Air Transport IT Summit Speakers

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Giovanni Bisignani
Director General and CEO, IATA


Mark Pilling
Editor, Airline Business Magazine


Francesco Violante
CEO, SITA


Paul Coby
CIO, British Airways

Idris Jala
Managing Director/CEO, Malaysia Airlines


Thomas Schnalke
Managing Director, Düsseldorf Airport


Abdul Wahab Teffaha Secretary General, Arab Air Carriers Organization (AACO)

Craig Bradbrook Director Security & Facilitation, Aiports Council International (ACI)

Edward Nicol
Director Information Management and CIO, Cathay Pacific

Abdul Wahab Teffaha
Secretary General

After his post-graduate studies in Socio - Economic Development & Political Sociology, Mr. Teffaha joined AACO as an assistant tariff analyst and rose up in the ranks until becoming Assistant Secretary General in 1992. He was elected Secretary General of the Association in June 1996 and still serves in this capacity. In his career he participated in a large number of international and regional conferences. On the regional level Mr. Teffaha played a key role in developing a new strategy for AACO based on collective power of negotiations in order to achieve better economic results for the Arab Airlines. Joint Projects were quickly launched and include to date Joint Fuel Purchasing, Joint Ground Handling, Joint MIDT Processing, the establishment of Regional Training Center and agreements with Galileo and Amadeus covering almost all the markets of the region, the launch of Joint Network Cooperation under the name of Arabesk and Deployment of E- Tickets. AACO is now working on a joint approach towards the adoption of New Generation Passenger Management systems and better empowerment of E-commerce tools.