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NATIONALCIVIL AVIATIONDEVELOPMENTFORUMMaking Ireland The Most CompetitiveAviation Country In The World20th February 2017 - Dublin Castle, Ireland

NATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION DEVELOPMENT F ORUMMaking Ireland The Most Competitive Aviation Country In The World20th February 2017 - Dublin Castle, IrelandCONFERENCE PROGRAMMEConference Moderator: George Lee, Economist and Broadcaster08.30Registration & Networking Coffee09.00Welcome address from Shane Ross, TD, Minister for Transport, Tourism & SportCOMPLETING THE INTERNATIONAL AIR TRANSPORT LIBERALISATION PROCESS –WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN NEXT?09.20Keynote address: Henrik Hololei, Director General of DG MOVE, European Commission09.40Panel Discussion involving Eamonn Brennan (IAA), Henrik Hololei (EC), Stephen Kavanagh (AerLingus), Michael O’Leary (Ryanair), Matthew Thomas (Shannon Group), Kevin Toland (daa).10.30Coffee BreakAVIATION: THE CRITICAL ENABLER FOR IRISH BUSINESS AND THE IRISH ECONOMY11.00Keynote address: Danny Mccoy, CEO, IBECGROWING AND EXPLOITING IRELAND’S AVIATION INDUSTRY CAPABILITIES11.20Keynote Address: Peter Morris, Chief Economist at Flight Global Ascend11.40Panel Discussion involving Patrick Edmond (International Aviation Services Centre, Shannon),Aengus Kelly (Aercap), Conor McCarthy (Dublin Aerospace), Danny McCoy (IBEC),Peter Morris (Flight Global Ascend), Andy O’Shea (Ryanair)A VISION FOR IRISH AVIATION – RE-THINKING THE NATIONAL AVIATION POLICY12.30Conclusions from the Conference: Fintan Towey, Assistant Secretary, Department of Transport,Tourism & Sport13.00Networking Lunch

NATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION DEVELOPMENT F ORUMEamonn Brennan, Chief Executive, Irish Aviation AuthorityEamonn Brennan is Chief Executive of the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) with responsibilityfor the provision of Air Traffic Management (ATM) in Irish controlled airspace, aeronauticalcommunications on the North Atlantic, and Air Traffic Control at the major Irish Airports,as well as the safety and security regulation of the Irish civil aviation industry. Mr Brennanis also a member of the Board of Aireon, established to launch the world’s first satellitebased air traffic surveillance system from 2018, and a member of the Board of Entry PointNorth, an international provider of Air Traffic Controller training services. He is currentlythe Vice-Chairman of the COOPANS Alliance Board (comprising of the ANSPs of Austria,Croatia, Denmark, Ireland and Sweden). He was Chairman of the Eurocontrol ChiefExecutive’s Standing Conference 2004-2006 and Chairman of the Air Navigation ServicesBoard of Eurocontrol 2006-2007. He was a member of the Executive Board of the Civil AirNavigation Services Organisation (CANSO) from 2005 to 2011.Patrick Edmond, Group Strategy Director andManaging Director of IASC, Shannon GroupPatrick Edmond is responsible for Shannon Group’s strategic projects and, as ManagingDirector for the International Aviation Services Centre, for expanding an aviation industrycluster at Shannon Airport. He is an Engineering graduate of Trinity College Dublin andalso holds an MSc in Air Transport Management from Cranfield University as well as anMBA from Purdue University. He has over 20 years’ experience in strategy, consultancy,aircraft leasing, and airlines.Henrik Hololei Director General “Mobility and Transport”(DG MOVE), European CommissionSince 1st October, 2015, Henrik Hololei has held the position of Director General of theEuropean Commission’s directorate for “Mobility and Transport (DG MOVE). Prior to that,he was Deputy Secretary General of the European Commission. From 2013 he was Headof Cabinet of Vice-President of the European Commission, Siim Kallas, responsible forTransport and Mobility. His professional experience prior to joining the EU institutions in2004 has included Chief Government Counsellor for EU Affairs and Director of the Office ofEuropean Integration in the Estonian Government Office.

