Speaker Biograghy: Ronald joined KLM Royal Dutch Airlines in 1996. He is responsible for the team dealing with the management of all the company's international security matters, including overflights risk assessments and corporate business risks. He is a member of the Air France-KLM Security Management Team and previous Chairman (2007-2012), and is now a senior member of the SkyTeam Aviation Security Group. He is Chairman of the Platform Unruly Passengers, a senior multi-discipline public-private platform consisting of police, lawmakers, labor unions and airlines. He is also Vice Chairman of the Anti-Drugs Taskforce in the Caribbean. He also holds other advisory positions for international GOs and NGOs. He started his career in law enforcement and intelligence and had several leading positions in related organisations in The Netherlands and on international missions, including during the Bosnian War in the 1990s in the former Yugoslavia.


Day 1 - 14 March
Session: Aviation Security, Border Control & Facilitation

11:30 - 12:00 - Aviation's threat horizon
Synopsis: We live in a world of uncertainty. It is changing rapidly, often without warning, and becomes more complex after every incident. Increasingly, lessons learned from the past are less useful as guides for the future. In aviation we face old threats in new guises, such as terrorism, but new threats are also looming on the horizon, including cyber threats. How do we deal with them?

Audience will learn:

• Insight into the current and future threats to aviation
• HRefugee issues related to aviation