Rigas Doganis


Prof. Doganis has acted for many years as aviation consultant and strategy adviser to numerous airlines, airports, banks and governments around the world.

He is a non-executive director on the Board of Directors of Hyderabad International Airport Ltd. in southern India and of easyJet Plc. Until the end of March 2006 he was also a non-executive director of South African Airways. He is Chairman of the prestigious European Aviation Club in Brussels.

Prof. Doganis served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Olympic Airways in Athens from February 1995 to April 1996 and successfully implemented a major restructuring programme which produced Olympic’s first profit in 18 years.

He was Head of the Department of Air Transport in the College of Aeronautics at Cranfield University from 1991 till October 1997. He established this Department as the pre-eminent academic centre in Europe for post-graduate teaching and research in air transport. He is now Visiting Professor at the College.

Prof. Doganis is a well-known author in the field of airline economics. An updated second edition of his latest book, The Airline Business came out early in 2006. In 2002, a new enlarged edition of his classic book Flying Off Course: The Economics of International Airlines was published. This has become the basic text in its field. Prof. Doganis is also the author of The Airport Business. Japanese and Spanish editions of all three books have been or are being published. He has written numerous articles and papers on airline and airport economics and management.

Prof. Doganis was educated at the London School of Economics and the Sorbonne, Paris.