Robyn Robertson is President and CEO of the Traffic Injury Research Foundation (TIRF), a charitable, independent road safety institute. Ms. Robertson has worked on numerous projects focusing on the justice system, impaired driving, repeat offenders, fatigue, technologies and persistent traffic offenders. Before joining TIRF, Robyn worked for the Solicitor General of Canada and Members of Parliament in the areas of correctional policy and legislation.
She has published more than 40 major reports and articles in traffic safety and criminal justice journals. Most notably, she is co-principal investigator of a comprehensive, multi-year study on DWI System Improvements, which aims to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the justice system for dealing with hard core drinking drivers. Ms. Robertson has made more than 100 presentations at national, state, and local criminal justice and traffic safety conferences, including a criminal justice summit on impaired driving hosted by the National Criminal Justice Association. She has also presented to an expert panel of judges responsible for developing a national curriculum for judges, and served as an expert on impaired driving during a summit hosted by the National Judicial College. Robyn has also developed and maintains an international inventory of ignition interlock programs, an inventory on young drivers and a curriculum on alcohol ignition interlocks programs.
Robyn has nine years of experience in the academic field, teaching part-time at the University of Ottawa, and Algonquin College in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Her courses have included criminological theory, criminal and civil law, the Canadian criminal justice system, victimology, crime prevention, and crime and the media. Ms. Robertson is a member of the Board of Directors, American Probation and Parole Association (APPA).