Hans de Haan

Active in ATC/ATM since 1991. Started at ATC the Netherlands as integration and project manager.

Working since 2005 for EUROCONTROL in the security, safety, and crisis management related areas.

Member of the NATO-EUROCONTROL ATM Security Coordination group and the Advisory Council for Aviation Research in Europe (Working Group 4: Safety and Security)

Course manager for contingency and crisis management training courses at the EUROCONTROL Aviation Learning Centre in Luxembourg.

Since 2016 member of the EUROCONTROL Network Manager Crisis Management team.

Secretary of the European Aviation Crisis Coordination Cell (EACCC)

Co-author of ICAO EUR Doc 031

Mike Slack

Mike Slack is the Vice-President (Air Traffic Control) for the New Zealand Airline Pilots’ Association. Mike is a currently an operational tower controller at New Zealand’s primary international port (Auckland International Airport NZAA) and has in excess of 28 years air traffic control experience. Mike has held elected positions within NZALPA (on both the ATC Council and Board of Management) for most of his years as an ATCO including at least 3 terms as VP ATC (formerly known as ATC Director). Mike is also an aviation fanatic having held a Private Pilot’s License since 17yrs of age and is currently Vice-President of the NZ Aerobatic Club operating and competitng in a high-performance competition aerobatic aircraft – Mike is a past national aerobatic champion.

Mike Reed

Mike is the Vice-Chair of Prospect’s ATCOs’ Branch, the union representing almost 100% of the air traffic controllers working in the UK along with several hundred other employees in ATM across the country. He is an operational ATCO qualified for 30 years in Terminal Control at London Centre, controlling in the airspace over London and the South East of England.

Mike is a board member of the Alliance and has been active in the union since 2007, holding various positions including Chair of his unit Section and Chair of both Terms & Conditions and Working Practices. With a particular focus on fatigue and FRMS systems, he has extensive experience in negotiating new rostering patterns and resourcing agreements to help facilitate service and project delivery at both tower and radar centre facilities.

Andrew Cook

Professor Andrew Cook is Director of the Centre for Air Traffic Management Research at the University of Westminster, London. He has been engaged in transport research since 1989, specialising in ATM from 1999 – coordinating and leading work across 35 major European ATM research projects. These have been primarily funded through SESAR, EUROCONTROL and the European Commission, and carried out in collaboration with airlines, airports, ANSPs, software/service providers, and other research institutes. Andrew specialises in applied/industrial research, performance assessment and intermodal applications. He has acted as economic advisor and scientific evaluator for industry and national government, is a member of numerous international scientific committees and boards, including the SESAR 3 JU Scientific Committee, and is a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society.

Kelly Richardson

Andrew LeBovidge

Andrew LeBovidge, a 30-year veteran air traffic controller, is the Executive Vice President for the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA). NATCA is a labor union and aviation safety organization that represents nearly 20,000 highly skilled air traffic controllers, engineers, and other aviation safety professionals, with 15 bargaining units within the Federal Aviation Administration, several Department of Defense air traffic facilities, and 123 privately operated federal contract towers within the United States. NATCA is also a member of the Global Air Traffic Controllers Alliance, a coalition of labor unions which recognizes that Air Traffic Management is a global industry and works together to meet individual and shared challenges while raising important issues to a worldwide audience by developing and cultivating global relationships.

Mr. LeBovidge started his air traffic control career at Houston Air Route Traffic Control Center in 1992 and has served as a representative for NATCA since 1998, first at the local level, and then as a Regional Vice President for NATCA’s Southwest Region from 2015-2021. He served on the 2009 collective bargaining agreement negotiating team, the National Academies of Science Committee for Study of Federal Aviation Administration Air Traffic Controller Staffing, the FAA Independent Review Panel on the Selection, Assignment and Training of Air Traffic Control Specialists, and on a number of other collaborative workgroups with the FAA. He was appointed to the Federal Aviation Administration’s Advanced Aviation Advisory Committee by the U.S. Secretary of Transportation in October 2022. Mr. LeBovidge is also currently serving on the FAA’s Mental Health and Aviation Medical Clearances Aviation Rulemaking Committee.

Frank Wobith

Safety and Compliance Manager, Founder of an Swiss Business Aviation Safety Forum, Pilot, IOSA Lead Auditor

Hugues De Beco

Hugues de Beco has 36 years’ experience in the aerospace industry, in particular in Aircraft Systems. He started as an avionics engineer in Sextant Avionics (Thales) in 1987 and then joined Airbus in 1992. Hugues has been in various positions in Aircraft systems in Engineering, Procurement and Program Management. Hugues is now heading the Multi Program Projects & Air Traffic Management organization in Airbus.

Fredrik Lindblom

With twenty years of experience Fredrik has worked on projects related to A-SMGCS, TWR Automation, Airport Collaborative Decision Making, Arrival and Departure Management, as well as Digital & Remote Towers.

Fredrik has practical A-CDM and DMAN implementation experience from writing related operational procedures and guiding the stakeholder community at airports towards successful implementations. He also has extensive experience in conducting A-CDM training and workshops and has, up till today, educated over one thousand A-CDM users.

A former Co-Chair of CANSO’s ATFM/A-CDM Working Group from 2015 to 2022 Fredrik has supported, on behalf of CANSO, the ICAO APAC A-CDM Task Force in the development of A-CDM guidelines as well as member states A-CDM training.

Fredrik holds a M.Sc. in Digital Communication Systems and is currently the Vice President, Head of Saab Thailand & Sales Director ATM Region Asia.

Iliyana Simeonova

Iliyana Simeonova is a Project Manager at EUROCONTROL. Her responsibilities include coordinating the EUREKA project, which is paving the way for vertiports. Previously, she served as a deputy project manager and fast time simulation expert in various Air Traffic Management projects. Iliyana started her 15-year aviation career by earning a Ph.D. in Engineering Science from the Louvain School of Engineering in Belgium. She also holds a Master of Aeronautical Engineering degree from the Sofia School of Engineering.