Gherardo Baruffa, Managing Director, Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank

Session 7

Since 2000, Gherardo is responsible of all airports and airlines related businesses on a worldwide basis for the bank. Gherardo has been involved in many airport transactions such as ADP’s IPO and Gemina acquisition and capital increase related to Aeroporti di Roma. He was also involved in various advisory mandates with regards to various privatizations with a view to elaborate and fund such acquisitions

Previously, after two years as Assistant to the Group Treasurer at Solvay, Gherardo Baruffa, joined Crédit Lyonnais Belgium in 1988, with responsibilities in the Property, Project Finance and Advisory Departments. In 1992 he was transferred to Paris to join a newly-created Credit Department specializing in Project, Asset, and Structured Finance, where he took responsibility for the Aircraft and Shipping Finance Unit.

He holds a Commercial Engineering degree from the Université Libre de Bruxelles

George Kuntu Blankson, Board Chairman, Ghana Airports Company

Session 1

Date of Birth: 25^th December 1957

Profession: Social Scientist

Hon. George Kuntu Blankson is the current Member of Parliament for Mfantseman East, Deputy Majority Chief Whip in charge of Government business, Vice Chairman of Local Government Select Committee, President of Ghana/Korea Business Friendship Association, Chairman of the Board of Directors of GACL.

He was educated at the Nico Lopez University Havana, Cuba.

He has years of experience in Public Administration and loves gardening, counseling and listening to music.

He is married with six children.

Kwan Young Chung, Vice President,
Head of Strategic Business Development, SAMSUNG C&T

Session 2

K.Y. Chung is a Registered Architect with over 29 years of experience in Korea,Japan, Far East, Africa, Middle East, Russia and the United States. He brings a life cycle based and value added program management on commercial, institutional, multi funcional complex and government projects including pre-planning, feasibility studies, design management, project management and construction support. K.Y. has managed diverse teams of multi-national architects, engineers construction and project management teams, and vendors and subconsultants, on large-scale international projects, with the ability to manage several projects/tasks simultaneously. He specializes in strategic planning, busines development, system integration, multi-level integrated team management, risk management, design and engineering management, and program management for multi-hundred million dollar mixed use and complex projects, including aviation development project. He is currently responsible for developing strategic new business in SAMSUNG corporation.

MODERATOR: Rigas Doganis, Rigas Doganis & Associates

Session2

Professor Doganis trained as a transport economist and now acts as aviation consultant to airlines, airports, banks and governments around the world.

He is a non-executive Director of easyJet and of GMR Hyderabad International Airport . He is Chairman of the European Aviation Club in Brussels. In 2003-6 he served on the Board of South African Airways.

He was Chairman/CEO of Olympic Airways the Greek airline in the mid-1990s and successfully implemented a turn-round plan.

He set up the Department of Air Transport at Cranfield University (UK) and is now Visiting Professor there. He was previously Head of the Transport Studies Group at the University of Westminster.

He has written widely on airlines and airports and is the author of the classic text-book Flying Off Course: Airline Economics and Marketing ( 4^th edition Jan. 2010), of The Airline Business and also of The Airport Business. These have been translated into Spanish , Japanese and Chinese.

Amber Dubey, Director, Aviation, KPMG

Seminar

Amber Dubey is Director, Aviation, at KPMG. He has a professional experience of around 20 years.

Amber and his team have carried out several engagements with Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA), Airports Economic Regulatory Authority (AERA), Airports Authority of India (AAI), GMR Group, GVK Group, Reliance Airports, Cochin Airport, Celebi Cargo, CSC Group etc. These were in areas of strategy, regulations, PPP, cost management, bid advisory, organization restructuring and equity valuation.

He’s assisted MoCA in drafting the 12^th Five Year Plan for the civil aviation. He’s also a member of MoCA’s Civil Aviation Innovation Council. He is currently assisting Government of Maharashtra on the bidding process for the USD 3 billion second airport in Mumbai. He is also assisting MoCA and AAI in the hive-off and corporatization of the Air Navigation Services.

