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Dinko Staničić graduated as a civil aviation engineer in 2003 from the Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences at the University of Zagreb.
He started working in the Croatian Ministry of the Sea, Transport and Infrastructure in February 2005 and has held various positions in the administration: expert associate in the Personnel Licensing Department, head of the International Affairs Division, acting DGCA, and since April 2012 he is the director of the Civil Aviation Sector.
He is head of the Croatian delegation in the governing bodies of EUROCONTROL, ECAC, EASA, ABIS, EUSPA and ICAO.
He has been chairman of the National Airspace Management Committee since July 2010, and chairman of the National Civil Aviation Security Committee and member of the Aviation Safety Management Committee since May 2022.
Mr Staničić also held various positions in supervisory and audit boards of SOCs in the aviation sector (Croatia Control, Osijek Airport).
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Raquel Chinea leads the Cybersecurity, Technical equipment and Risk Analysis Department within the Spanish Civil Aviation Authority (AESA), which is the appropriate authority in Spain for the purposes of EC Regulation 300/2008.
Raquel has worked in aviation throughout her career, initially in safety analysis within the national ANSP, addressing cargo and supplies security, and finally focusing on AVSEC risk analysis.
Raquel is currently chair of ECAC’s Common Evaluation Process Management Group, which assesses security equipment against ECAC/EU performance standards, vice-chair of ICAO´s Working Group Threat and Risk, and a member of the Safer Skies Consultative Committee.
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Born in Madrid in 1971, David Benito Astudillo holds a degree in aeronautical engineering and is a career civil servant. After serving in various positions since 2010 at the Spanish Aviation Safety and Security Agency (AESA) and the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, in 2022 he was appointed as the director general of civil aviation and president of AESA.
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Levan Karanadze was appointed as counsellor to the first vice prime minister of Georgia (minister of economy) and chairman of the Supervisory Council of SAKAERONAVIGATSIA ltd (Georgian ANSP) in October 2022. In his previous roles, he held various managerial positions in the Georgian CAA including as director from December 2018 to October 2022.
Before joining the aviation authority, Levan worked as an en-route air traffic controller for several years in SAKAERONAVIGATSIA and still keeps his ATCO licence valid.
Levan holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Georgian Aviation University. As an associate professor, Levan has been an air law lecturer for pilot students at the Georgian Aviation University.
Levan served as vice-president of the 40th ICAO Assembly in 2019. He was also president of EUROCONTROL’s Permanent Commission in 2023 and vice-president of the Provisional Council from 2020-2023. He is chair of the ICAO European Region Aviation System Planning Group (EASPG).