Frank Brenner appointed EUROCONTROL Director General

Frank Brenner, the new Director General of EUROCONTROL.

Brenner: “I have always been fascinated by how ATM works and how it could work better. It has been my whole working life, from being a controller to running operations at DFS. I look forward to seeing how I and EUROCONTROL can help to make the Single European Sky a reality.”

Frank Brenner succeeded David McMillan as Director General of EUROCONTROL from 1 January 2013. Mr Brenner has worked in Air Traffic Management for his entire career. Before joining EUROCONTROL as Deputy Director General in November 2012, he was General Manager Operations for FABEC (FAB Europe Central) – the largest of the Functional Airspace Blocks, covering Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Switzerland. Mr Brenner was also Vice Chairman of EUROCONTROL’s Performance Review Commission and a member of the Performance Review Body.

He was previously with the German Air Navigation Service Provider, DFS (Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH), where he spent much of his career, holding a number of different positions including Director of the Business Unit Control Centre.

Upon taking up his new role, Mr Brenner said: “Being Director General of EUROCONTROL is both exciting and challenging. It is a wide-ranging organisation, covering the whole spectrum of ATM – from pure research to implementing practical, workable solutions, from forecasting the traffic in 10 years’ time to addressing flow management issues for this afternoon, from working with airports on Collaborative Decision Making to working with the military on the flexible use of airspace.”

He is under no illusions as to the challenges ahead, commenting: “It’s also a tough job right now as the entire ATM community is struggling to work out how to transform its performance, to become globally competitive while coping with the worst traffic downturn it has ever seen. We at EUROCONTROL are doing what we can to help by containing our own costs, by working with air navigation service providers across Europe to make the network more efficient and by developing new approaches, such as centralised services, in order to improve performance. I have always been fascinated by how ATM works and how it could work better. It has been my whole working life, from being a controller to running operations at DFS. I look forward to seeing how I and EUROCONTROL can help to make the Single European Sky a reality.”


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