José Antonio Calvo Fresno

José Antonio Calvo Fresno holds an aeronautical engineering degree from the Polytechnics University of Madrid. José has been working at the Spanish civil aviation authority for fourteen years where he held different managerial positions. He was especially active in the fields of international affairs, harmonisation of aviation initiatives at European level and coordination with the military sector. Before that, he had worked at an airline as assistant to the Director. He had also developed some work in the aeronautical research sector. Immediately after his graduation, José joined Airbus where he held different positions in customer support, the aerodynamics and the aerospace flight test departments in France and the United Kingdom. He has been chairman of the Spanish civil-military joint rulemaking standing committee since 1998; and he has been appointed Vice Chairman of Eurocontrol's Safety Regulation Commission in 2008 after having held this position already between 2000 and 2003. He took part also in the first High Level Group for the constitution of the Single European Sky chairing one of its Sub-Groups. José joined the SESAR Joint Undertaking as Chief Regulatory Affairs on 1 June 2009.