Speaker Bio

Katie was appointed as Head of Air Traffic Services in December 2019. Prior to joining Airways, Katie was a member of Airservices Australia’s senior leadership team. Most recently she was the Delivery Manager for Australia’s Northern Operations enroute air traffic control facility. In this role, she had significant people leadership accountability for service delivery across the Brisbane flight information region. Katie is an accomplished and capable project and change manager, with extensive experience in effectively leading whole scale change and improvement programs in large aviation organisations. She is a qualified aircraft maintenance engineer, spending seven years in the Royal Australian Navy.