Peter Malanik

Executive Board, Austrian

Peter Malanik was born on August 29, 1961 in Mödling, Lower Austria. He is married. After finishing his doctorate in law, Peter Malanik began his career at Austrian in 1985 in the International Relations Department, and from 1989 onwards ran the Department of Multilateral Matters.

In 1993 he was appointed as Director of Commercial and Technical Staff. Peter Malanik worked in Geneva as Deputy IATA Director for European Aviation Policy from 1996 onwards, and from 1997 onwards was in Brussels as the General Manager Technical & Operations of the AEA (Association of European Airlines). In this function, he played a key role in designing and implementing the flight operations, technical and infrastructure-related framework conditions for European aviation business, and had the opportunity to gain wide-ranging knowledge of these issues, an outstanding basis for his new responsibilities. In 2000 Peter Malanik returned to Vienna, taking over as Vice President & Secretary General. In 2002 he was appointed as Executive Vice President and in 2003 he also took over responsibility for the management of Group Alliance Policy. In 2004 he was further entrusted with the Human Resources & Organisation Division. In December 2006 Peter Malanik was appointed as Chairman of the Alliance Management Board (AMB) of the Star Alliance. He is also a Lecturer in Aviation Business Science at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration and a lecturer at the European Business School (EBS) near Frankfurt.

As of 1 January 2008 Peter Malanik was appointed as Chief Operations Officer (COO).