Professor Graham Braithwaite is the Head of the Department of Air Transport at Cranfield University, UK.
Graham joined Cranfield in 2003 from UNSW, Sydney to become Director of the Safety and Accident Investigation Centre. Working closely with industrial partners such as the UK AAIB, RAIB and MAIB, Australian ATSB, UK CAA, Hong Kong CAD, Airbus and Rolls-Royce, the Centre delivers internationally-renowned courses in safety and risk management, airworthiness and aircraft accident investigation. The Centre also has an active group of researchers looking at topics ranging from the accident response to wreckage analysis.

Graham gained his PhD in Aviation Safety Management from Loughborough University in 1998 by examining how Australia has achieved its record of zero fatalities due to commercial jet aircraft accidents. He has presented a numerous symposia from as far afield as Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia, USA and Canada and has worked extensively on safety and human factors related topics with airlines, consultancies and regulatory agencies.

He was appointed to the Chair of Safety and Accident Investigation in 2006 and is Chairman of the Investigator Education and Training Working Group of the International Society of Air Safety Investigators. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society.

Brigadier Charles Le Gallais, CBE is the Strategy Director for the National Security and Resilience Programme at Selex Sistemi Integrati, a Finmeccanica Company. His responsibilities include the delivery of the Gold Standard Resilience Programme on behalf of the UK Cabinet Office. This Programme centres on the development of doctrine and capability requirements through exercises at the strategic level. Although the programme is centred in the UK its activities are shared with friends and allies in the international arena. He retired from the British Army as a Brigadier in 2004 having been commissioned into the Royal Corps of Signals in 1972.  He served in Great Britain, Northern Ireland, Germany and the Former Yugoslavia, where he was involved in conventional and unconventional operations.

Henning Pfisterer (37), Airport Safety Manager for Munich International Airport holds an MSc. Degree in Airport Planning and Management from Loughborough University, U.K.

He gained extensive experience in fourteen years with Munich Airport as Airport Duty Officer and in other functions of airport operations. Beside his operational duties he has been involved in consultancy projects in Athens, Brussels, Madrid and Bangkok.

Mr Pfisterer  is also appointed as Aviation Supervision Official for the Regional CAA of Upper Bavaria and as Accident Investigation Official  for the German Federal Bureau of Air Accident Investigation.

Mr Mohamed Abubaker Abdulla Farea
I started my career with British Airways before working for Gulf Air, GAMCO (now called Abu Dhabi Aviation Technologies or ADAT) and the UAE GCAA. I hold a Bachelor of Science in General Studies and a Masters degree in Business Studies and Management. I also hold a Higher Diploma in Aeronautical Engineering. I was a former director of the General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) in the UAE and the chairman of Arab Civil Aviation Commission Safety and Standards Committee. I held a variety of senior positions in the Middle East aviation sector, including roles in planning, finance, operations, technical and regulatory. Prior to joining Etihad Airways I was the Managing Director of Istithmar World Aviation Executive Jets, the executive jet operations wing of Dubai World.

Osama Altajer
A graduate of Business Studies from the University of Edinburgh, Osama has been with Gulf Air since 2003.  Prior to Gulf Air, Osama has worked at a local insurance company in Bahrain for a number of years.  Osama's interests range from travelling the world to motorsport.

Robert Missen
Originally from Oldham, England Robert read Statistics at Manchester University. He joined the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium in 1986. For the past fifteen years he has worked in the Directorate General for Transport, initially developing European legislation in the road transport sector. Following the events of 11 September 2001 he moved to the newly-created unit for Aviation Security to provide expertise in the production of European legislation. He has thus been directly involved in the development and adoption of all E.U. legislation in the field of civil aviation security. In particular, he was responsible for the rulemaking banning liquids from cabin baggage at EU airports.

