Mr. David McMillan became the U.K.’s Director General of Civil Aviation at the Department for Transport in April 2004. He was formerly Director of Strategy and Delivery, responsible for the Department’s delivery agenda, business planning and relations with the EU.

Mr. McMillan has had a long career in the Department and its predecessors, having worked in aviation, integrated transport and personnel. Key posts have involved a stint as Transport Secretary in the British Embassy in Washington, D.C., acting as the Secretary of State’s Press Spokesman, setting up the NATS public private partnership, and securing the replacement of Railtrack by Network Rail as the U.K.’s rail infrastructure provider. Mr. McMillan started his career in the Diplomatic Service, serving in Morocco and Zimbabwe.

Mr. McMillan is the First Vice President of ECAC (the European Civil Aviation Conference) and the spokesman for Europe on aviation and the environment at ICAO. In addition, he is to take over as Director General of EUROCONTROL in January next year.

He has a degree in French and Spanish from Edinburgh University.