Dr. Rosekind is currently a strategic advisor and Board Director for multiple organizations. Previously, he was the Chief Safety Innovation Officer at Zoox, an Amazon-owned autonomous mobility company from 2017-2022. He also was appointed the Distinguished Policy Scholar in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health for 2020-2022.

In 2014, Dr. Rosekind was appointed by President Obama, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate, as the 15th Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), serving until 2017. While at NHTSA, his initiatives included an industry agreement that made automatic emergency braking (AEB) standard equipment on new cars, the development and issuance of the first-ever Federal Automated Vehicles Policy, and aggressive oversight of safety in the automobile industry, including leading the Agency through the nation’s largest product safety recall in U.S history.

Before becoming NHTSA Administrator, Dr. Rosekind was appointed by President Obama, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate, and served as the 40th member of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) from 2010 until 2014. He was the on-scene board member for seven major transportation accidents and participated in almost 50 accident Board Meetings. He advanced the Agency’s advocacy goals on substance-impaired driving, fatigue, fire safety, and rail mass transit.

Prior to his appointment to the NTSB, Dr. Rosekind founded Alertness Solutions, a scientific consulting firm that specialized in fatigue management, and served as the company’s first president and chief scientist. Before founding Alertness Solutions, he directed the Fatigue Countermeasures Program at the NASA Ames Research Center and was chief of the Aviation Operations Branch in the Flight Management and Human Factors Division. He launched his professional career as the director of the Center for Human Sleep Research at the Stanford University Sleep Disorders and Research Center.

Dr. Rosekind is an internationally recognized expert on human fatigue, credited with leading the field in innovative research and implementing programs in all modes of transportation. His work has been widely published, and his awards include the NASA Exceptional Service Medal and six additional NASA group/team awards, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Sleep Foundation, the Mark O. Hatfield Award for Public Policy from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, two Flight Safety Foundation honors, the 2015 Automotive News All Stars industry leader of the year, and Fellow of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Dr. Rosekind earned his A.B. with honors from Stanford University, his M.S., M.Phil., and Ph.D. from Yale University, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Brown University Medical School.