Nicole Rosie | CEO
National Heavy Vehicle Regulator

Nicole Rosie Chief Executive Officer, National Heavy Vehicle Regulator Nicole Rosie joined the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR) as Chief Executive Officer in June 2025 and brings over 20-years’ experience in Chief Executive and senior management roles across the public and private sector. Passionate about making a difference, Nicole has been drawn to roles that link economic success with care for people. As a natural system thinker and integrator, Nicole’s career has been focused on aligning interests across systems, organisations and the public and private sector to support a flourishing society that looks after all people now, and for future generations. Since moving to Australia in 2025, Nicole has joined the Queensland Ministerial Freight Council at the invitation of the Queensland Transport Minister and completed an AICD Company Director’s course. Prior to joining the NHVR, Nicole served as the Chief Executive of New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) Waka Kotahi. Nicole’s experience also includes three years as Chief Executive of WorkSafe, New Zealand (NZ National Health and Safety Regulator) and senior executive roles in Fonterra, KiwiRail/Toll NZ, Vector and Fletcher Challenge Forests. Over her five-year period in the NZTA role, NZ saw significant changes in transport priorities with three government policy statements on transport and significant pivots in transport priorities. Transformation changes were also made in the regulatory, safety and digital functions of NZTA with modern platforms put in place to manage pricing, tolling, public transport and network management and utilisation. Through her period in the role, NZ also saw improvements in transport safety and a reduction in national emissions transport emissions with NZTA leading the implementation of government transport decarbonisation initiatives such as the clean car scheme. Nicole has a Master of Public Health in law and public health from Harvard University, which she attended as a NZ Fulbright scholar. A Master of Law from Auckland university jointly supervised by the medical and law schools and Law and Arts degrees from Otago university.