Amber is an alumnus of IIT Bombay and IIM Ahmedabad.

Rodolfo Echeverria, Chief Financial Officer, Airport International Group (AIG)

Afternoon Seminar

Career … 20+ years international experience in finance and banking / change management in Chile, USA, Europe and Middle East, including last 8 years in PPP/BOT Airport Concessions in Jamaica, Cyprus and Jordan. Education … He holds a Master Degree in Business and Administration from Stern School of Business, New York University and a Bachelor Degree in Public Accounting from Universidad Central de Chile. He also hold an International Airport Professional Accreditation extended by ACI-ICAO (AMPAP) and a Certificate Airport Executive Leadership Programme from ACI / JMSB-Concordia University.  He is a Regional Board Member of ACI Asia Pacific region. He is a PPP Advocate and an active member of the airport community.

David Ellis, Head of Research and Insight, Heathrow Airport

Seminar

David joined BAA Airports Ltd in 2006 after a 21 year career in the supermarket industry in the UK working for Sainsbury’s in a number of senior roles. Most recently he was Head of Commercial Planning responsible for price and promotional strategy, category and event planning.

He has been in his current post since the start of this year; previously having led the customer insight team for Heathrow and the retail insights team for all BAA airports.

During his time at Heathrow David has led a number of key projects including developing the passenger input into the airports 2010 Strategic Options Plan, reviewing the passenger experience in security, redeveloping the airport’s approach to benchmarking and reporting on improvements to the passenger experience and redeveloping the approach to customer segmentation, space planning and value proposition in retail.

Barcu Geris, Head of Project & Structured Finance,
TAV Airports Holding

Session 3

Twelve years experience in project finance and treasury. Previously worked in corporate and investment banking. Joined TAV Airports in 2005 and has been leading the project & structured finance team for the last 6 years. Completed financing of eight airport projects totalling US$2.3bn. Holds BA degree from Bogazici University, MBA degree from Columbia Business School and London Business School. Married with one daughter. Speaks English and French.

Angela Gittens, Director General, ACI World,

Welcoming and Opening remarks 

Dr Anne Graham, Transport Studies Group, Westminister University

 Chairman, Afternoon Seminar

Dr Anne Graham is Reader in Air Transport and Tourism at the University of Westminster. Before joining the University, Anne worked in air transport consultancy. Anne has been involved in the teaching, research and consultancy of air transport for over 25 years and has developed two key research interests. First is in airport management, economics and regulation. Her major publication in this area is the third edition of ‘Managing Airports: An International Perspective’. Her other key research area is the analysis of tourism and aviation demand and the relationship between the tourism and aviation industries. She is joint editor of the book entitled ‘Aviation and Tourism: Implications for Leisure Travel’. Anne is a frequent speaker at industry conferences throughout the world and has authored a number of book chapters and articles. She is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Airport Management and the Journal of Air Transport Studies.

Bob Hazel is a Partner at Oliver Wyman, a global management consulting firm that represents clients in all sectors of aviation. He has a broad background in aviation economics and commercial and regulatory issues, and is recognized as an expert on airports. His diverse expertise includes business planning, market analysis, economic and regulatory studies, and airline-airport issues.

Prior to becoming a consultant in 2001, Bob worked for US Airways as Vice President - Properties and Facilities and in several other positions, including as the airline’s lead lawyer for aircraft acquisitions and corporate finance transactions, as well as senior regulatory counsel.

He has authored or co-authored numerous publications on the topics of airport and airline economics.

Bob holds a bachelor’s degree from Princeton, a law degree from the University of Chicago, and an MBA from George Washington.

Patrick Heck, CFO, Denver International Airport,

Session 7

Patrick Heck is the Deputy Manager of Aviation for Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer for Denver International Airport. In this role, Mr. Heck has responsibility for all financial activities, including long-term strategic business planning, accounting, internal audit, and strategic sourcing. Previously, Mr. Heck was the Deputy Manager for Revenue Development and Strategic Advisor for the airport.

