Roy Griffins

Roy Griffins has been Chairman of London City Airport since 1 January 2007, after two years as Director General of the Airports Council International in Brussels and a spell as Director of Public Affairs for Eurotunnel. Since April 2006, he has also been the British Chairman of the Channel Tunnel Intergovernmental Commission.

Previously Roy had a thirty-year career in the British civil and diplomatic service, mostly in international, transport and environment posts. He served as the UK’s Director of Railways from 1996 to 1999 and Director-General of Civil Aviation from 1999 to 2004. During this time he was responsible for the public-private partnership of the UK’s national air traffic services (NATS) and for the Air Transport White Paper of December 2003, the most important expression of British aviation policy for twenty years, recently reconfirmed as the UK’s long term airports and air transport strategy.

Previously Roy Griffins served in the UK Permanent Representation to the EU in Brussels and as a Counsellor in the British Embassy in Washington DC, where his portfolios included air services, aerospace trade, transport, environment and shipping policy.

Mr Griffins is a graduate of Bristol University and studied at the Sorbonne and the Ecole Nationale d'Administration. He was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 2003. Mr Griffins is also a Director of the London Ambulance Service NHS Trust and a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society.