NTSB chairman Mark Rosenker focuses on ‘smarter’
Mark Rosenker was sworn in as the 11th chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board on August 11 after serving as acting chairman since March 2005.

Mark Rosenker was sworn in as the 11th chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board on August 11 after serving as acting chairman since March 2005. A major general in the Air Force Reserve, he was deputy assistant to the President and director of the White House Military Office before becoming a member of the NTSB in March 2003.

Before his White House appointment, Rosenker was managing director of the Washington, D.C. office for the United Network for Organ Sharing. Before joining that organization, he served 23 years as v-p of public affairs for the Electronic Industries Alliance. His interest and experience in transportation safety date back more than three decades to his time at a major national public affairs organization.