NTSB Chairman Announces Two Senior Staff Designations


National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Deborah A.P.
Hersman this week filled two senior management positions at
the agency.

Dr. David L. Mayer was named Managing Director, the senior
career position at the Safety Board. Dr. Mayer has been
Deputy Managing Director since January 2005.

Mayer began his career at the Safety Board in 1991 in the
Office of Research and Engineering, where he was responsible
for transportation safety databases, and for the design and
management of safety studies. In 1996 he moved to the
Office of Aviation Safety, where he worked on a number of
the Board's investigations. He was extensively involved in
the investigation into the crash of TWA flight 800, being
responsible both for investigative data management and for
serving as chairman of the witnesses group. He also served
as Deputy Chief, and later Acting Chief, of the Human
Performance Division. He moved to the Managing Director's
Office in 2001.

Mayer was trained as a human factors specialist, and holds a
doctorate from Rice University in Houston, Texas.

Nancy Lewis has been named Director of Government Affairs.
As such she will be responsible for maintaining the agency's
relationship with the United States Congress and agencies of
the federal government. Lewis came to the NTSB in April
2005 as the Special Assistant to then Board Member Hersman.
Before coming to the Board, she worked in the Office of
General Counsel for the Transportation Security
Administration and for 13 years before that in the Office of
Chief Counsel at the Federal Railroad Administration. She
was detailed for a year by FRA to the Senate Committee on
Commerce, Science and Transportation.

Lewis is a graduate of the University of Southwestern
Louisiana and of Louisiana State University School of Law.

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