Iain Cameron

Iain Cameron has over 30 years of public sector policy, strategy and leadership experience in school and tertiary education, public health, drug strategy, transport, roads and road safety.

Mr Cameron has been the managing director at the department of transport since November 2018. Prior to that, he was the executive director of the Office of Road Safety in the Western Australian State Government from 2000 to 2015. Mr Cameron led the development of Towards Zero, the Western Australian Government’s ambitious strategy to reduce serious crashes by at least 40% by 2020 using the Safe System approach launched in 2008. The rate of road deaths fell from 11.3 per 100,000 population in 2000 to 6.4 in 2013.

He is an independent director on the board of the Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP); chair of the Austroads National Road Safety Task Force coordinating research, policy and strategy advice to Australian and New Zealand Ministers; and chair of the OECD/ITF Working Group on Implementing the Safe System.

Mr Cameron has tertiary qualifications in education, health promotion and a Masters in Public Health. He is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

In December 2014, Mr Cameron was awarded a Fellow of the Australian College of Road Safety by the Governor General of Australia for his significant contributions to road safety locally, nationally and internationally.