Karen Walker is Air Transport World Editor-in-Chief and Aviation Week Network Group Air Transport Editor-in-Chief. She joined ATW in 2011 and oversees the editorial content and direction of ATW, Routes and Aviation Week Group air transport content.
Karen serves on the board of directors of the International Aviation Club of Washington and was the IAC’s President in 2017-2018.
Karen has been writing about the aerospace and air transport industries for more than 35 years and is a recognized authority and commenter on the airline industry. She is a regular speaker and moderator at aviation events worldwide and a commentator on radio and TV news programs. In 2019, she was a judge and a presenter for IATA’s inaugural diversity awards.
Based in Washington D.C., she gained her degree in journalism in the U.K. and is a multiple winner of the Royal Aeronautical Society’s aerospace journalism awards.
She is the recipient of the Aerospace Media Awards 2021 Aerospace Writer of the Year.
Biofuel company Algae.Tec, which in September signed a collaborative agreement with Lufthansa, has gained approval from the Australian government for an A$12.15 million cash refund on Australian and overseas development expenditure for the financial years 30 June 2012 to 30 June 2015. The deal allows for an initial A$27 million spend on Algae.Tec technology developments, of which the Australian government will reimburse 45% or $12.15 million. The money will support funding of at least three algae bioreactor facilities in Australia, Asia and the US.
Neste Oil has joined the European Union-funded Initiative Towards Sustainable Kerosene for Aviation (ITAKA) project, which supports the commercialization and use of renewable aviation fuel in Europe. Neste Oil's role in the consortium will be to produce the renewable fuel used in the project. The 36-month ITAKA project has been granted €10 million of funding under the EU's Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Development.
