The Minister for Infrastructure and Transport Anthony Albanese has appointed four new members to the Board of Airservices Australia. The new appointments are in addition to Air Chief Marshall Angus Houston, who started his tenure as Airservices chair this week.
The new members are Samantha Betzien, Annette Kimmitt, Paul Lucas and Anthony Mathews. According to Mr Albanese, the new members “bring a strong set of skills in aviation, legal, financial and infrastructure planning to the Board."
In announcing the appointments, Mr Albanese was glowing in his praise of former chairman David Forsyth.
“I would also like to take this opportunity to congratulate the outgoing Chair, David Forsyth, for his dedicated work and leadership of the Airservices Board. Mr Forsyth was first appointed as member of the Board in 2005. I extended his appointment and asked him to take up the role of Chair in 2008.
“Under Mr Forsyth’s leadership, the Board led a major program of investment in critical safety infrastructure, air traffic services and training of skilled personnel. The Board also took steps to help Airservices to better harmonise with military air traffic management systems.”
The outgoing board members are Liza Carver, AVM Roxley McLennan and Hank Meertens.
Biographies of the new and existing board members are available on the Airservices website.