After more than a year of searching, the nascent European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has chosen an executive director. Acting on a proposal from the European Commission, EASA's administrative board selected Patrick Goudou, who is director of the aeronautical maintenance service of the French defence ministry's General Delegation for Armaments. EASA is due to become fully operational as Europe's single regulatory body for aviation safety on 28 September, and is temporarily based at the Joint Aviation Authorities headquarters in Hoofddorp in the Netherlands until the EC designates a location for its own headquarters. Goudou is an engineering graduate of the French Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole superieur de l'aeronautique et de l'espace (National Aerospace College).
Source: Flight International
