GHAC Conference
14
Oct
Summary
What this edition was
The 13th GHAC was held in Dubai in October 2021. Twenty-two speakers took the podium, including Emirates, Textron Aviation, Voyageur Aviation, Mission Aviation Fellowship, Cham Wings, Air-Tec Global and the World Food Programme. The daily digests and all twenty-three presentations are available below.
Speakers
The voices on the podium
Manager International Cooperation - EU Neighbourhood & Asia Section bij EASA - European Union Aviation Safety Agency
Captain Vouros is qualified on a number of large Jet Aircraft types including the Boeing 737 series and Airbus Series aircraft as Captain, Instructor and TRI/TRE, with a total of approximately 60 different aircraft on his license.
He has held a number of Senior Managerial and Executive positions in the Scheduled and Non-Scheduled Airline Industry, with extensive Humanitarian Operational experience and is a qualified IOSA auditor and former IATA IOSA Committee Member in Montreal.
In addition to this, Captain Vouros holds a Master's degree in Business Administration and is currently the Chief Operating Officer, for the Air-Tec Global Group.
Daniel Juzi is a humanitarian disaster response and safety and security specialist working for Swiss Government Development. He is still active as a pilot and lectures on topics around crisis, safety and security management.
Growing up in South East Asia, Daniel completed his undergraduate studies in the USA and graduate studies at City University in London. Daniel has spent his career flying in fragile contexts, starting out in Africa, then spending 20 years in Afghanistan and in various humanitarian disasters.
Daniel has specialized in helping organizations understand anthropological issues around safety management through finding contextual solutions. Various organizations have also asked for help to develop their crisis management or Daniel has been asked to support them in a real crisis.
Daniel is available for lectures, workshops, or consultations.
Denys Saltanov has over 15 years of field and HQ experience with the World Food Programme Aviation. He has led aviation quality assurance and emergency response functions, managing air transport operations in complex environments. Denys holds a Master’s degree in Air Transport Management from Cranfield University and currently leads WFP air operations in Northeast Nigeria.
Ismael Rhissa Zakary is responsible for the development of long-range business objectives and strategic plans for Pratt and Whitney Canada. His role encompasses identifying and developing Pratt & Whitney Canada new services in Europe, Africa and Middle-east as well as leading range of Aftermarket support activities.
Ismael holds a Master's in Business Administration (MBA) in strategy from Queen's University, a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) and a Post Graduate degree in Finance and Treasury from McGill University.
Ansa Jordaan
Chief, Aviation Medicine Section
The International Civil Aviation Organization
Juan Carlos is an Airline Transport Pilot flying for Iberia Airlines as a Senior First Officer in the Airbus A330/A340 fleet. As a professional pilot he has accumulated more than 10,000 flight hours in different types of airplanes. He is an IFALPA Accredited Aircraft Accident Investigator and holds a Certificate in Aviation Safety & Security (University of Southern California).He is member of the ICAO Safety Management Panel since 2011. COPAC (Spanish Guild of Commercial Pilots) designated Juan Carlos as Safety & Technical Expert in 2012. Between 2012 and 2014 he was member of the European Aviation Safety Advisory Committee (EASAC). Since 2014 he is collaborating with The Aloft Group as a Flight Operations & Safety Management expert in specific projects.
Kashif Khaled
IATA
Regional Director – Africa &Middle East Airports, Passenger, Cargo, Security & Facilitation
Lalitya works for McLarens Aviation in Abu Dhabi, UAE, as a loss adjusting engineer where she conducts technical reviews, including Safety Reporting, supporting incident investigations, identification of claim adjustments and engineering documentation. She works with a number of charter operations in the region including aid program operations into South Sudan, Afghanistan, Somalia and Libya. She holds a Bachelors of Technology in Aerospace Engineering and a Master of Science in Aviation Safety. Lalitya recognized early on the importance of continuing professional development and networking, and to this end, she volunteers for the Royal Aeronautical Society as UAE Branch Secretary, organizing a series of monthly events.
