Specialties: Air Traffic Management, Satellite-Based Navigation, Aviation Safety and Regulatory Affairs
Andrej Němec holds an MSc in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” and has more than 12 years international work experience in the aviation sector.
During his career he acquired extensive knowledge of all the major issues related to the aviation sector, such as aviation safety, aviation regulations, sustainability and environmental problems of air transport.
He covered management roles for aviation industry trade bodies like ACI EUROPE (Airports Council International) and EBAA (European Business Aviation Association) and worked as Brussel representative for INECO, a Spanish company global leader in transport engineering and consultancy for which he also served as GNSS and Air Traffic Management Engineer, leading implementation projects that successfully demonstrated the technical and socio-economic benefits of Satellite-Based Air Navigation Systems.
He possesses a high degree of understanding of EU Lobbying, EU legislation monitoring in the transport policy area, Business Development and Coalition Building strategies.
Former member of the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) Advisory Board, of the Subcommittee on Flight Standards (FS) and Subcommittee on Aerodromes (ADR) of the EASA Safety Standards Consultative Committee (SSCC) and of the European Commercial Aviation Safety Team (ECAST), he has excellent lobbying experience with those EU institutions that play an active role in the aviation safety rulemaking process, such as EASA, the European Parliament TRAN Committee and the European Commission DG MOVE.
A Slovenian-Italian national, he speaks fluent English, French and Spanish, and has good command of German and Serbo-Croatian.
