Nicole Rosie has had a 20-year executive career at Board, CE and Senior Executive level across the public and private sector. She has passion for roles that link care for people with economic outcomes having deep experience in transformative change, systems thinking, high-risk regulated industries and health. safety and environment. Joining NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi as Chief Executive in February 2020, she brought with her more than two decades of CE and senior executive experience, including leadership roles at Toll NZ, KiwiRail, Vector, Fonterra and three years as CE of Worksafe. She currently holds or has held a number of governance roles including being a Director of Auckland Transport and the Establishment Unit for Light Rail Auckland, and a steering committee member of the New Zealand Construction Accord and Let’s Get Wellington Moving. Originally from Gisborne, Nicole studied at the University of Otago and University of Auckland graduating with a First Class Master of Laws degree and undergraduate degrees in Law and Arts. In 2002 she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to the USA to undertake a Master of Public Health degree at Harvard. Nicole has been a nationally ranked tennis player and is a mother of four teenagers. She is passionate about making a difference and sees the land transport system and the critical roles NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi plays across infrastructure, climate change and mode shift, regulation and safety as being at the heart of a successful New Zealand.