• 52nd AGM

Biography

 

 Mr. Vijay Poonoosamy
 Moderator
 Director International and Public Affairs
 QI Group

 

 

 

Vijay Poonoosamy is the Singapore-based Director International and Public Affairs of the QI Group, an Honorary Member of the Hermes Air Transport Organisation, a Non-Executive Member of the Board of the Veling Group and a member of the Advisory Board of the World Tourism Forum Lucerne and of the World Economic Forum’s Gender Parity Steering Committee.

Vijay Poonoosamy is barrister (Middle Temple) with a law degree from the University of Nottingham, a Master’s degree in International Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science (with specialisation in Air & Space Law), a Post Graduate Diploma in Air & Space Law from the London Institute of World Affairs and a Certificate in Company Direction from the Institute of Directors in New Zealand.

Vijay was the Managing Director of Air Mauritius, the Executive Chairman of Airports of Mauritius, the Vice President International Affairs of the Etihad Aviation Group. He was Chairman of the 4th ICAO Worldwide Air Transport Conference, of the ICAO Special Group on the Warsaw Convention Governing International Air Transport, of the Air Transport Committee of the African Civil Aviation Commission, of IATA’s Industry Affairs Committee, of IATA’s Legal Advisory Council and of IATA’s Task Force on International Aviation Issues. He was also a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Mobility, of the World Travel &Tourism Council Advisors Circle, of the World Routes Advisory Panel, of the Board of Directors of US Travel Association and of the Board of Governors of the International Aviation Club of Washington, DC.

Vijay was the Moderator of the CEOs’ Roundtable at the 50th AFRAA Annual General Assembly and Summit and of the Joint Industry Group for Africa Aeropolitical Forum in 2018 and a Moderator at AFRAA’s 8th Aviation Stakeholders Convention on 13 May 2019.

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