Board of Advisors

The AES Board of Advisors includes a number of well-known experts in Aviation English testing and training as well as leaders in airline and ATS organizations:

• Dr. Joan Carson,
  Associate Provost of Georgia State University, Ph.D. Linguistics, University of Chicago.
  

• Mr. Robert Chatham,
  Representative to the ICAO PRICE Study Group from the FAA; Chief of Specialized Aviation Curriculum at the US Defense Language Institute.

• Mr. Adrian Enright,
  Eurocontrol Project Leader for development of English language proficiency tests (ELPAC and PELA) for air traffic controllers.

• Mr. Daniel Galibert,
  Representative of France to the ICAO Air Navigation Commission; President of the Air Navigation Commission during the development of the ICAO Language Proficiency requirements and member of the French Civil Aviation Authority. IATA Director, South Africa.

• Dr. Jeremy Mell,
  Representative to the ICAO PRICESG from France; Director of the Language Section in the French National Civil Aviation Training Institute (ENAC), lead linguist on the EUROCONTROL development of the air traffic control English test, PELA.

• Dr. Marjo Mitsutomi,
  Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics at Redlands University and Member of the ICAO PRICE Study Group from the FAA.

• Captain Rick Valdes,
  United Airlines captain and IFALPA representative to the ICAO PRICE Study Group.

• Mr. Sergey Melnichenkov,
  Member of the ICAO PRICESG from Russia. Aviation English testing and training expert with 20+ years experience in the Russian Federation.

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