Geoffrey H. Lipman

Special Advisor to the Secretary General, World Tourism Organization, UNWTO

Geoffrey Lipman is Assistant Secretary General and Spokesperson of UNWTO, the World Tourism Organization.  He is Chair of the Advisory Board of the DeHaan Institute at Nottingham University UK: Adjunct Professor at Victoria University and Griffith University Australia and Senior Tourism Research Fellow at George Washington University US. He is a Director of STDI Research Group.

He was the first President of WTTC (World Travel & Tourism Council) 1990 to 99: Chair of Green Globe 2000-07 and Executive Director IATA (International Air Transport Association) where he worked from 1966-85 as well as a founding partner in Global Aviation Associates, specialising in aviation, government relations and competition.

Lipman has written and lectured around the world on tourism strategy, sustainability, climate change and airline liberalization, co-authored books on opening up European Aviation and established a Think Tank on Free Trade in the Air. He was a member of two European Union High Level Commissions - on Airline Liberalization and on Tourism Employment as well as the UK Roundtable on Sustainable Development, the President of Zambia’s Business Advisory Council and the Ethiopia Think Tank. He is a Fellow of the Tourism Society.