Pieter Elbers
Chief Executive Officer KLM
Pieter Elbers is an airline industry veteran with 25 years’ experience at KLM. A graduate of the Open University of Amsterdam (Master in Business Administration) and the Academy of Venlo (Bachelor in Logistics Management), he has also completed executive programmes at IMD (Lausanne), Columbia University (New York) and Tsinghua (Beijing). Pieter Elbers started his career with KLM in 1992 as aircraft loading manager, followed by a number of managerial positions in the Netherlands as well as six years abroad (Italy, Greece and Japan). In 2005, he occupied the position of Senior Vice President Network and Alliances until 2011 when he joined the KLM Managing Board as Chief Operating Officer. In 2014, Pieter Elbers was appointed Chairman of the KLM Managing Board. Pieter Elbers is a member of the international advisory board of international institute of air and space law (IIASL), the advisory board of the national aerospace laboratory of the Netherlands (NLR) and the College Dutch Aerospace/”Lucht-enRuimtevaart Nederland” (LRN).
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