Chief Operating Officer
Australian Road Research Board (ARRB)

Dr Richard Yeo has over 30 years research and management experience in the roads sector. He is the Chief Operating Officer for the Australian Road Research Board with oversight of national research programs covering Future Transport Systems, Transport Safety, Future Transport Infrastructure, Sustainability and Resilience, Asset Management and Data Collection. Richard has held key roles with Austroads and VicRoads as well as in commercial private sector consulting. He is an Adjunct Professor (Practice) with Monash University and maintains close involvement with initiatives such as Industrial Transformation Hubs and other academic research. Richard is involved in several national and international standards committees covering topics of asset management and digital engineering.

Richard graduated from Monash University in 1988 (BE (Hons)) and he completed his Master of Engineering in the area of construction quality at RMIT University in 2000. Richard continued his research and completed his Doctor of Philosophy in 2012 while progressing to General Manager Research and Development and Executive Manager with ARRB. In his recent role as Program Manager with Austroads he had oversight of the national research programs covering road technology for pavements, surfacings, bridges, tunnels, project delivery and asset management. He was appointed as Chief Operating Officer with ARRB, the national transport research organisation, in April 2018.

Richard’s main areas of technical expertise are in asset management, materials technology, pavement structures and performance applied to the transport infrastructure.