Citizenship British Name Sadiq Gillani Website www.sadiqgillani.com | Employer Lufthansa Occupation Airline Executive | |
Alma mater University of Cambridge, Harvard Business School | ||
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Sadiq Gillani is a Senior Vice-President at Lufthansa Group, and a Lecturer in Management at Stanford Graduate School of Business
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Biography
Since 2011, Sadiq has been a Senior Vice-President of Lufthansa the largest airline in Europe. He started as Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer, responsible for corporate strategy, portfolio, business development and innovation. He is currently Senior Vice-President, Network & Fleet at Eurowings, the low cost subsidiary of Lufthansa
He was previously a Partner with Seabury Group, an aviation consultancy and was based in New York and Sydney. He served as the Chief Commercial Officer of WebJet Linhas Aéreas, a startup Brazilian low cost carrier, based in Rio de Janeiro. He also supported with the launch of two US startup carriers, namely Eos and Skybus, which ceased operations in 2008. He started his career at Bain & Company, the strategy consultancy, in London and Johannesburg.
He is on the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council for Travel, on the board of directors of SunExpress airline, Chairman of Lufthansa Consulting and Lufthansa Innovation Hub GmbH .
Education
He completed his MBA at Harvard Business School and holds a BA and MPhil in Management Studies from Cambridge University. He is also a Lecturer in Management at Stanford Graduate School of Business, teaching the elective MBA class 'the Travel & Airline Industry'
Awards
In 2013, he accepted the Airline Business Airline Strategy Award at London's Lincoln Inn Fields
In 2014, he was recognised by the Financial Times as one of the top 100 OUTstanding Business Leaders, in position 57.
In 2015, he was selected by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader
In 2015, he was recognised by the Financial Times as one of the top 100 OUTstanding Business Leaders, in position 53.
In 2015, he was recognised by the Financial Times as one of the top 100 Ethnic Minority Business Leaders in 2015, in position 79.
In 2016, he was selected by Capital_(German_magazine) as one of Germany's Top 40 under 40 Young Elite Managers
Media coverage
In April 2010, he was quoted in The Guardian newspaper, saying that the merger of United and Continental would lead to reduced capacity and address over-supply in the US airline industry.
In May 2012, Swiss business magazine Bilanz described him as a Fremdkörper ("foreign body") to Lufthansa employers
In December 2012, German business magazine Wirtschaftswoche commented that he was part of a small group of trusted advisors to the CEO of Lufthansa.
In May 2013, German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung wrote that: "For many leadership positions in the Group under the Board, CEO Franz has in the past two years brought in many specialists from outside, on whose loyalty he can count on. This includes the new Chief Strategist Sadiq Gillani, a Briton, in the rather cumbersome and, above all, highly German business, swirling around with ideas that the traditionalists must consider as an affront. Gillani was a management consultant prior."
In April 2014, German Newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung wrote: "People that know Spohr well believe that there will be no major personnel changes, with one exception: hardly anyone expects that Strategy Chief Sadiq Gillani will stay. Franz had appointed Gillani in order to shake things up – and Gillani had done this intensively, more than most people liked, Spohr included."
In July 2014, German Newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung wrote: "The question of whom Spohr will gather around him in top positions in future is closely monitored internally – and the new CEO knows this. That's why there is one thing he does not do: the thing that everyone expects from him. His Chief Strategy Officer Sadiq Gillani may continue to develop new concepts. HR Director Bettina Volkens took over responsibility for Passage HR and must now deliver even more, instead of being already dismissed. On the other hand, many of Spohr's buddies are still waiting for their next career step."
In September 2014, he spoke at the TED (Conference) Berlin, delivering the first ever TED Talk on the airline industry, which has been viewed by over 100,000 people. The Next Step for Airlines on YouTube
In May 2015, he delivered a podcast for the World Economic Forum on innovation in the travel industry to launch the 2015 Travel & Tourism Global Competitiveness Report.
In May 2015, USA Today reported,"Expect major European carriers to switch to the US model of charging to check a bag within two years and charging for seat assignments in the next three years, said Lufthansa Group Chief Strategy Officer Sadiq Gillani. We're a bit behind.
In Sep 2015, CCTV News interviewed him on the potential for the commercial Drone industry, at the World Economic Forum in Dalian, China.