Philippe Merlo, Director of European Green Sky Directorate, EUROCONTROL

Philippe Merlo, Director of European Green Sky Directorate, EUROCONTROL

Philippe Merlo has been the Director of the European Green Sky Directorate (EGSD) at EUROCONTRIOL since 1 October 2022. EGDS brings under one roof technology, innovation, international co-operation, sustainability and aviation intelligence. Before that, Merlo was Director DECMA (the European-Civil Military ATM Directorate); he joined EUROCONTROL in February 2014 as Director ATM.

Merlo has spent his entire career in ATM, beginning as a flight test engineer in 1986 in the French DGAC (Directorate General for Civil Aviation) after graduating from the Ecole Nationale de l’Aviation Civile in Toulouse. He then steadily rose within the organisation to occupy a number of managerial functions of increasing responsibility, including four years as Head of the En-Route ATC Centre in Bordeaux and four years as Director of all Technical Systems and Innovation. In 2010 he became Deputy CEO of DSNA, the French Air Navigation Service Provider, in which capacity he was increasingly involved in ATM at a European level, before joining EUROCONTROL four years later.