Mr. Heck has previously held a variety of positions with United Airlines in finance, operations and marketing and sales. He holds a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Denver.

Mr. Heck is a member of the ACI-North America Finance Steering and the ACI World Economics Committee.

Dominic Helmsley, Partner, Arcus Infrastructure Partners LLP

Session 2

Dominic is a Partner at Arcus Infrastructure Partners, a leading independent, specialist fund manager focused on the European infrastructure sector.

Arcus European Infrastructure Fund 1, is an unlisted fund with over €2 billion of commitments backed by over 40 institutional investors from around the world. The Fund invests in high quality infrastructure assets throughout Europe.

Dominic is responsible for asset management within Arcus and sits on the Board of a number of investee companies.

Arcus was formed in a MBO from Babcock and Brown in 2009. He had previously had joined infrastructure team at Babcock in 2006 and examined a number of airport and other transport related investment opportunities for their European Infrastructure Fund.

Prior to that he spent 12 years with BAA plc, primarily with BAA International where he headed the team responsible for international investment, specifically looking for equity investment opportunities for BAA at airports outside the UK. He worked on numerous transactions across the world and closed deals in Europe, the Middle East and Australia. He sat on the Board of BAA International and on the Boards of BAA’s overseas joint ventures.

He graduated from Southampton University in Civil Engineering. He later studied Corporate Finance at London Business School and is an alumnus of the Advanced Management Programme at INSEAD.

Peter Hope, Senior Consultant, Oxera

Seminar

Peter specialises in corporate finance and economics. He works across a range of industry sectors spanning regulated and unregulated infrastructure, with a focus on transport and energy networks. His work is mainly concerned with the analysis of risk and incentives - particularly the impact of different financing structures and regulatory regimes on value and the cost of capital.  He has worked on regulatory price control determinations in the UK and overseas as well as on submissions to the UK Competition Commission and the Competition Appeal Tribunal. Recently, he has been heavily involved in the corporate finance aspects of Ofgem's reforms to the regulatory framework for energy networks.

Rajeev Kumar Jain, Chief Executive Officer, Mumbai International Airport Pvt. Ltd

Session 6

Mr. R K Jain has experience at senior level in Infrastructure sector for more than 28 years. At present, he is the Chief Executive Officer of Mumbai International Airport Pvt. Ltd., operating and developing CSI Airport, Mumbai. He has been associated with CSIA for last five years.

Mr. R K Jain is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and also fellow member of various other professional institutes in India and abroad.

Olivier Jankovec, Director General, ACI EUROPE,

Welcome & Opening Remarks

Sidharath Kapur, Chief Financial Officer, Delhi International Airport PVT Ltd, GMR Group

Session 4

Alex Kirby, Founder and Managing Director, Insight Media Ltd

Conference Chairman

Catherine Lang, Deputy Associate Administrator for Airports, FAA

Welcome/Opening remarks

The mission of the Airports organization is to provide leadership in planning and developing a safe and efficient national airport system. The office has responsibility for all programs related to airport safety and inspections, and standards for airport design, construction and operation (including international harmonization of airport standards). Each year, the office awards $3.5 billion in airport grants and approves passenger facility charge collections totaling $2 billion. The office also is responsible for national airport planning, as well as environmental and social requirements. The office establishes policies related to airport rates and charges, compliance with grant assurances and airport privatization.

Prior to joining the Airports organization, Ms. Lang served for 3 years as Chief of Staff to FAA Deputy Administrator Linda Daschle. Her first position in the agency, which she joined in 1992, was as Assistant Manager for the Policy and Systems Analysis Division of the Office of Aviation Policy and Plans.

Alexander Laukenmann, General Manager, ICF Airports Antalya

Session 4

Alexander Laukenmann is the General Manager of ICF Airports, the Terminal Operator at Antalya Airport.

