Airbus is announcing changes to the leadership team led by Chief Executive Officer Guillaume Faury, as well as the appointment of a designated Commercial Aircraft business management team which will operate under the helm of Christian Scherer.

Meanwhile, the company also announces appointments to the new Commercial Aircraft management team.

From 1 January 2024 onwards, the new its leadership team led by Airbus CEO will consist of:

Thierry Baril, Chief Human Resources Officer*

Bruno Even, CEO Airbus Helicopters*

Alberto Gutierrez, EVP Special Industrial Projects*

John Harrison, General Counsel*

Catherine Jestin, EVP Digital and Information Management*

Julie Kitcher, Chief Sustainability Officer and Communications*

Sabine Klauke, Chief Technology Officer*

Christian Scherer, CEO Commercial Aircraft*

Mike Schoellhorn, CEO Airbus Defence and Space*

Thomas Toepfer, Chief Financial Officer* 

Jeff Knittel, Chairman and CEO Airbus Americas

Matthieu Louvot, EVP Strategy

Wouter van Wersch, EVP International

George Xu, CEO Airbus China.

From 1 January 2024 onwards, the new Commercial Aircraft management team led by CEO Commercial Aircraft will consist of:

Stella Belvisi, General Counsel

Maggie Bergsma, Head of Communications

Mathieu Callewaert, EVP Human Resources

Thomas Hundt, EVP Finance

Sabine Klauke, EVP Engineering*

Florent Massou dit Labaquère, EVP Operations*

Philippe Mhun, EVP Programmes and Services*

Benoît de Saint-Exupéry, EVP Sales

Further appointments will be made at a later date.
 
 The roles marked with a (*) have been proposed by the CEO and approved by the Board of Directors to form the Airbus Executive Committee which consists of 13 members. The Executive Committee supports the CEO in his duty of managing Airbus. It is chaired by the CEO and comprises the heads of major functions and businesses.

Going forward, Airbus will work to establish this new organisational set-up in project mode from 1 January 2024 onwards. This will be conducted in collaboration with our social partners, who have been informed about the process during a meeting of the European Works Council (SE-WC) on 12 October 2023.