Johann Friedrich Colsman - Germany
Biography
Johann Friedrich Colsman has been director general of civil aviation in the German Federal Ministry of Digital and Transport (BMDV) since April 2018. He is one of the vice-presidents of ECAC. He is also president of the Provisional Council of EUROCONTROL (Brussels) and vice chair of the EASA Management Board (Cologne).
He has served for the ministry in various functions in Bonn and Brussels since 1993. During the German Presidency in 1999 he chaired the Aviation Working Group of the EU Council; later he was an advisor for transport policy to the president of the European Parliament and the vice-president of the European Commission and Commissioner for Transport.