Speakers
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Graham Lake
Director General
Civil Air Navigation Services Orangisation (CANSO)
Following more than 20 years of senior management and executive level experience in international aviation businesses, in December 2009 Graham Lake was appointed Director General of CANSO, the Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation.
Graham began his career as an Air Traffic Controller with UK NATS in 1976 before moving to SITA as Assistant Vice-President International Relations in 1988, based in London and later Geneva, focusing on CNS ATM implementation in Europe and for Oceanic use in the Atlantic and Pacific Regions. This involved extensive coordination with a wide range of aviation industry stakeholders, including ICAO, IATA, EUROCONTROL and many others.
In 1997 he became a Vice President at ARINC in Annapolis Maryland, responsible for the aviation services division, where customers included many of the world’s airlines and the US FAA. Graham then returned to the UK as Managing Director of ARINC EMEA region, during which he led teams providing passenger systems at more than 20 major international airports, as well as aircraft datalink and IT services for airline and air traffic control use. Graham was also the founding President of AeroMobile, a joint venture company of ARINC and Telenor Norway, launched to develop and operate mobile communications services on aircraft for passenger and crew use. In 2006 Graham was appointed non-executive Chairman of MICRONAV Limited, an ATC simulation systems company.
