UN Special Envoy for Road Safety

Jean Todt, UN Special Envoy for Road Safety and President of the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), addresses a press conference on the establishment of a Road Safety trust fund. 12 April 2018.
UN Photo/Mark Garten

Former ‘Mr. Speed’, Jean Todt, looks to cut road death ‘pandemic’ in developing world

8 August 2021
Interviews

More than a million people die on the roads each year, and up to 50 million are injured. Jean Todt, the UN Special Envoy for Road Safety, and the president of the FIA, the body which governs world motorsport, is committed to driving that number down.

Speaking to UN News’s Conor Lennon, during the New York leg of the Formula E electric racing championship, Mr. Todt said the solutions for improving road safety are well known, but they need to be put into place. 

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Jean Todt, UN Special Envoy for Road Safety and President of the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), addresses the opening of the Global Road Safety Film Festival held in Geneva on 20-21 February, 2017.
UN Photo/Violaine Martin

‘Absolutely essential’ to put road safety top of developing countries’ agenda: UN envoy

13 October 2018
Interviews

With 90 per cent of road-related injuries and fatalities occurring in developing countries, it is “absolutely essential” for those countries to put road safety on top of their agenda.  That’s the message from the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Road Safety, Jean Todt, who spoke with UN News's Florence Westergard earlier this year about how important road safety is to global development and what can be done to improve it.

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Collage of photos of Jean Todt (top), UN Special Envoy for Road Safety; (l to r) Saul Billingsley, FIA Foundation; and Olga Algayerova, UNECE.
UN News/Matt Wells

New fund takes on 'public health emergency' of global road deaths

18 April 2018
The Lid is On

For this latest Lid Is On podcast from UN News, we’ll hear from three of the leading voices involved in the new UN Road Safety Trust Fund, launched this month, which is committed to “accelerating progress” in saving the lives of pedestrians, drivers, and cyclists across the world.

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UN Special Envoy for Road Safety Jean Todt in the UN SDG Studio Geneva.
UN Photo/Emmanuel Hungrecker

1.25 million road deaths must be stopped: UN Envoy

21 September 2017
General News

Every year, well over 1.2 million people are killed in traffic accidents, but efforts are under way to bring down that number dramatically, a top motorsports executive and senior UN official has said.

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