ICF Airports is a Turkish joint venture established in 2007 between German Fraport AG and Turkish İbrahim Çeçen Group.

Before taking up his current position in 2009, he worked as General Manager of a Ground Handling Company at Vienna Airport.

He joined Fraport AG in 2000 and hold various positions in finance, controlling and M&A. In these functions, he was actively involved in the Fraport Initial Public Offering 2001 and Frankfurt expansion program. Also he has gained vast experience in airport tender projects such as Lima, Hong Kong, Budapest, London City Airport and Antalya. Beforehand, he has served 6 years in Commerzbank corporate banking responsible for national and multinational companies.

Mark Lunsford, Managing Director, LeighFisher

Session 4

Mr. Lunsford has more than 19 years of experience in airport consulting, including economic, facility, land use, and security studies.

Mr. Lunsford is the leader of LeighFisher’s global aviation practice, as well as all of its operations in the Americas and Asia.  He leads a 130-person multidisciplinary team with a wide-range of airport expertise, including finance, traffic forecasting, privatization, economic regulation and policy, airline negotiations, organization and management, retail  planning, commercial land development, sustainability, air quality, noise, master planning, airfield/airspace planning, terminal planning, access/egress roadways, car parking, cargo, general aviation, and operational optimization.

Mr. Lunsford has personally led many major aviation-related assignments including major airport master plans, cost/benefit studies for major airfield investments, economic impact studies, multi-airport region demand allocation studies, environmental studies, and a national airport security investment strategy study.  He specializes in leading large multi-disciplinary teams addressing significant aviation investment questions and his most high profile role to date was in 2011 when LeighFisher was retained by Estruturadora Brasileira de Projetos (EBP), an agency tasked with attracting private investment and expertise to certain public infrastructure assets in Brazil, to provide a full suite of “sell side” advisory services associated with the concession of three airports.

Stan Maiden recently retired from BAA after a career of over 40 years, the last 25 years of which were spent as Research Director.

Although Stan’s major responsibility at BAA throughout his career was in the field of air traffic statistics and forecasting, he developed in 1986 an in-house full service market research team at BAA which was the first of its kind in the world.

In the late 1980’s Stan led the team in developing a continuous research tool among BAA’s seven airports known as the Quality of Service Monitor, or QSM.   This model has since been adopted by airports and regulatory bodies around the world.

In 2001 Stan convinced ACI that it was time that airports around the world should develop, and manage, a benchmarking survey of passenger opinions on various aspects of service at airports.   At the time it was launched in 2004 with 45 participating airports, the aim of what was initially called the AETRA survey was to achieve a total of 75 airports.   Now known as the ASQ it counts roughly 250 airports as members and has become of growing significance to the airports involved.

Hans Martens, Manager, Market Research and Intelligence, Amsterdam Schiphol Airport

Morning Seminar

He studied social psychology at the University of Utrecht, specialising in mass communication research. Before Schiphol he worked as a projectleader at a dutch market research company and as market researcher for Center Parcs, the Benelux market leader in short term breaks.

At Amsterdam Airport Schiphol he manages the Market Research & Intelligence department. This team of 7 persons covers all the research and insights consulting on passengers and other customer and business-to-business target groups. He also has a lot of experience in research & consultancy for other airports (New York, Brisbane, Iceland, Aruba, Jakarta, Toronto).

Colin Matthews, CEO, BAA,

Session 1

Deborah McElroy
Executive Vice President, Policy and External Affairs

Session 1

Michael McGhee, Partner, Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP)

Session 2

"Michael is a founding partner of Global Infrastructure Partners based in London.  He led GIP's acquisition of London City Airport in November 2006 and London Gatwick Airport in December 2009.  He was previously Head of Credit Suisse's Global Transportation and Logistics group from 1997 to 2006 and prior to that was Head of Transport Investment Banking at BZW from 1990.  He has been the lead advisor on the privatisations of over 25 airports or groups of airports and was lead advisor to the UK Government on the Public Private Partnership of NATS in 2001.  He has also advised on several airline transactions in the UK and globally."

