Fiona McFadden

Fiona McFadden
Advisor to the Executive Director

Fiona Mc Fadden has been working as advisor to the Executive Director of the SESAR Joint Undertaking for two years. She has been dealing with policy, as well as relations with the EU institutions, third countries and key ATM stakeholders. Following a recent restructuring , she now heads up the Executive Director’s private office. Fiona’s job primarily focuses on maintaining good relations with key external partners and overseeing external policy. She has over 17 years experience in transport in Brussels, working for the European office of the International Federation of Airline Pilots Association, the Directorate General for Transport of the European Commission on global navigation satellite systems policy and also the first GNSS body, the European GNSS Tripartite Group (European Commission, Eurocontrol and the European Space Agency). She also worked as EU programme manager for the European Cities (POLIS) on intelligent transport systems projects. Fiona is qualified in Applied Languages and Business (marketing) having studied at Dublin City University, the University of the Saarland in Germany and at the International Management School (CEGI) of the University of Louvain-La-Neuve in Belgium.