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Conference Speakers and Panelists
Conference organization
Keynote Speakers
- Mr. Hjalmar Arnason, Director of Keilir - Atlantic Centre of Excellence
- Mr. Arni Sigfusson, Chairman of Keilir - Atlantic Centre of Excellence
Session Chairmen
- Mr. Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, President of Iceland
- Dr. Haraldur Sigurdsson, Volcanologist and Emeritus Professor of Oceanography
- Mr. Daniel Calleja-Crespo, Director Air Transport, EUROPEAN Commission
- Captain Eric Moody, British Airways (Ret.)
Session 1: What happened and what needs to be done
- Session 1: Dr. Thorgeir Palsson, Professor University of Reykjavik
- Session 2: Mr. Graham Lake, Director General CANSO
- Session 3: Mr. Jon Sigurdsson, assistant professor of BA, University of Reykjavik
- Session 4: Dr. Petur K. Maack, Director General ICAA
- Session 5: Dr. Jens Bjarnason, VP Technical Services, Icelandair
- Session 6: Dr. Haraldur Sigurdsson, Volcanologist and Emeritus Professor of Oceanography
- Session 7: Dr. Arni Snorrason, Director of IMO- Icelandic Meteorological Office
- Session 8: Dr. Thorgeir Palsson, Professor University of Reykjavik
Session 2: The Impact on European and Global Air Transportation
- Ms. Nancy Graham, Director ICAO Air Navigation Bureau
- Mr. Luis Fonseca Dealmeida, President of ECAC
- Mr. Gunther Matschnigg, Senior Vice President for Safety, Operations and Infrastructure, IATA
- Mr. Ulrich Schulte-Strathaus, Secretary General, AEA
- Mr. Bo Redeborn, Director Cooperative Network Design, Eurocontrol
- Mr. Klaus Sturm, Head of Department Aeronautical Meteorology, German National Meteorological Service
- Mr. David Learmount, Safety Editor at Flight International
Session 3: The Global Economic Dimension
- Mr. Peter Sorensen, Policy Officer, Single Sky and modernisation of air traffic control, European Commission DG Move
- Mr. John Vincent, Head of Safety Analysis and Research Department, EASA
- Mr. Henrik Littorin, Director Public Relations, Swedavia
- Mr. Tom Hendricks, ATA Vice President-Operations and Safety
- Mr. Birkir Holm Gudnason, CEO Icelandair
- Mr. Asgeir Palsson, Director of ANS, ISAVIA and Chairman NAT/SPG
- Mr. Andrey Shnyrev, Deputy Director of the Department for the National Civil Aviation Policy, Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation
Session 4: Safety Aspects
- Mr. Stephen Perkins, Head of Centre Joint Transport Research Centre of the OECD and the International Transport Forum
- Mr. Geoffrey Lipman, Special Adviser to the UNWTO Secretary-General United Nations World Tourism Organization
Session 5: Technical Dimensions
- Mr. Karsten Theil, Regional Director of ICAO’s European and North Atlantic Office
- Mr. Reynir Sigurdsson, Director ANS and Aerodromes, Iceland Civil Aviation Administration
- Mr. Padhraic Kelleher, Head of the Airworthiness Division, UK Civil Aviation Authority
- Mr. David Strand, American Airlines, the airline representative to the ICAO working group on volcanic ash
- Mr. Tom Fahey, Mgr. Meteorology & Radio, Delta Air Lines
- Captain Robert (Bob) Graves, Director of flight operations Alaska Airlines
- Dr. John Eichelberger, US Geological Survey
- Mr. Evgeny Gordeev, Russian Academy of Sciences and Director Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, FEB RAS
- Mr. Carlos Garcia Royo, ATPL First officer, A340 Iberia, MSc. Geologist
- Mr. Karl Fridriksson, President of ICEALDA and Vice President of IFALDA
Session 6: Scientific Dimension – Volcanic Eruptions
- Mr. Douglas Kihm, Boeing Technical Fellow, Certification & ETOPS, Boeing Commercial Airplanes
- Capt. M. Manfred Birnfeld, senior flight test engineer at Airbus Flight Test Division
- Mr. Patrick Emmott, Senior Vice President Technical Service, Rolls-Royce
- Eng. Jacques, Renvier, Senior Vice President, System engineering and integration, Snecma/CFM partner
Session 7: Volcanic Ash Detection and Cloud Forecasting
- Dr. William Aspinall, Geophysicist and Professor University of Bristol, UK
- Dr. Freysteinn Sigmundsson, Director, Nordic Volcanological Institute, University of Iceland
- Dr. Armann Hoskuldsson, Senior research scientist at the Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Iceland
- Dr. Kristin Vogfjord, Senior scientist, Icelandic Meteorological Office
- Dr. Constanza Bonadonna, Volcanologist and Prof. University of Geneva, Switzerland
- Dr. Fred Prata, Senior scientist, NILU, Norway
Session 8: Global Actions – Steps to be taken
- Mr. Ian Lisk, Meteorologist, WMO Manager, Met Office, UK
- Dr. Sigrun Karlsdottir, Director of natural hazards, Icelandic Meteorological Office
- Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schumann, Director DLR
- Dr. Jonas Eliasson, Professor Emeritus, University of Iceland
- Dr. Haraldur Ólafsson, Professor in atmospheric sciences, Dpt. of Physics, University of Iceland and Icelandic Meteorological Office
- Dr. Nickolay A. Krotkov, Senior Research Scientist GEST/UMBC, NASA/GSFC
- Dr. Claus Zehner, Earth Observation Applications Engineer, ESA/ESRIN
- Dr. Fred Prata, Senior scientist, NILU, Norway and member of ESA-EUMSETSAT workgroup
- Mr. Anatoly Kvochur, Senior Designer of the Gromov Flight Research Institute, Russia
Presentations at Lunch on Thursday 16 September
- Mr. Peter Sorensen, Policy Officer, Single Sky and modernisation of air traffic control, European Commission DG Move
- Ms. Nancy Graham, Director ICAO Air Navigation Bureau
- Mr. Gunther Matschnigg, Senior Vice President for Safety, Operations and Infrastructure, IATA
- Mr. Ulrich Schulte-Strathaus, Secretary General, AEA
- Dr. Petur K. Maack, Director General, CAA-Iceland
- Mr. Steve Creamer, Brussels FAA Executive Director Africa, Europe, and the Middle East - FAA International Offices
- Mr. Jean Pierre Mesure, Airworthiness and Flight Operations deputy director, Civil aviation safety directorate DGAC-FRANCE
- Mr. Birkir Holm Gudnasoon, CEO Icelandair
- Mr. Hilmar B. Baldursson, VP Flight Operations, Icelandair
- Ms. Christine Negroni, Aviation journalist and published author, member of the International Society of Air Safety Investigators