Mr Nasser Juma has 20 years of experience in Aviation Industry. He holds Masters of Science Degree in Air Transport Management with merit from City University in London and Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from USA. Prior to that, he also completed Air Traffic Control Course from Dundridge College, UK and Approach Radar Course (SERCO) in Bailbrook College Bath, England. 
- His aviation career started in Fujeirah International Airport as Air Traffic Control Officer in 1987.
- In 1997 he was promoted to the post of Air Traffic Control Manager in the same airport and was given additional task as Airport Safety Manager in 2002. 
- In Feb 2008, he resigned from Fujairah International Airport and joined Abu Dhabi Airports Company (ADAC) and is now currently holding the title of VP – Safety, Security and Environment.
Mr. Nasser, attended several international, regional and national courses and seminars and participated in various aviation workshops.

H.E. Mohamed Hareb Al Yousef
Executive Director-Department of Transport
Board Member of Etihad Airways
Member of Abu Dhabi Railway Committee
Member of Higher Committee for Environment, Health and Safety.

H.E. Al Yousef began his career with Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, as a market analyst. Later he joined Dolphin Energy where he ultimately served as Deputy Vice President Marketing, responsible for implementing the Dolphin Gas Project with a focus on Business Development activities and Gas Transportation with a number of countries. In addition, H.E was a Board Member of Gulf Air representing Abu Dhabi.  

In March 2006 His Excellency was appointed as Executive Director-Aviation with Department of Transport, Abu Dhabi and is Acting Executive Director - Maritime. H.E. is a Board Member of Etihad Airways serving on its Executive Committee. H.E takes the leading role in formulating the strategic plans of the Department of Transport and is particularly focused on integrating the development of all transport sectors.

Mr Jalal Haidar, UAE Representative to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
Mr. Haidar joined the GCAA from the ICAO Secretariat, where he served in the capacity of Chief, Aviation Security Assistance and Development. In his position, he was responsible for assisting ICAO Contracting States to remedy their aviation security deficiencies, and develop their capacity and institutional practices in aviation security, in addition to the management of ICAO's global aviation security training network of 16 training centers around the world. Prior to joining the secretariat he served as a member and vice president of ICAO's aviation security panel, and chaired it's working groups on New and Emerging Threats to Civil Aviation, and the Universal Security Audit Program. He is the co-founder of the Jordan Center of Aviation Safety and Security in Amman Jordan. The center is part of ICAO's aviation security training network.

In his 22 year aviation career, Mr. Haidar served in the following senior positions;

Chief, Airport Operations, Chicago O'Hare International Airport, Vice President, Government and International Affairs, Aerospace Services International, Washington D.C. While in that position, he was assigned to oversee the construction of the new Beirut International Airport, and later appointed as the General Manager of Middle East Airport Services, the company responsible for the operation and maintenance of the airport.

He is a world known authority in aviation security, risk management and development, and has many appearances in major broadcast and print media networks. He holds a Bachelors of Science in Aviation Management, and a Master's in International and Legal Studies, from the University of Denver. He is a graduate of the US FAA Transportation Safety Institute in Oklahoma City. 

Mr. Haidar is the recipient of the Medal of Independence from His Majesty King Abduallah the Second of Jordan.

Tobias Feakin
Director Homeland Security & Resilience
Royal United Services Institute for Defense and Security Studies

Tobias is Director of the National Security and Resilience department at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies. Within this role he is responsible for the growth of a research team examining issues pertaining to radicalisation, terrorism, counter-terrorist policy and technologies, resilience, critical national infrastructure, and the security impacts of climate change. He completed his Ph.D in International Security and Politics from the University of Bradford in 2005 with a thesis entitled “Non-Lethal Weapons: Technology for Lowering Casualties”. Since that time he has worked as a Research Fellow for the Landau Network, Centro-Volta in Italy, and the Home Office arriving at RUSI in 2006. He has lectured at the University of Cambridge, University of Bradford, Joint Services Command and Staff College, the NATO Defence College in Rome, as well as speaking internationally at numerous conferences and roundtable discussions. Regularly being used by the media he has appeared on the BBC, Channel 4, NBC, Al-Jazeera, Sky News, as well as being quoted in many newspapers around the globe.