Dr Peter Morrell is a consultant and visiting professor at Cranfield University. He graduated in economics from Cambridge University and subsequently gained a Masters in air transportation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he worked on NASA sponsored research into airline forecasting and profitability. He has a doctorate from Cranfield University. He initially worked with merchant bank, Lazard Brothers, in the City, before joining the Association of European Airlines in Brussels as an economist in 1971. He worked as an air transport consultant from 1978 to 1991, initially with Alistair Tucker Associates and subsequently independently.

He is a former head of the Department of Air Transport at the College of Aeronautics at Cranfield University, where he held a chair in air transport economics and finance. He is the European Editor for the Journal of Air Transport Management and on the editorial board of Tourism Economics.

He has been involved in numerous airline and airport projects worldwide. Airline consultancy has included work for British Airways, British Midland, Qantas, LOT Polish Airlines, SAS, Air One, Royal Nepal Airlines and a number of African and Caribbean airlines. Airport projects have been as far afield as Argentina and Mongolia, and included Hannover, Berlin, Luton and Barcelona in Europe. He also directed a number of major studies for the European Commission.

He has lectured on numerous industry courses, and directs the Airline Finance course at Cranfield. He lectured on airline industry regulation for the Royal Aeronautical Society’s annual Oxford Air Transport Course, and has taught airline management at the French L’Ecole National de l’Aviation Civil (ENAC), Donau-Universität in Austria, Chang Jung University in Taiwan, the Hong Kong Ploytechnic University and the Brazilian Instituto de Aviaçao Civil. He has also lectured on in-house management courses for airlines which included British Airways, Virgin Atlantic, Singapore Airlines, Malaysia Airlines, South African Airways, Finnair, LOT Polish Airlines, Emirates Airlines and Cyprus Airways, and courses for other clients such as British Telecom. He is the author of the textbook Airline Finance (the third edition of which was published in 2007), Moving boxes by air: the economics of international air cargo (2011) and has written many articles for both academic and industry journals.

Iain Osborne, Group Director of Regulatory Policy,
UK Civil Aviation Authority

Session 6

Iain Osborne is the Civil Aviation Authority’s Group Director for Regulatory Policy, taking lead responsibilities on the CAA Board for economic regulation. Iain was previously Chief Executive of Northern Ireland’s Utility Regulator, where he created a new regime for water regulation, as well as leading regulation of electricity and natural gas. Iain previously worked in the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition on gas markets.  Prior to that he was Director of Consumer Markets at Ofgem, the GB Energy Regulator. He has also worked for pan-European telecommunications companies, the Department of Trade and Industry and McKinsey & Company

Sotiris Pagdadis, Principal, Capital Projects & Infrastructure Global Airports Leader, PricewaterhouseCoopers

Session 6

Dr. Sotiris Pagdadis the Leader of the Capital Projects & Infrastructure Practice at PwC India. He has over 25 years of experience consulting with top executives in public and private sector infrastructur re management around the globe. Sotiris has helped clients s manage the complexities associated with public c­private partnerships, privatization, capital development and d capital improvements. His expertise includes: strrategic masterplannig, infrastructure assessment, capital pro oject financing, value analysis, risk assessment aand analysis, lifecycle analysis, and technology assessment.

Prior to joining PwC, Sotiris was foun nder and president of the Lambousa Infrastructur es Consultancy Group where he pioneered a risk­based manag gement review and project appraisal methodology. H He previously served as Managing Director of the Transportatio on Infrastructure Practice at McKenna Long and Aldr ridge, LLP, focusing on governmental affairs, procurement advo ocacy, public­private partnerships and privatization. . Earlier he was world­wide vice president of public sector tran nsportation at CA, Inc. There he advised governmen nt agencies and private sector clients globally, creating best­ooff­breed solutions for some of the most prestigiou us airport and seaport authorities around the world in the areaas of asset and portfolio management, services man nagement, and security command and control.

