ICNS 2025 Day 3 Overview

Thursday, 10 April 2025

Host Welcome

Andreas Boschen, Executive Director, SJU

Andreas Boschen has been executive director of the SESAR 3 Joint Undertaking since July 2022. Between 2014 and 2022, Boschen led the department for the Connecting Europe Facility at the Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA), where he managed European Union financial support to infrastructure projects in the areas of transport and energy.

He started his professional career as a diplomat in Germany taking care of European Union affairs, joining the European Commission’s Secretariat General in 1998 to manage relations between the European Commission, Parliament, Council, and other bodies. He then moved on to Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport (DG MOVE) where he held several notable positions, including policy officer for the Single European Sky (SES), policy officer for maritime safety, and assistant to the director-general of DG MOVE.

Opening Keynote

Pascal Luciani, Deputy Director ANB, ICAO

Pascal Luciani is an engineer with 25 years of experience in transport in the civil administration of France and international organizations, 15 years of which in civil aviation.

Prior to joining the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) as deputy director for air navigation and aviation safety, he served as deputy director for the French Safety Oversight Authority from 2018 to 2022. From 2014 to 2018 Pascal was the aviation counselor at the Permanent Representation for France with the European Union, covering all fields of aviation and was also responsible for shipping. In 2008 he was tasked with creating the Sustainable Aviation Department, DGAC, France, which he headed from 2008 to 2013.

Pascal’s experience in public service before joining the aviation sector includes road infrastructure and road safety (1997 – 2001) and port infrastructure and development (2001- 2005). He also served for two years as technical advisor for the Ministers of Environment and Transport (2005 – 2007). Pascal also headed the modernization mission in charge of supervising the merging of the Ministries of Transport and Environment in France (2007-2008).