Board of Governors as well as a representative for airspace users to SESAR Master Planning Committee, Pascal is further supporting the business aviation needs.

Pascal has been flying and holding managerial roles during his whole career. He started off in the Belgium Air Force, where after graduation he flew the F-16 and T-38 in the U.S. Air Force followed by 6 years in the airlines

oversee the technical panels that develop those standards. Previously, Don served as the FAA group manager in charge of the development and implementation of a suite of aviation modernization programs, including aeronautical information management, NextGen weather systems, flight services program, unmanned aerial systems, air traffic flow/collaborative decision making, and system-wide information management.

Don has more than ten years of direct experience in international relations. He was stationed in Brussels, Belgium as the FAA air traffic representative to Europe, Middle East and Africa. Don was also stationed in Singapore as the FAA senior international representative to Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. Don has a strong link to the FAA NextGen modernization initiative and was previously in charge of the NextGen international office.

ATM stakeholders, to manage & support European ATM/CNS planning, deployment, reporting, and monitoring programs digitizing the Single European Sky (SES).

Didier is now an Airbus multi-systems aircraft architect in the ATM engineering program working on the Airbus Group ATM/UTM strategy, the harmonization of the worldwide ATM modernization programs and international collaboration. Didier is also a member of the ICCAIA CSN/ATM committee for the ICAO affairs; the SESAR ATM Master Plan Committee, the NAC Sub-Committee and European focal point for the FAA/SJU Coordination Plan on “Avionics technologies and applications roadmap.”

Ken Alexander is the FAA’s chief scientific and technical advisor (CSTA) for Satellite Navigation Systems, with over 45 years of aviation experience in aircraft and avionics engineering, program management, flight tests, and international policy. Mr. Alexander provides technical advice on requirements, design, performance, radio-frequency spectrum, and policy issues for Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). Mr. Alexander’s significant technical contributions ensure continued backward compatibility, improved performance, delivery of new capabilities, and protection of GPS/GNSS avionics systems from spectrum interference. He was instrumental in the development of the initial 2004 National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Policy.

Mr. Alexander is vice chair of the ICAO Navigation Systems Panel, and he co-chairs the U.S. and European Union working group on GNSS modernization. He also serves as the Department of Transportation’s senior advisor for the National Space-Based PNT Executive Committee and as the civil co-chair of the National PNT Engineering Forum (NPEF) with his U.S. Space Force counterpart. Mr. Alexander is a principal author of Executive Order 13905, Strengthening National Resilience Through Responsible Use of PNT Services. He has over 3,500 flight hours as a U.S. Air Force transport pilot. Mr. Alexander earned a B.S. in electrical engineering and an M.S. in engineering from the University of Louisville.

Spectrum Management Panel (FSMP) of ICAO’s Air Navigation Commission.

Loftur joined ICAO in 2007, major responsibilities being Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPs) for aeronautical Communication, Navigation and Surveillance (CNS) systems, and aeronautical frequency spectrum management as well as representation of ICAO and aeronautical interests at the ITU World Radiocommunication Conferences and other international radio regulatory fora. Secretary of the Aeronautical Communications Panel (ACP), 2007 – 2014. Secretary of the FSMP, 2014 – present.

As an electrical engineer (Telecommunications), since 1992 he has worked mainly in the field of aeronautical and maritime radio and telecommunications. His background, in addition to aeronautical communications systems, includes a variety of maritime tasks, including being the project lead for the development and rollout of one of the world’s first marine vessel tracking systems, long before this became an international standard, at that time tracking a fleet of 2000+ ships through automatic position reporting by means of multiple routes, including VHF and satellite.

Prior to joining ICAO, over 15 years of experience with various aeronautical radio- and telecommunication engineering tasks and projects, mainly in support of air-ground and ground-ground voice and data communications and surveillance applications in the North Atlantic region. Since 1996 an active member of the ACP (previously Aeronautical Mobile Communications Panel, AMCP), including the chairmanship (Rapporteur) of two of its long-standing working groups.

career. He currently serves as the director of government services within Collins Aerospace. In this senior leadership position, he is responsible for managing the company’s portfolio of services and solutions for the U.S. Federal Government and International Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs).

Prior to coming to Collins, he held key positions at CACI, L3, and Boeing developing a global perspective on aviation working with many of the leading global organizations on aviation policy, operational, and technical issues around airspace modernization concepts.

Mr. Hayman is very active in the aviation community serving in different leadership positions, committees, and contributing to critical initiatives, including:

(LDACS), as well as for surveillance purposes, such as Extended Squitter (ES) and Universal Access Transceiver (UAT). At EUROCONTROL, he oversees the activities relating to the future aeronautical communication infrastructure (FCI). In the context of SESAR, he is responsible for supporting the various COM solutions in the SESAR2020 PJ14 project, as well as overseeing the relevant international coordination aspects with ICAO and the U.S. FAA under Coordination Plan 4.4. Since 2018, he has also been supporting the ongoing datalink deployment activities in Europe and the SESAR Deployment Manager, leading EUROCONTROL’s technical contribution to the relevant European-funded projects. He has been representing EUROCONTROL in various international standardization groups, such as ICAO, EUROCAE, RTCA, AEEC and ETSI, covering data-link aspects. He currently leads the ICAO Communication Panel Project Team SATCOM, which is tasked to update the ICAO SATCOM provisions (SARPs and Manual). He holds a Master of Science in electrical engineering from the University of Thessaloniki and a Master of Science in communications and signal processing and a doctorate in digital communications and array signal processing, both from Imperial College, London.