Niels de Boer is Chief Operating Officer and Snr Programme Director for Future Mobility in the Energy Research Institute within Nanyang Technological University doing research on low carbon mobility solutions and Snr Programme Director for Centre of Testing and Research of Autonomous Vehicles – NTU (CETRAN), which is tasked by the Singapore Land Transport Authority to develop technical standards and regulations to enable trial testing and deployment of Autonomous Vehicles on public roads. He was convenor for Technical Reference 68 Autonomous vehicles – Part 2 : Safety.