Britta is GRSP’s Senior Manager of Global Road Safety Programmes and based in Geneva. In this role, she oversees a range of road safety initiatives in LMICs across Asia, Latin America and Africa, including a Road Policing Capacity Building Programme, a Road Safety Grants Programme supporting advocacy efforts for better road safety legislation, and the delivery of road safety leadership courses in partnership with Johns Hopkins University.  

Britta’s background is in traffic psychology, and she has over 20 years of experience in the mitigation of transport risk. Britta has worked with government agencies and the private sector in the Middle East, Europe and Far East towards improving the safety and efficiency of traffic through the development and delivery of evidence-led road safety strategies and programmes.

Britta worked for ten years out of the UAE, lasty as Chief Specialist responsible for driver training, testing and licensing at the Dubai Roads and Transport Authority. In her 12 years with the British Transport Research Laboratory, she covered different management roles in the UK and the UAE. Britta began her professional career as an academic working on driver impairment studies and simulator-based training at the University of Wuerzburg in Germany. She obtained her PhD at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland.