The FIA Foundation wins the 2009 Premier Award
The FIA Foundation has won the 2009 Premier Award from the Prince Michael International Road Safety Awards, for its advocacy role in promoting global road safety.
The award was presented by HRH Prince Michael of Kent to FIA Foundation Director General David Ward at the award scheme’s annual lunch at the Park Lane Hotel, London. In his citation, Prince Michael said:
“The FIA Foundation has focused its energy onto raising the world’s awareness of the vast scale of the road safety problem through its work in influencing governments, through the Commission for Global Road Safety and through its Make Roads Safe Campaign. Without the Foundation we would never had a Moscow Ministerial Conference and certainly no Decade of Action. The Foundation has achieved an outstanding amount. I am therefore delighted that this year my Premier Award goes to the FIA Foundation”.
David Ward commented: “We are delighted and honoured to receive the 2009 Premier Award. This year has been an important turning point for global road safety, with the historic Moscow Ministerial Conference calling for a Decade of Action for road safety, and Bloomberg Philanthropies becoming the first public heath foundation to make a really significant, multi million dollar, investment in road safety. To reach this stage has required a team effort by a large number of organisations and individuals, and the FIA Foundation has been pleased to play its part in this achievement”.
For more information on the Prince Michael International Road Safety Awards, please see www.roadsafetyawards.com