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January 27, 2003
The Ritz-Carlton Hotel
The Japan International Transport Institute under the
Auspices of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport
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Japan International Tranport Institute
SARAH AYERS
1819 L STREET, N.W. SUITE 1000
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20036
PHONE:+1- 202-833-9763
FAX: +1-202-833-9769
jiti@japantransport.com
www.japantransport.com
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Activities of our institute are made possible through the generous assistance of the Nippon Foundation. |
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Michael E. Levine
Professor (Adjunct) of Law, Yale Law School
Former Executive Vice President, Northwest Airlines and Continental Airlines
Michael E. Levine's unusual combination of experience has involved him in the world of air transportation and its regulation as a senior airline executive, an academic and a government official. Most recently, he has retired from a period as a senior Northwest Airlines executive to return to academic life at Harvard and now Yale.
As an airline executive, Levine served at Continental and Northwest as an Executive Vice President and was President and CEO of New York Air, guiding that post-deregulation airline to its first profit. In his most recent industry position at Northwest Airlines, Levine was responsible for all marketing, pricing, sales and route and fleet planning activities, for its international activities alliances and establishments, and for information technology, reservations and electronic distribution. He was principally responsible for the overhaul of Northwest's domestic and international route systems to concentrate on its hubs at Detroit, Minneapolis, Memphis and Japan, for its fleet strategy, and for developing and executing Northwest's pathbreaking alliance strategy, including its historic joint venture with KLM and its alliances with Air China and Continental.
Levine currently is Professor (Adjunct) Law at Yale, having served as Adjunct Professor at Harvard from 1999-2002. He has preciously served as Dean of Yale University's School of Management and held professorial chairs at Caltech, Yale and USC. Levine has been an academic visitor at the London School of Economics and Duke University. He has done pioneering work on airline deregulation, on the application of market mechanisms to airport congestion, on committees and agendas and on the origins of regulation and the behavior of regulatory agencies.
As a government official, Levine was instrumental in bringing about airline deregulation. In 1978 and 1979, he served as General Director, International and Domestic Aviation, (the senior staff position at the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board) and devised many of the mechanisms and practices used to deregulate the industry.
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