Dr. Khaled Ebrahim Almazroui General Manager Fujairah International Airport
After graduating from St. Louis University, USA, with a Bachelor of Science in Aeronautics 1990, he obtained a Masters Degree in Business Administration in Aviation & a Masters Degree in Aeronautical Science in 1993 from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA. Dr. Khaled Almazroui joined Fujairah International Airport and worked in different positions until 2001 when he became the GM of the airport. In June 2006, he obtained his Doctoral degree in Business Administration, specializing in Marketing Management from University of Lincoln, UK. He currently lectures on a part-time basis, the Business and Marketing courses at Ajman University.

Gill Sparrow is Manager Contingency Response Planning for Emirates, which serves 100 destinations in 61 countries including 10 freighter only routes. The airline employs more than 35,000 staff, from over 120 nationalities throughout its network, and is one of the fastest growing airlines in the world.

Gill joined Emirates at the start of 2008, and takes over a large portfolio which includes managing the Crisis Response for a large hub operation, Corporate training of staff and volunteers, the Emergency Call Centre response, and managing the ever increasing outstation plans. The greatest challenge is in the creation of realistic and robust plans for airports, many of which operate in third world countries with limited resources.

Growing up in Africa and then living for most of her life in the Middle East, Gill has been exposed to working and living in some extremely harsh environments. Prior to joining Emirates, Gill spent 13 years working for British Airways.

Alan May is involved in the Aon aviation claims catastrophe management and loss prevention.

Alan has over 40 years of aviation claims experience in the global insurance community representing the clients of Aon and predecessor companies.

He is managing director of claims in the Aon Global Aviation & Aerospace department, responsible for client services which encompasses claims, crisis response, loss prevention and catastrophe management.

Alan has been involved in handling and negotiating some of the world’s largest and high profile catastrophe losses.

Alan is also a member of the Aviation Claims and Claims supervisor committees of the London and International Insurance Brokers Association.

Bill Nelson
Associate Arup Security Consulting
Business Leader Middle East and N Africa.

Bill Nelson retired from the British Army after a career spanning 26 years spent in Military Intelligence. He has extensive experience in risk analysis and mitigation strategy development in a number of high-risk environments. He leads Arup Security Consulting in the Middle East and is regarded as a subject expert on the region as well as the Former Soviet Union. He is currently involved in a number of security projects in the built environment across the Arabian Gulf.

David Cormie
Principal Security Consultant
Arup Security Consulting

David Cormie is a Chartered Civil and Structural Engineer specialising in blast and structural resilience and in the behaviour of structures under extreme load. Since joining Arup Security Consulting in 2006 as a senior blast consultant, he has led the design of a variety of buildings and facilities to be resilient against terrorist attack, including the new midfield terminal at Abu Dhabi International Airport. His projects typically utilise a risk-led approach to develop coherent, multi-disciplinary security strategies integrated with the requirements of other design disciplines. David has particular interests in the dynamic response of glazing systems to blast loading, and the ultimate collapse analysis of structures and their design to avoid progressive or disproportionate collapse. David has spoken at numerous conferences about designing buildings to be resilient against terrorism, has published widely and gives short courses in blast engineering to structural and facade engineers.

SID HAWKINS

SID HAWKINS, CMIOSH, SpDipEM, I.Eng,
Engineering Support & HSE Manager
Air Accidents Investigation Branch

Joined the Air Accidents Investigation Branch, UK, in 1993 after completing an extended career in aircraft engineering. Manages the engineering support, occupational safety, and environment functions throughout the range of AAIB operations.

Has provided on-call response to air accidents, and the subsequent post crash management of air accident site operations, throughout the UK and offshore since 1993. 

During his time in post he has assisted in developing UK strategy for the post crash management of civil air accidents. Provides advice, guidance and liaison on aspects of major accidents response to the UK Emergency Services, civil contingency planners, airlines, airport operators, insurance surveyors, and for authorities in UK overseas territories.  

Has been a member of national and international working groups, (including for ICAO, CAA/MoD, and UK Flight Safety Committee) tasked with reviewing and compiling occupational safety information, identifying safety management systems and proposing training requirements for air accidents responders.  

Is an occasional lecturer at Cranfield University on accidents investigation and hazards awareness courses.