Andreas Wittmer is Head of International Networks, Senior Lecturer in Management with a special focus on Aviation, and Head of the Center for Aviation Competence at the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland). Next to his focus on teaching on Bachelor, Master, and Executive Education Level, his research focuses on network industries, such as Aviation. He has received several teaching and best paper awards and serves on the boards of regional airport and aviation networks (Industry Cluster and Academic Networks) and as a freelance Aircraft Accident Investigator. Thomas Bieger is the former president of the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland). He is currently a Full Professor of Business Administration with a specialization in Tourism, and Director of the Institute for Systemic Management and Public Governance at the University of St. Gallen. He has held several guest professorships at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) and the Vienna University of Business and Economics (Austria) and taught at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver (Canada), at the Università della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano (Italy), and as a William Fraser Fellow at the University of Otago, Dunedin (New Zealand).Roland Müller is a lawyer and a public notary, Professor for Private Law, Commercial Law and Aviation Law at the University of St.Gallen (Switzerland), and Professor for Labour and Industrial Law at the University of Bern (Switzerland). Prof. Müller studied law at the universities of Geneva and Zürich. Parallel he completed his flight education with a Commercial Pilot and a Flight Instructor Licence. He co-founded the Center for Aviation Competence (CFAC) together with Prof. Andreas Wittmer. For 6 years, he was the central president of the Aero Club of Switzerland and for 9 years a member of the Swiss Federal Aviation Commission. He performs the function as a Chairman or as a Member of the Board of Directors of several Swiss companies and as Chairman of theFoundation for Aviation Competence (FFAC).
