ICNS 2025 Day 1 Overview

Tuesday, 8 April 2025

Host Welcome

Raúl Medina, Director General, EUROCONTROL

Raúl Medina has been the director general of EUROCONTROL since January 2023. Previously, between 2015 and 2022, he was director general of civil aviation at the Spanish Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda and president of the Spanish Aviation Safety and Security Agency (AESA).

During those years, he was also member of the boards of directors of ENAIRE (Spanish Air Navigation Service Provider), SENASA (Services and Studies for Air Navigation and Aeronautical Safety) and INTA (National Institute for Aerospace Technology), as well as member of the ENAIRE Foundation, which works to promote aviation culture. At international level, Raúl was vice-president of ECAC (European Civil Aviation Conference) and a member of the ECAC Coordinating Committee. He was the president of the ICAO Technical Commission during the last ICAO Assembly. He has also worked as a consultant for the World Bank’s Sustainable Development Department in Washington D.C. and as a systems engineer for Siemens.

Raúl was born in Madrid, Spain. He holds a Master of Science in Aeronautical Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid and a Master of Public Administration from Columbia University, New York City, with a specialisation in economic policy management. He was the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship for his studies at Columbia. He has received the Great Cross of Aeronautical Merit, awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Defence, and the Order of Civil Merit, awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs,

Opening Keynote

Florian Guillermet, Executive Director, EASA

Florian Guillermet has been executive director of the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) since April 2024.

He has worked in the aviation sector for over 25 years, holding top-level management posts in France and the European Union. In addition to extensive leadership experience, he has acquired profound knowledge of many aviation domains, particularly safety and air traffic management (ATM).

Guillermet joined EASA from France’s air navigation service provider DSNA, where he had been director of air navigation services since June 2021. Prior to that, he was executive director at SESAR Joint Undertaking (SJU). He stepped up to this role in 2014, after two years as deputy executive director of the SJU.

He held various positions at EUROCONTROL from 2003 to 2011, ranging from system developments to operational service delivery. His earlier work experience involved various aviation roles in France.

Guillermet studied engineering, including applied mathematics, computer science and business administration at the École Polytechnique in Paris and has a master’s degree in air transport management and aeronautics from the French National School for Aviation (ENAC). He also studied at UCLA in Los Angeles, California.