A few examples of Sotiris' client experiennce include:

• Conducting a conceptual stage e risk assessment for financing a new terminal fo or a dominant airport authority in Europe;
• Advising the Government of C Cyprus on behalf of the EU to establish PPP Conce essions nation­wide in public transport.
• Developing risk management plans and project finance alternatives for the International Arrivals Building at JFK International A Airport;
• Conducting the financial and teechnical risk analysis of the AirTrain for the Port A Authority of New York and New Jersey.
• Advising a multi­national conc cessionaire on capital investment plans for a domin nant power generation facility in Malaysia;
• Developing a risk­based, fina ancial model for a prestigious public agency to formulate a 20­year transportation business strategy y in electronic tolls collection;
• Conducting a risk assessment and reviewing IT requirements for the largest E9111 system in the USA, including security and systems iintegration;
• Developing decision models for the largest government utility agency in Canada to d develop project finance strategies for their water system m;
• Conducting due diligence and m market sounding to finance and build a state­of­the­­art hospital for one of the largest hospital systems in N New York;
• Providing strategic support for tthe formation of an IT Security network for the Athe ens Olympic Games.

Sotiris was trained as an aerospace eng gineer. After receiving his Doctorate degree in Proj ject Management from The University of Texas at Austin, he wwent on to become a university professor at the P Polytechnic Institute of NYU, followed by advisory roles at Collumbia University and the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is the founder of ECOSFUND, a philanthr ropic organization providing subject matter exp pertise to grass roots organizations throughout Sub­Saharan n Africa. He was awarded The Order of Alec for o outstanding leadership from The University of Texas at Austin n in 1984. He is extensively published and regula arly appears as a guest speaker at conferences.

Nicolas Painvin, Head of Infrastructure & EMEA, FitchRatings

Session 3

Nicolas Painvin heads the transport and social infrastructure team in EMEA region and has led analytical works for various airports, including BAA, Gatwick, ACSA and Aéroports de Paris.

He co-authored Fitch’s global rating criteria report for airports and has published various reports on airports, including articles published in the Journal of Airport Management and Airport World.

Prior to joining Fitch in 2000, Nicolas worked as a senior auditor for Deloitte and Touche and as banker for Caisse Nationale des Caisses d’Epargne in France where he was in charge of large public sector clients.

Nicolas is a professor on credit ratings in the MBA of HEC since 2004. He has been teaching public finance, project finance and credit ratings at the Universities of Paris since 1998 (La Sorbonne, Dauphine, Sciences Po) as well as ENA and INET.

He co-authored a reference book on credit ratings (“La notation financière”), published by Dunod in 2007.

Nicolas graduated from Rouen Business School, holds a post graduate degree in public economics from Université Paris-Dauphine and a BA in languages (German, English, and Italian) from La Sorbonne.

Yiannis Paraschis, Chief Executive Officer, Athens International Airport

Session 1

Chris Poinsatte, Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport

Session 5

Satyaki Raghunath, Head of Asian Aviation Practice, LeighFisher

Session 7

Mr. Raghunath has over 10 years of work experience of which the last 8 have been spent working on a variety of airport consulting assignments across the United States, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. He has extensive experience in strategic, master, airfield, and terminal facilities planning, as well as commercial due diligence and business and strategic airport planning.  Mr. Raghunath leads LeighFisher’s work in Asia; he divides his time between the company’s London and New Delhi offices.

Mr. Raghunath is currently part of the LeighFisher Team serving as lead regulatory advisors to the GMR Group for New Delhi and Hyderabad international airports.  He also was part of the LeighFisher Team that served as business plan advisors to Global Infrastructure Partners on their successful bid for London Gatwick Airport.  His primary role was in the development of the capital expenditure (CapEx) strategy and forecasts for the bid.

