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Keith Williams
CEO, British Airways
Keith Williams became British Airways’ chief executive in January 2011, following the merger with Iberia. He also sits on the Board of the two airlines’ parent company, International Airlines Group.
As chief financial officer of British Airways over the previous five years, he played a leading part in the airline’s achievement of a record operating margin in 2007, before steering it through the worst recession in it’s history and masterminding a solution to it’s long-standing pensions deficit.
After joining the airline in 1998, he became British Airways’ group treasurer and head of tax. He was heavily involved in restructuring the airline’s finances after the aviation slump that followed the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and in the plans that brought the company back to profitability.
Keith’s previous employers included Apple, Arthur Andersen and Boots plc.
He is a graduate of Liverpool University, where he obtained a first class honours degree in history and archaeology.
He is also a non-executive board member for Transport for London and has been a Board member of Iberia since 2009.
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