Michael G. Dreznes served as the Executive Vice-President of the International Road Federation (IRF) from February 2012 until his retirement in December 2020. Prior to accepting his position at IRF, Dreznes was Vice-President of Barrier Systems Inc. for four years. Dreznes served as the Deputy Director General of the Washington Program Center of the International Road Federation (IRF) from July 2006 to February 2008. He worked as Vice- President at Quixote Corporation (Energy Absorption Systems, Inc.) for twenty years starting in 1986, when he was hired to create an international department for Quixote Corporation. Dreznes has spent the last thirty-seven years working to make the roads safe around the world. He is recognized as one of the world’s leading specialists on roadside safety promoting the concept of “Forgiving Roads,” and has conducted multiple road safety training seminars on roadside safety, work zone safety, vulnerable user safety and road safety audit in more than seventy countries around the world. Dreznes served as the Co-Chairman of the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration (UNRSC) Decade of Action Pillar 2: Safer Roads and Mobility Project Group. . He served as the Co-Chairman of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) AFB20 (2) Roadside Safety Sub-Committee on International Research Activities from 2000 to 2019. He is a member of the PIARC Road Safety Technical Committee 3.2 Design and Operation of Safer Road Infrastructure, a member of TASK FORCE 13 Committee on Work Zone Safety, Staff Advisor to the IRF Road Safety Working Group as well as Immediate Past Chairman of the IRF Fellowship Educational Foundation (IREF). In January 2015, Dreznes was named the winner of the TRB AFB20 Roadside Safety Design Kenneth Stonex Lifetime Achievement Award. In September 2020, the Puerto Rico Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP) named Dreznes the recipient of the 2020 Road Safety International Ambassador Award In 2021, ASIRT (Association for Safe International Road Travel) honored Dreznes with their Leadership in Road Safety Technology and Education Award.