In addition, Mr. Raghunath also writes a regular column titled “East Side Story” for the Passenger Terminal World Journal.  Prior to joining LeighFisher, Mr. Raghunath was a researcher at the University of California at Berkeley’s National Center of Excellence for Aviation Operations Research (NEXTOR), where he worked on airfield and airport capacity analyses at large-hub airports in the United States.

Arturo Recio, Managing Director, 
Global Head of Infrastructure (London)

Session 3

Amit Rikhy, Vice President, Business Development, Vantage
Airport Group

Session 4

Miriam Ryan, Head of Strategy DAA

Session 5

Miriam has worked for Dublin Airport Authority for over 20 years. During that time she has held responsibilities in a range of business areas including Marketing, Industry Affairs and Regulation. In the latter role she led the company’s engagement with the Commission for Aviation Regulation in relation to airport charges determinations, ground handling and slot matters.

She is currently Head of Strategy for DAA, leading and managing the strategic planning process across the business, including advising on a range of stakeholder engagements, at Board, Government and customer levels.

Miriam is a member of the ACI Economics Committee and plays an active role in both its Benchmarking and Strategy work groups.

Stefan J Rüter, Senior Vice President - Head of Finance & Investor Relations, Fraport AG

Session 7

Chris Smith is a Senior Advisor to the Seabury Group and is Seabury’s representative to ACI Europe.

He has worked in the air transport industry for his entire 36 year professional career since graduating from Oxford. During his career, he has advised airport operators, airlines, air traffic management organisations, other government agencies and private sector investors throughout the world on all aspects of the industry. He has worked for most major European airport operators and other airport operators and investors around the world on the economics of the business. Many of his assignments have been in relation to the involvement of the private sector in airport infrastructure. He directed ACI Europe’s 2006 survey of capital expenditure and economic regulation, and the review of the Ground Handling Directive for the Commission in 2002.

Lars Sörensen, Senior Vice President, Energy & Infrastructure, HSH Nordbank AG

Lars Sörensen joined HSH’s Infrastructure team in July 2004. Since then he established a track record of transactions in airports and ports as well as rail and road infrastructure. Further to this Lars looks at oil and gas grid financings. In the recent years Lars achieved a superior position in the airport financing market. Key projects comprise lead mandates for BAA and Brussels Airport as well as Belfast City and Liverpool airports and the expansion of Sheremetyevo’s Terminal 2.

Lars joined Landesbank Kiel (which later became HSH Nordbank) in 2002 as senior investment manager in the bank’s private equity subsidiary where he built a portfolio of equity-investments in Germany and Scandinavia. Prior to this Lars had a long career as a senior relationship manager in corporate banking before he became head of Mergers & Acquisitions with Flemming Dental AG. He holds an university degree from Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel (Dipl. Kfm.) where he graduated in 1986.

Stewart Steeves, President & Chief Executive Officer, Nassau Airport Development Company Ltd

Session 3

Chris Tarry, Aviation Industry Research & Advisory, CTAIRA

Moderator Session 1

Chris Tarry established CTAIRA In December 2002 to provide research, consulting services and advice on and to the transport and aviation industries in the areas of business planning, including strategy and strategic development; industry and market forecasting and performance measurement and evaluation. These services are provided to a broad and still growing spectrum of clients from amongst: airlines, manufacturing companies, airport owners, government bodies and banks and other financial institutions, covering a wide range of strategic, financial and market related issues. He is and has been an advisor to government departments and the UK Parliament on aviation issues including the review of air transport arrangements for the Royal Family and senior Government ministers; he was a member of the UK CAA’s advisory group in respect of the charging regime for the UK’s regulated airports.

Before establishing CTAIRA he worked as an investment analyst in the City of London from 1984 when he began an engineering analyst, focusing first on Aviation and was voted the UK’s leading aerospace analyst for the years that there was a separate FTSE grouping, before switching to focus wholly on transport and particularly airlines, a sector he has followed professionally since the early 1980s. In this period Chris was also regularly ranked in the top three European transport analysts and led a number of major international share issues including that of the final privatisation of Lufthansa.

