Apisai Ketenilagi

Mr. Apisai Ketenilagi serves as Chief Executive Officer of the Fiji Roads Authority, where he leads national programs in road infrastructure development, capital investment, and maintenance. A civil engineer by profession, he brings over 30 years of expertise in planning, design, construction, supervision, and asset management of transport infrastructure across Fiji. 

Achieving the Sustainable Development Goal on Halving Road Deaths and Injuries: Impacts and the Role of Infrastructure

Among one of the most challenging targets under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is the target to halve the number of global deaths and injuries from road traffic accidents by 2020. The inclusion of road safety in the SDGs is belated recognition that road crashes lead to appallingly high numbers of death and debilitating injury, which places a huge cost to development, society, and the economy. This interactive workshop examined the safety and economic benefits of achieving the said SDG target and assessed the role that road infrastructure can play in advancing road safety.