IATA’s New Director General To Navigate Industry Headwinds

Saadia Zahidi
Credit: IATA
The next and ninth IATA director general (DG) will be a woman and someone who has never worked at an airline. This is a wow moment for an association that represents more than 370 airlines and has been led by former airline CEOs for most of its history, all of them male and of European descent...
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