Judging Process :: Strategy Awards 2013

The process

Judging is undertaken by an independant panel of highly respected industry professionals that includes analysts and former chief executives.

The panel

	Geoff Dixon Geoff Dixon stepped down in November 2008 after eight years as Managing Director and Chief Executive of Qantas. He currently sits on the Boards of publicly listed Australian companies, Crown Limited, Consolidated Media Holdings Limited and Facilitate Digital. He is Chairman of the Australian Government agency responsible for the international and domestic marketing of Australia as a destination for leisure and business travel – Tourism Australia and Chairman of the Garvan Medical Research Foundation.

	Professor Rigas Doganis Professor Doganis advises governments and airlines on air transport policy. Until 1997 he was head of the air transport department at Cranfield University. He became chairman of Olympic Airways in the mid-1990s, implementing a major restructuring programme. He was until 2006 non-executive director of South African Airways and sits on the boards of Hyderabad International Airport and EasyJet. Doganis is author of several books on air transport, the latest being The Airline Business, a new edition of which appeared early in 2006.

	Doug Steenland Douglas M Steenland was President and Chief Executive Officer of Northwest Airlines Corporation and its principal subsidiary, Northwest Airlines Inc, from 2004 until its merger with Delta Air Lines in October 2008. He held a number of executive positions since joining Northwest in 1991, including President from 2001 to 2004, Executive Vice-President and Chief Corporate Officer from 1999 to 2001, and Executive Vice-President–Alliances, General Counsel and Secretary in 1999. Doug is also an independent director of American International Group and Digital River.

	Chris Tarry Chris Tarry, one of the most highly rated aviation analysts in the London market, established independent consultancy CTAIRA in 2002. Prior to that, he headed airline analysis at Commerz-bank. Previously he headed European transport research at Dresdner Kleinworth Benson, leading a number of major international share issues. He writes a monthly column in Airline Business and also lectures at the UK’s London School of Economics and Cranfield University, as well as holding a Senior Visiting Fellowship at the University of Surrey.

	Ray Webster Ray Webster was the Chief Executive of EasyJet during its first 10 years,standing down in 2005. He currently sits on the Boards of Kuoni Travel Holding, listed in Zurich, and Pegasus Airlines, a low-cost airline based in Istanbul. He also sits on the Advisory Board of the Sloan Management Program at Stanford University, California. He consults to the airline and travel industry, focusing on the low cost sector. Prior to joining EasyJet, he had an extended career with Air New Zealand in a range of commercial and technical roles, holding the post of Director of Strategy at time of departure.
	Chairman - Max Kingsley-Jones Max Kingsley-Jones was appointed Editor of Airline Business in December 2010, having previously spent 14 years with Flight International magazine where he was ultimately Deputy Editor. Prior to joining Flight in May 1996 as Commercial Aviation Editor he spent 10 years working in various roles at UK aviation consultancy Airclaims, which is now Ascend and part of Flightglobal. The move to Airline Business followed a short spell with Aviation Week magazine as London bureau chief.

	Facilitation - Michael Bell Michael Bell co-leads the global aviation practice of Spencer Stuart, one of the world¹s top executive search firms. He previously spent six years with McKinsey, where he managed consulting relations with clients. The aviation practice is now a key area for Spencer Stuart, which specialises in senior-level executive search and board director appointments. Overall, the company has over 50 offices in 24 countries, conducting several thousand senior-level searches each year for clients from blue-chip corporations to small start-ups.

	Facilitation - Thierry Lindenau Based in Singapore and France, Thierry Lindenau co-leads the Global Aviation Practice Group of Spencer Stuart, one of the world¹s top executive search firms. Prior to joining Spencer Stuart, Lindenau was a senior consultant and later a partner at Kienbaum Executive Search in Munich.