Mr. Ozan Karakiş

Dedicated Airport Operations, Safety and Emergency Response Services leader with 30 years of progressive responsible experience. He was Airside Operations and Safety Director of Medina Airport in KSA. He is the operational planner and composer of airside operations at Istanbul Grand Airport (LTFM/IST) ranging from airside maintenance to ARFF, airside operations to safety management system, safety assurance to regulatory compliance, aerodrome certification to obstacle control, budgeting to authoring technical specification of all types of airside operations machinery and equipment, airside driver’s permit to airside vehicle registration, airside security access management to wildlife and habitat management, aircraft recovery to stakeholder management. He was Fire Fighting Chief and has worked for NATO in many countries worldwide and has the NATO Medals for achievement.