Alan Peaford, speaking at Smart Airports World MENA 2011

Alan Peaford,
Editor
Arabian Aerospace, United Kingdom

Alan Peaford is the editor-in-chief of the Arabian Aerospace magazine and online news service, the region’s B2B specialist magazine.

He is a five-times winner of Aerospace Journalist of the Year awards for his work with Flight International, Airline Business, and India’s SP Aviation.
Having started his career as an actor, he entered the world of journalism through local newspapers and radio before working for national daily newspapers. In 1978 he was named the Foreign Correspondent of the Year for a series of Middle East articles published in the Sunday Times. He edited newspapers in the UK and Middle East including the Arab Times in Kuwait and the Gulf Daily News in Bahrain before taking a communications management role with oil company BP. In 1988 he was appointed managing director at the Charles Barker public relations and advertising agency and two years later headed a buyout of the company’s publishing division creating Trident Communications - which became the UK’s largest corporate publishing and communications agency with offices throughout the UK, Munich, New York, Dubai and Singapore.

In 1992 he was awarded a European Diploma of Honour for services to workplace communications and in 1995 was elected President of FEIEA, the European industrial editors association - a post he held for eight years.

In 2002 he became a ‘special advisor’ to the British Government working alongside a communications team at 10 Downing Street.

He is now President of the Institute of Internal Communications - the UK and Ireland’s professional association for business and industry communications.

He has written speeches for the heads of state or members of the royal families of the UK and Dubai and for industry leaders in the Middle East, the US and the UK.
In 2009, in conjunction with the Times Group of London, he combined his love of the Middle East with his passion for aviation and launched Arabian Aerospace, a B2B magazine for the rapidly expanding industry in the MENA region and is an active Editor-in-chief.

In his spare time he is Life President of Cornelia de Lange Syndrome Foundation (CdLS) a charity assisting the families and professionals supporting people with this rare mental and physical disorder. From 2003-2007 he was president of the World Federation of CdLS support groups and is an active member of Rotary International.
He is an enthusiastic private pilot, is married with three children and splits his time between homes in the UK and France.

Appearing:

Day 1: Monday 26th September 2011

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