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Kas Beumkes was the Dutch Safety Board MH17 crash investigation project manager and has more than 25 years’ experience in aircraft accident investigation. He was seconded in 2017-2018 to ICAO to assist with the working programme on conflict zones. Since 2019, Kas has been working for the Netherlands Ministry of Infrastructure. He is vice-chair of the national expert group sharing conflict zone information with national airlines, chair of the Expert Group on Risk Information overflying Conflict Zones (EGRICZ), and co-chair of the Safer Skies Consultative Committee (SSCC). Kas obtained a commercial pilot’s licence during his career, has BSc degrees in both aeronautical and industrial engineering, and a master’s degree in management of safety, health and environment.
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Joery Strijtveen joined Royal Schiphol Group in 2014. Together with his team he oversees all government and community affairs. He is also a member of Amsterdam Airport Schiphol’s internal crisis management organisation. Joery holds a degree in political science from Leiden University. Before joining Schiphol he worked as a public affairs consultant in The Hague and Brussels.
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David McMillan is a director of London’s Gatwick Airport. He was previously director general of EUROCONTROL, the United Kingdom’s director general for civil aviation, and a vice president of ECAC. He has also served as chair of the Flight Safety Foundation and the ATM Policy Institute.
David started his career in the diplomatic service and served in Morocco, Zimbabwe and the United States, where he was transport secretary for five years.
David is a Fellow of both the Royal Aeronautical Society and the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport; and a correspondent of the Académie de l’Air et de l’Espace.
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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).