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Mr. Luc HARDY
Associate Programme Management Officer
Addressing Counter-Terrorism in Aviation Security unit, UNOCT
Luc Hardy is Associate Programme Management Officer at the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism(UNOCT). As part of UNOCT’s Addressing Counter-Terrorism in Aviation Security unit, heworks on the deployment of the agency’s new Progamme on Threat Assessment Models for AviationSecurity. Prior to joining UNOCT, Luc was Policy Officer (2016-2020), andlater Acting Head (2020) ofSmiths Group’s Corporate Affairs EMEA in Brussels, Belgium, where he was working primarily onaviation security, border security and CBRN defence for the company’s security and defence systemsdivision Smiths Detection. From 2018-2020, Luc was a co-chair of the European Organisation forSecurity’s Integrated Border Security working group and a regular participant to European Commissionexpert groups on Sec
MANUEL BUSTAMANTE
Director Operations-Director Institutional Relations - Flymex
Bio:
Martin Tuck
Martin is a 43 year veteran of Aircraft Marketing for Textron Aviation and has long been associated withthe Beechcraft, Cessna and Hawker brands of business and Special Mission aircraft. Located in Wichita,Kansas, USA, Martin’s roleincludes Sales and Marketing representation on the core teams for the new
Cessna SkyCourier twin engine utility aircraft and the Beechcraft Denali single engine turboprop aircraft.Martin’s presentation will talk about the some of the aviation innovationsunderway at Textron, reviewthe Textron Aviation product line and provide an update and details of the new Cessna SkyCourieraircraft.
Mohammad Kushan
FAA's Senior Representative to the Middle East region
is the FAA's Senior Representative to the Middle East region. He has previously served as a U.S. member and advisor to numerous ICAO technical panels, has an operational background in air traffic control, and has led cross-functional teams focused on developing standards and procedures for new entrant integration into controlled airspace. Mohammad has a bachelor's degree in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a master's degree in International Science and Technology Policy from George Washington University.
Moses Mwangi is a highly motivated expert in aviation finance and management who holds an MBA from Edinburgh business school in UK. He is a certified public accountant with a current practicing certificate. He is also an alumnus of Harvard business schoolís advance management program.
Moses has a proven leadership portfolio having worked as CFO and CEO for different aviation companies in East Africa. He is passionate about the Aviation Industry and a go getter with notable accomplishments in the 38 years he has worked with the aviation and manufacturing industries.
Mourad Ben Asker has 18 years of experience in aviation. He left Airbus to join the GCAA in 2010 and at that time he was Certification Manager in the avionics domain, working on various Airbus programmes.
He joined the GCAA as Certification Airworthiness Inspector and he conducted several audits against Part-21 and Part-145. In 2011, he joined the department of GCAA in charge of policies, regulation and standards. As specialist and then as manager, he is actively engaged in the development and interpretation of rules and standards including Audit standards for GCAA Inspectors. Mourad still carries out audit for benefit of support the current inspectorate department of the GCAA and also to observe the need of inspectors when in the field.
" Capt. Muhammad Naushad Anjum is a pilot by profession and has flown different types of Airforce and Civil aircraft in last 30 years with few of them as Flight Instructor. He is certified in Flight Safety, Accident investigation and Human Factors discipline. He has been a CRM manager and facilitator in his last airline. Naushad also holds MSc and a post graduate degree in psychology. He is member of EAAP and BPS ( British Psychological Society). Naushad has academic interest in Aviation Psychology and Human Factors. He currently flies A320 family aircraft in UAE as a Captain and is also part of their CRM/HF team. He likes to call himself a student of Human Factors because he believes that we as humans are sometimes blind to ourselves and as well to an extent blind to our blindness."