Stephen Kavanagh, CEO, Aer LingusStephen Kavanagh was appointed as Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of AerLingus on 1 March 2015. Previously he had served as the Airline’s Chief Strategy & PlanningOfficer since early 2014, and, before that, he was Chief Commercial Officer from 2009. Hejoined the Company in 1988 and undertook a number of analytical and management rolesin fleet scheduling and business planning departments before being appointed OperationsPlanning Manager in 2003. He joined the senior management team in March 2006 asPlanning Director and was appointed Corporate Planning Director in November 2007. Heis a graduate of University College Dublin.Aengus Kelly, CEO, AercapAengus Kelly is CEO and Executive Director of AerCap, the global leader in aircraft leasingand aviation finance. Kelly was appointed Chief Executive Officer of AerCap in May 2011.From January 2008 to May 2011, he was Chief Executive Officer of AerCap’s U.S. operations.Kelly served as AerCap’s Group Treasurer from 2005 to the end of 2007. Kelly started hiscareer in the aviation leasing and financing business with Guinness Peat Aviation (GPA) in1998 and has continued working with its successors AerFi in Ireland and debis AirFinanceand AerCap in Amsterdam and Dublin. Prior to joining GPA in 1998, he spent three yearswith KPMG in Dublin. Kelly is a Chartered Accountant and holds a Bachelor’s degree inCommerce and a Master’s degree in Accounting from University College Dublin.George Lee, Economist (Conference Moderator)George Lee is an Irish economist, journalist, television and radio presenter, and former FineGael politician. He worked for RTÉ from 1992 to 2009 and was appointed Economics Editorin 1996. During his time in RTÉ News and Current Affairs he was named Irish Journalist ofthe Year and he has presented many documentary programmes for RTÉ. George Lee waselected to Dáil Eireann in June, 2009. In 2010 he resigned both from Fine Gael and fromDáil Éireann. He returned to RTÉ in 2010 and presented “Mind Your Business” and currentlypresents “The Business” on RTE Radio 1. He is currently RTÉ’s Agriculture and EnvironmentCorrespondent.NATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION DEVELOPMENT F ORUM

Conor McCarthy, Executive Chairman, Dublin AerospaceConor McCarthy joined the airline industry as an Aircraft Avionics Apprentice at the ageof 16 and spent 18 years with Aer Lingus where he overhauled the Airline’s TransatlanticOperation with the introduction of the Airbus A330 in the mid ‘90s. In 1996 he moved toRyanair as Director of Group Operations. Mr McCarthy is a co-founder, shareholder andformer director of AirAsia and its affiliates in Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines and India.In 2009 he established Dublin Aerospace and following on from the successful launchand growth, he won the 2011 Ernst & Young Irish Entrepreneur of the Year (EmergingCategory).Danny McCoy, CEO, IbecDanny McCoy is Chief Executive Officer of Ibec, a post he assumed in July 2009. Priorto joining Ibec he was a senior economist at both the Economic and Social ResearchInstitute (ESRI) and the Central Bank of Ireland. He has held lecturing posts at Dublin CityUniversity, University College London, University of Oxford and Trinity College Dublin. Hehas been a consultant for the European Commission and the OECD. He is a member of theIrish National Competitiveness Council, the National Economic and Social Council and theExport Trade Council.Peter Morris, Chief Economist, FlightAscendPeter Morris is FlightAscend’s Chief Economist, and is responsible for projects concerningairports, airlines, market demand analysis, forecasting and new aircraft and productresearch. Prior to joining Ascend’s Consultancy team in 2003, Mr Morris was IATA’sChief Economist and headed the IATA Research Consultancy Department. Over theprevious ten years he built up the Aviation Information & Research Dept for IATA to beone of the Industry’s leading suppliers of Market Research, Statistical and ForecastingInformation. He has been responsible for the direction and management of more thanfifty international studies including in the areas of aviation strategy, forecasting, marketresearch, new product research and cargo. He is a regular media commentator on issuesconnected with aviation policy and industry trends.

