Dr. Piotr IKANOWICZ joined the PRC in 2023 as the focal point for airlines and serves as PRC chair.
Piotr has thirty plus years of executive track record in the aviation industry. While working as Chief Financial Officer, he has taken the lead on numerous major restructuring and turnaround projects.
With a multicultural background, proficiency in four languages, and experience of working in different jurisdictions, he has cultivated his expertise in both favourable as well as challenging times (i.e. Teheran shooting of UIA Boeing 737).
Served as CFO of three carriers LOT Polish, Malev Hungarian and Ukrainian Int’l (UIA) and also as a Director of Skyways Leasing (Cyprus).
He started his career as Assistant professor at the Institute of International Economic Relations, Warsaw School of Economics, earning a PhD in international economics (1990). In parallel, he serves as a visiting lecturer at LAA (Warsaw), ALC (Luxemburg), and IIASL (Leiden).