John de Pont

John James de Pont (born Auckland 9 February 1953), Ph.D (1984) Cambridge, is a New Zealand Research Engineer and is a leading New Zealand roading engineer.

Education
De Pont, who is of Dutch parentage, spent his childhood in Auckland and was educated at St Peter's College there (1964-1969) and at the University of Auckland where he completed his ME in 1977. He then obtained his Ph.D at Cambridge University in 1984.

Career
De Pont was a senior research scientist at the DSIR (1977-1992) and at Industrial Research Limited (1992-1997). He is Director of Engineering Research, Transport Engineering Research New Zealand Ltd (1997-). De pont's research has been involved with vehicle-infrastructure interaction, vehicle dynamics, road roughness, vehicle performance and safety, transport economics, logistics and sustainability. De pPont represented New Zealand on OECD scientific expert groups IR2 and IR6 and managed research element 1 of the OECD DIVINE project. He is the Treasurer and Vice-President for the Pacific region of the International Forum for Road Transport Technology and is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Heavy Vehicle Systems. De Pont received the New Zealand Science and Technology Medal 1995 for vehicle-road interaction research. He is a Member of the Royal Society of New Zealand.