Dr Adewole Adesiyun, FEHRL, Deputy Secretary General He was the Research Area Leader for Safety & Security for the Research Coordinators of FEHRL from 2006 to 2008. He was the coordinator of the European Commission project, PILOT4SAFETY, which aimed at using the framework of the Directive 2008/96/EC on road infrastructure safety management as a template for safety applications on secondary roads.
	Xavier Cocu, BRRC, Senior researcher In 1997, Xavier Cocu obtained an engineering degree at the rural engineering department of the Agricultural University of Gembloux (Belgium). After some years as research assistant at the university, he joined the Belgian Road Research Centre (BRRC) as a researcher in 2001 and specialized in winter road maintenance, traffic analysis and road safety related issues.  Since 2001, Xavier has been the author or coauthor of several articles related to road infrastructure safety and safety management tools.  He has been involved in international research projects, the more recent being the EU FP6 INTRO (INTelligent Roads), the ERA-NET ROAD project SPACE (Speed Adaption Control by self-Explaining roads), the EU project PILOT4SAFETY (where he was responsible for the training activities dedicated to road safety audits and inspections, the on-going ERA-NET ROAD project STARs (Scoring Traffic At Road works). He is currently looking forward to develop the BRRC activities around road infrastructure safety (applied research, consultancy and international contacts).  Beside an involvement in national working or consultancy  groups (like the Walloon Council on Road Safety), he is also member of the PIARC TC on Design and Operation of Safer Road Infrastructure and since 05/2012 FEHRL Research Area Leader Safety & Security.
	Carlo Polidori, C&S, transport engineer and has worked for 17 years in a engineering consulting firm in Italy; he is an expert evaluator for transport projects since 1999; during the FP6 project "Ripcord-Iserest" he was responsible for the "Safety Handbook for Secondary Roads”. Carlo now lives in Brussels as a freelance consultant and is the Secretary of the Italian Association of Road Safety Professionals (AIPSS); in 2009 he promoted an initiative for a pilot application of the European Directive on road infrastructure safety management, which led to Pilot4Safety project, funded by the DG Move and started on 1st of June 2010 and successfully terminated on July 2012
	Peter Saleh, AIT, Researcher and project manager in the business field Transportation Infrastructure Technologies at AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Mobility Department with the main focus on road transport planning, road safety planning, accident statistics and crash-causes-research. Previous work on EU projects, e.g. PILOT4SAFETY, 2-BE-SAFE, INTRO, CVIS, Supreme and national projects, e.g. VIIS, MARVin, Cooperative Systems and Highway. He is member of the Austrian Association for Research on Roads – Rail – Transport (FSV), member and expert in the Austrian Standards Institute (ON) and national delegate in CEN - TC 226/WG1 – motorcycle safety and PIARC TC 3.2 (Design and Operations of Safer Road Infrastructure). Regarding the EC-directives on infrastructure management, he is a certified road safety auditor and inspector.
	Petr Pokorný, CDV In 2000, Petr Pokorný, Transport research Centre (CDV), obtained an engineering degree at the department of Civil engineering at the Technical University of Brno in the Czech republic. He has been working in CDV in the Department of Traffic Engineering and Road Safety since 2002. He specialises in the issues regarding safe infrastructure and safety of vulnerable road users. He is co-author of the national guidelines for traffic calming in residential areas and the author of national guidelines for conducting road safety audits. He has been involved in several international research projects (e.g. ROSEBUD – CBA of road safety measures, RIPCORD – ISEREST – safety of secondary roads, GUIDEMAPS – public participation in decision making, PILOT4SAFETY – safety audits and inspections on secondary roads). He spent six months (in 2006/2007) working in consultancy company Traffix in Christchurch, New Zealand, where he was involved in projects regarding cycle planning.
	Kris  Redant, BRRC, Senior researcher After +10 years of experience with the certification and verification of construction products, Kris joined BRRC in 2004.  Initially being responsible for standardization and certification activities of BRRC, this quickly developed to a closer involvement to BRRC's activities in the road safety domain; mainly due to the standardization work of CEN/TC226 (Road Equipment) and the unneglectable influence of these products on road safety. For several years, Kris is member of CEN/TC226 and secretary of the Belgian mirror group. He  contributed as an expert to the ETSC PRAISE Thematic Report 6  “Road Safety at Work Zones” and is a.o. currently active within the STARS Project (http://stars.zag.si), an ERF working group on work zone safety and an OECD/ITF working group on PTW safety.
	Olivier Van Damme, BRRC, Researcher In 2003, Olivier Van Damme obtained an engineering degree at the bio-engineering department of the Catholic University of Louvain-La-Neuve (Belgium). Olivier has first been working as researcher in charge of mobility studies in a design and consultancy office.  He later joined a non-profit organization as an adviser on accessibility issues on buildings and pedestrian itineraries.  Finally he joined the Belgian Road Research Centre (BRRC) in 2007 as a researcher in mobility specialized in soft transport modes; Olivier has been the author or coauthor of several articles and reference works and best practice guides for road managers in this field. He is also currently concerned by specific studies on freight at national and international levels.
	Andreas Hegewald, BASt, Scientific Researcher In 2006, Andreas Hegewald obtained an engineering degree at the Transport Planning and Road Traffic Department  of the Dresden University of Technology (Germany). Directly after the studies he started working as a scientific researcher at the German Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt). He has been involved in several international research projects (e.g. Ripcord-Iserest, 2BeSafe, Pilot4Safety) as well as national projects aiming in improving road safety on rural roads (e.g. Tools to carry out road safety inspections,  Further development of procedures to evaluate road safety measures). At present he is working to obtain a PhD degree. The subject of his doctoral thesis is a multivariate analysis of run off the road motorcycle crashes.