Prior to his career as an analyst he had worked in a number of fields associated with economic and related research and analysis.

He has undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in economics. He is a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, a member of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, a member of the Securities Institute and a Liveryman of the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators.

He also holds a private pilot’s licence. He lectures on courses held at the Universities of Oxford, Cranfield, where he is a member of the Advisory Board for the Air Transport De[artment, and the London School of Economics; he is a Visiting Senior Fellow in the School of Management at the University of Surrey.

Chris is a member of the European Advisory Panel of All Nippon Airways (ANA) and of IATA’s “Vision 2050 – Shaping the Future” forum

He writes a monthly column for Airline Business and regularly writes and comments in other media on industry issues, is a member of a number of judging panels for industry awards as well as presenting at and chairing conferences across the world.

Edith Tieber joined Zurich Airport in January 2003 working for the Corporate Development department. Amongst other projects she developed and implemented a concept for the setup of a market research department. Since its successful implementation at the beginning of the year 2005 she is Head of the Department which also includes customer relations (CRM) and feedback management. The aim of the department is to operate independently and to provide comprehensive market research services to the entire company in order to support the decision making processes and ensure companywide a high quality service level. Since 2009 she has been consulting Bangalore International Airport regarding ASQ survey, data analysis and quality assurance. Prior to joining Zurich Airport Edith Tieber worked four years with IBM. She studied communication and media and English literature in the US before completing her studies in economics and added a post-graduate diploma in applied psychology.

Nazareno Ventola, Strategy & CPM Director, Aeroporto G Marconi di Bologna SpA

Session 5

Peter Mackenzie-Williams, Director, LeighFisher

Afternoon Seminar

Peter Mackenzie-Williams has 33 years’ experience in the aviation industry, including 22 years in airport consulting. He specializes in airport economics, including air traffic, revenue and expenditure forecasting, and he has become recognised as an expert in the comparison of airport charge levels and operational and financial performance. He has given Evidence on air traffic demand at most of the main planning Inquiries for UK airport developments in the past 15 years, including Heathrow Terminal 5, Manchester Runway 2 and Doncaster Sheffield Airport.

Peter is responsible for developing the world-renowned Review of Airport Charges and Airport Performance Indicators publications which he produced at TRL prior to joining LeighFisher.   He has provided various benchmarking products to airports negotiating proposals for revised aeronautical charges with regulators and airline users. Since joining LeighFisher he has also been involved in a number of due diligence projects for potential airport investors, producing air traffic forecasts and forecasts of airport commercial revenue. He is a member of the ACI-World Standing Economics Committee.

Dr Waleed Youssef, Chief Strategy Officer,
TAV Airports Holding

Session 2

Waleed Youssef has served as Strategy Director of TAV Airports Holding since 2008. A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley's Department of Civil Engineering, he subsequently earned his Master’s Degree in transportation economics and Ph.D. degree in air transport finance from UC Berkeley. Prior to joining TAV Airports, Dr. Youssef served as Director at Abu Dhabi Airports Company, and as Aviation Specialist at the International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group. Dr. Youssef has vast experience in airport privatization, including successful transactions in JFK Terminal 4(USA), Brisbane International Airport(Australia), and Bangalore International Airport(India). During his tenure at the IFC, Youssef served as privatization advisor to the governments of Jordan(Amman), Saudi Arabia(Hajj Terminal), Madagascar(Antananarivo), Nigeria(Abuja) and Panama(Howard AFB). In Abu Dhabi, he led the corporatization and certification of its two airport companies (Abu Dhabi and Al Ain). Dr. Youssef is the immediate past Chairman of the World Economics Standing Committee at ACI and the Chairman of the Committee on Airfield and Airspace Capacity and Delay at the US National Academy of Sciences Transportation Research Board.

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