Saving lives beyond 2025: lessons from Marrakech conference
The 4th Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety took place in Marrakech, Morocco, on 18–20 February 2025. For the second time, the Swedish Transport Administration convened the Academic Expert Group (AEG2) to develop a new set of recommendations to further accelerate the progress. Building on the broad ideas introduced in the first AEG report, the new recommendations more explicitly point out specific sectors, actors, roles, and actions that can result in near-term change in road safety globally. These recommendations build on the outcomes of the conference in Stockholm (2020), and aim to make a tangible contribution to achieving the target of a 50 percent reduction in global road fatalities and injuries by 2023.
In this talk, Maria Krafft and Claes Tingvall, both the core members of the Academic Expert Group, share their insights from the Marrakech conference and discuss what the new expert recommendations mean for the broader traffic safety community.
About the speakers
Since 2015, Maria Krafft is Director of Traffic Safety at the Swedish Transport Administration. Before that she was the head of the division for Traffic Safety Research and Environment at Folksam, a Swedish insurance company.
Maria completed her PhD in 1998 at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, and since 2010 she is Associate Professor at Umeå University. Maria is a member of the Academic Expert Group for the 3rd (2020) and 4th (2025) Global Ministerial Conferences on Road Safety. For the 4th conference, she acts also as a member of the High-Level Consultative Committee.
Claes Tingvall is retired from the Swedish Transport Administration where he was Director of Traffic Safety until 2015. Claes Tingvall has a PhD from Karolinska Institute in Sweden (DrMedSc) and a DSc h.c. from Emory University in Atlanta. He is an Adjunct Professor at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, as well as Monash University Accident Research Centre, Australia. Claes Tingvall was instrumental in developing Vision Zero from the very beginning. He has published in injury epidemiology, safety rating and safety management.
When and how
Friday, 9 May 2025
15:00-16:00 CET (time convertor)
Format: Zoom webinar/meeting
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