Tanja Schmidt, Director of Training, IATA

2nd in a Series of Conversations
with Commercial Aviation Safety and Training Leaders

By Rick Adams, FRAeS

Tanja Schmidt began her role with the International Air Transport Association (https://iata.org) in September 2024, inheriting a department which manages hundreds of training courses across dozens of airline-related categories: airline management, operations, air navigation, cargo, dangerous goods, environment, ticketing, finance, law and regulation, safety, security, tourism, even courses for civil aviation authorities. To deliver the courses around the globe, the Geneva, Switzerland- and Montréal, Canada-headquartered IATA leans on hundreds of industry partners with specific subject expertise.