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Marc Hamy is currently the vice president of corporate affairs at Airbus. He is an alumnus of the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) de la rue d’Ulm and a civil aviation engineer, with a postgraduate diploma from the French national school for civil aviation (ENAC) and a master’s degree from the University of Paris Dauphine.

He has a background in aviation, transport, economy, and politics, with many senior executive positions.

He has served in the following positions: deputy chief financial officer of DSNA, the French air navigation services provider; general manager of the two air traffic control centres of the south of France; director of the civil aviation authority in the French Pacific territories; chief executive officer (CEO) of DSNA (8000 employees and a turnover of 1 billion Euros a year); chief of staff of the French Minister for Transports; deputy chief of staff of the Minister for Energy, Transport, and Environment; chief operating officer of Airbus ProSky; chief of staff of the Airbus CEO, vice president of Air Transport and Public Affairs, and finally vice president corporate affairs at Airbus SAS.

He is a founding member of the SESAR Joint undertaking, and of the EGNOS SSP, and contributed to create Airbus ProSky in 2010, three companies developing new technologies and services in aviation and space. He is holder of the Legion of Honour, of the National Order of Merit, and of the Medal of Aeronautics.

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Donal Handley is head of government affairs with AerCap. Based in Brussels, Donal engages with all parts of the aviation value chain, including European and global policymakers as well as aviation stakeholders. Prior to joining AerCap, Donal was chief of staff at EUROCONTROL, where he was responsible for overseeing and coordinating the implementation of the director general's mandate. He held various positions with the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) between 2004 and 2017 and previously worked for IATA, based in London and with Aer Lingus based in Dublin.

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Kåre Halvorsen joined the Norwegian Safety Investigation Authority as senior technical investigator in 1998 and has been Director of Air Accidents / Chief Inspector in the Aviation Department since 2012. From June 2020 this also includes military aviation as well as being the coordinator of all activities relating to military investigations.

Kåre has been working mainly within the aviation sector since 1987. This work was chiefly related to maintenance, repair, development, and production, both for civilian and military aviation. His educational background is an MCs (Civil Engineer) with a specializing in material science/metallurgy, manufacturing, maintenance, and quality assurance.

During his period at the Safety Investigation Authority the organsisation has developed from investigating aviation accidents and incidents only, to becoming a multimodal organisation. Some of Kåre’s responsibilities in this respect has also been as an advisor for developing new national legislation for the different new domains and incorporate these domains into the organisation.

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David Nieto is Director of Airports and Aviation Security in AESA, the Spanish civil aviation authority, since 2018 and member of management board of the Agency since 2013. He was also Director of safety of airports and air navigation in AESA from 2013 to 2018.

David has large experience in complex projects in aviation, in particular with airports and air navigation systems. Those including implementation of aviation cybersecurity framework in Spain, certification of the national network of airports and navigation services providers, oversight over the liberalization of national air traffic services, supervision over aviation security oversight in Spain.