Dr. Nicklas has been with the airline since 2007. In this position he has overseen CRM training in a rapidly expanding airline and also driven integration of Human Factors in the organization. Nicklas was previously a researcher and instructor at Lund University School of Aviation in Sweden and still holds a part-time position as Assistant Professor there. His work has mainly focused on safety and Human Factors in aviation, but also areas such as maritime transportation, health care and nuclear industry. His research areas in aviation have been mental workload, training and simulation as well as culture. Nicklas has written research articles and book chapters on Human Factors and CRM as well as delivered invited presentations, lectures and training in more than twenty countries. He is currently part of the ICAO Human Performance Task Force that is rewriting the Human Factors document of
Nizar has eight years of experience working alongside the executive team of ALS Ltd, a leading aviation company based at Wilson Airport Nairobi. Nizar has a Master's degree of Science in Corporate Finance from the University of Liverpool and is also a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA). He has over 10 years of experience in the aviation industry and over 15 years of experience in the financial and commercial sections.At ALS Ltd. Nizar specializes in ALS Commercial roles, leading a team that develops and implements commercial strategies according to company goals and objectives aiming to accelerate expansion and business development.
With over 30 years of aviation experience he has held various key post holder positions and is a seasoned Pilot flying multiple aircraft types internationally. Currently he is the Director of Flight Operations for Voyageur Aviation Corp. As the Director of Flight Operations, he is responsible for the safety of flight operations and ensures that air operations are conducted in accordance with the aviation regulations, standards, company policy and Chorus values. He is responsible for compliance with Corporate Safety and Quality SMS Audits for Flight Operations and is responsible for internal oversight of QA programs for the Flight Operations Department. Acting as a liaison with EASA, FAA and TCCA for all matters relating to Flight Operations, he ensures that the Flight Operations standards are continually developed and synchronized.
Dainius is Vice President Commercial at Avion Express where he started almost 4 years ago. During this time he managed the Commercial function including ACMI (wet / damp lease) and charter sales globally.
His role involved navigating the sales of the airline through the peak periods in 2018 and 2019 as well as through very turbulent and pandemic affected 2020 and 2021.
Dainius holds degrees in Executive MBA at Baltic Management institute, Master in Business Administration and Management at Vytautas Magnus University in Lithuania as well as a Bachelor in Business Administration at the University of Bath in the UK.
Mr. Osama has an degree in “Impact of human behaviors on Business” that he obtained from Kingstone Academy, he has various educational degrees in business administration and developement, and he is a professional certified trainer, he was the principal and managed the First Interactive Talk Show (Talker) in the project Stand Up Academy which handle critical behavioral issues in Arabian Society.
Stefan Koehler
General Manager - Sahel Aviation Services
Pilot in Command 12.460 Flying Hours, 65 years of age, Experience in Aviation Safety Management and Emergency Response, accredited Quality Manager (TUEV Germany), ICRA auditor. German Armed Forces as pilot of a C 160 LTG 61, Penzing, General Manager Sahel Aviation Service from June 2013 until August 2021,
Gallery
From the floor
Resources
Presentations & downloads
PDF
Crisis Management and Response
PDF
International Cooperation in Times of Disaster
PDF
Mission Aviation Fellowship
PDF
International Cooperation in times of disaster
PDF
WFP Aviation Collaboration in Emergencies
PDF
Humanitarian Aviation
PDF
Textron Aviation
PDF
INNOVATION IN HUMANITARIAN AVIATION
PDF
Sahel
PDF
PROGRAMME ON THREAT ASSESSMENT MODELS FOR AVIATION SECURITY
PDF
GHAC 2021 Daily Digest_Day 1
PDF
Survive, Adapt, Perform
PDF
Business Continuity In Times of Disaster
PDF
UNHAS provided a lifeline that significantly reduced the severe exposure as compared to other aviation sectors
PDF
Cham wings p
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FLEME
PDF
Global Humanitarian Aviation Conference & Exhibition
PDF
IFALPA
PDF
LD
PDF
Airarabia
PDF
Emirates
PDF
GHAC 2021 Daily Digest_Day 2
PDF
13GHAC Report
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