Name Mark Rosekind | Role Corporate Consultant | |
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Alma mater Stanford UniversityYale UniversityBrown University Medical School Education | ||
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Mark Rosekind is the 15th Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). He started in December 2014, replacing David L. Strickland who resigned in January 2014. NHTSA was run by David J. Friedman, the deputy administrator, in the intervening time.
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- Dr mark rosekind member national transportation safety board
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Dr mark rosekind member national transportation safety board
Personal Life
Rosekind was born in San Francisco in 1955. In 1958 his father, a motorcycle policeman, died in the line of duty while chasing a speeding vehicle.
In 1977, he completed his undergraduate degree at Stanford. In 1987, he earned his doctoral degree in psychology from Yale and then continued his education with two years of post-doctoral work at Brown University Medical School.
Career
From 1990 to 1997, Rosekind worked at NASA as part of the Fatigue Countermeasures Group and eventually as the group's director. In 1997, Rosekind started a consulting company called Alertness Solutions which focused on providing sleep and alertness strategies to a wide variety of professions.
In June 2010, Rosekind was appointed as a board member to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and served there until December 2014. As a member of the NTSB, he was on-scene for seven major transportation accidents including the Midland train crash.
Prior to Rosekind's appointment, NHTSA had been considered by some as "tentative in taking action, slow to identify problems and reluctant to use its full legal powers against the industry it regulates." In his first few months of office, he lead major investigations of Fiat Chrysler and Takata Corporation and extended oversight of General Motors' safety operations. These efforts and others have lead to the largest vehicle recall in history. In contrast to the prior characterizations of NHTSA, Rosekind's brief tenure has been considered "aggressive" with respect to pursuing issues and taking action. The automobile industry has responded positively to this and Automotive News awarded Rosekind with 2015's Industry Leader of The Year (a distinction typically reserved for auto industry executives).