Michael O’Leary, CEO, RyanairMichael O’Leary has served as Ryanair CEO since 1993. Born in a stable, at Christmas in 1961,he was a boy genius who excelled academically and in the sports field. Having representedIreland at bog snorkelling and flower arranging, he graduated from Trinity College Dublinas soon as they could get rid of him. He became a very boring KPMG accountant until yetanother failed career choice sentenced to him to lifelong servitude in the airline business,as he is manifestly unsuitable for employment in any properly functioning industry.Unlike many successful businessmen he holds no honorary doctorates or titles, since norespectable institution would wish to have its reputation tarnished by association with him.Bearing a remarkable resemblance to George Clooney’s younger brother, it is widely knownthat women find him (sadly) resistible, and his 4 children think he’s “stupid”!!Captain Andy O’Shea, DCP Flight Standards& Head of Training RyanairAndy O’Shea commenced flying with the Irish Air Corps in 1977 and joined Ryanair in1992. He has been the Ryanair Head of Training since 2002 and has managed the trainingstandards of thousands of pilots and cabin crew as the airline expanded from 25 aircraftto its current fleet of 370 B737NGs. Mr O’Shea is active in the International Pilot TrainingAssociation, a member of the EASA Aircrew Training Policy Group and the FCL Training andPartnership Group. He is a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. As part of the NationalCivil Aviation Development Forum (NCADF), he chaired a Working Group on “Growing PilotTraining in Ireland”.Matthew Thomas, CEO, Shannon GroupMatthew Thomas was appointed the CEO of Shannon Group as well as a director of theBoard of the Group, on 20th June 2016. Before moving to Shannon, Mr Thomas led the 4bn privatisation of La Guardia Airport in his role as Chief Commercial Officer of VantageAirport Group. He was involved in the majority of Vantage’s thirty airport projects acrossfour continents, as well as being a director of a number of airports in the Vantage portfolioincluding Nassau, Bahamas, Montego Bay, Jamaica and Santiago in Chile. He has also heldsenior management positions at Vancouver Airport, Liverpool John Lennon Airport, Larnacaand Paphos in Cyprus, Sydney, Copenhagen and Newcastle airports.NATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION DEVELOPMENT F ORUM

Kevin Toland, Chief Executive, daaKevin Toland became Chief Executive of daa in January 2013. Prior to joining the company,he was Chief Executive and President of Glanbia USA & Global Nutritionals, based in Chicago,Illinois. Previous roles at Glanbia, included Group Development Director, Chief Executive ofConsumer Foods and Director of Strategy and Marketing. Before joining Glanbia, he held anumber of senior management positions with Coca Cola Bottlers in Russia and with GrandMetropolitan in Ireland and Central Europe.Fintan Towey, Director General of Civil Aviation,Department of Transport, Tourism & SportFintan Towey is a career civil servant with extensive experience in network industriesspanning transport, energy and telecommunications. Before being appointed DirectorGeneral of Civil Aviation, Fintan most recently held senior roles in public transport, civilaviation and corporate management. Civil aviation responsibilities embraced internationalagreements, air navigation services policy, regulatory structures and airline relations. Duringa Brussels posting, he represented Ireland on the European Council of Ministers’ WorkingGroups for Aviation and Land Transport and chaired the Groups for a Presidency term.www.dttas.ie/ncadf #aviationconf

Aengus Kelly is CEO and Executive Director of AerCap, the global leader in aircraft leasing and aviation finance. Kelly was appointed Chief Executive Officer of AerCap in May 2011. From January 2008 to May 2011, he was Chief Executive Officer of AerCap's U.S. operations. Kelly served as AerCap's Group Treasurer from 2005 to the end of 2007.