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Chris is Deputy Director Aviation Infrastructure and Personnel with the Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand (CAA). In this rolehe has executive accountability for oversight of aviation security and air traffic management within New Zealand. Chris has been with the CAA since 2004 after an earlier career with New Zealand Police. He represented New Zealand on the ICAO Aviation Security Panel from 2004 to 2012 and was Panel Vice Chair in 2012 before stepping aside to take up his current executive management role.
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Per Haugaardis Director at the European Commission's Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport (DG MOVE). He is responsible for overall EU transport policy coordination and security. He oversees inter-institutional relations, communication, economic analysis, international issues and legal matters.
Previously, he worked at the European Commission's Secretariat-General, where he was in charge of the EU's contribution to G7 and G20 and European foreign policy, providing advice to the Commission's President and Vice-Presidents. Before that, he was the Permanent Representative of the Commission to the EU Political and Security Committee.
He has extensive experience in the area of policymaking and advising members of the European Commission. He was a member of the Cabinet of EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson and of EU Enterprise and Information Society Commissioner Erkki Liikanen.
Before joining the Commission, he was a private practicing lawyer in Brussels and Copenhagen. He has law degrees from the universitiesof Copenhagen and Oslo and from the College of Europe in Bruges.
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Filip Cornelis has been Director for Aviation (DG MOVE Directorate E) in the European Commission, in charge of aviation, since October 2017. He joined the European Commission in 1994. After a posting abroad, he worked in the Task Force for Accession Negotiations. He then led the Commission team drafting the Treaties of Accession for the 12 new EU Member States.
In January 2006, Filip Cornelis moved on to transport policy by joining the Office of the Director General for Energy and Transport, Matthias Ruete. He was the leading member of the Office from 2008. He was then appointed head of unit for Aviation Security in the European Commission in September 2010. He moved on to become head of unit for Aviation Safety from December 2012 until October 2016. He subsequently became head of unit for Aviation Policy until his appointment as Director for Aviation.