Anthony Lam is a Transportation Safety Specialist for the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).Anthony's mission to improve aviation safety took flight as a private pilot, ignited by witnessing the aftermath of Dr. Casey Daggett's fatal air accident in 2009 at his local airport on a chance encounter while attending the University of California, Davis. This transformative experience led Anthony to apply and be selected to intern for the NTSB’s Office of Aviation Safety in 2010, where he began as an air accident investigative assistant in the agency, supporting air accident investigations for the Eastern Region both on-scene and in the office. Anthony was awarded for outstanding service to the NTSB for his internship term by NTSB Chairman Deborah Hersman.Determined to leverage his bilingual skills, Anthony spent the next 13 years in Asia, championing aviation safety best practices as the editor-in-chief for a bilingual general aviation magazine, including collaborating with the NTSB on aviation safety editorial. While leading Asia’s business aviation advocacy group years later, Anthony spearheaded regional aviation safety summits, conferences, roundtables, advocacy events, and numerous aviation safety initiatives at the stakeholder and legislative levels across Asia. These included aviation safety events keynoted by the NTSB.Currently based at the NTSB headquarters in Washington, D.C., Anthony is an avid FAA-licensed private pilot rated in both fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft, including in seaplanes and gyroplanes. He earned his bachelor’s degree in music from UC Davis. A San Francisco native raised in British-colonial Hong Kong and seasoned by Shanghai, Anthony speaks English and Cantonese fluently, with Mandarin and Taiwanese in his repertoire.
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