Session 4: Accident Investigations, Annex 13 & Criminalization
of International Aviation: The Law of Unintended Consequences

George Leloudas

Dr. George Leloudas is an associate solicitor in the London office of Gates and Partners. He advises on aerospace liability, aviation disaster management and regulatory issues.  He has hands-on experience with the ongoing disaster management of the Helios Airways Boeing 737 crash outside of Athens, Greece in August 2005.  George is an assistant to the legal counsel of the International Union of Aviation Insurers (IUAI). He holds a Doctorate Degree from Trinity Hall, Cambridge University, LLM degree in Air & Space Law from the Institute of Air and Space Law, McGill University, LLM Degree from Bristol University, UK and Bachelor of Civil Laws from the University of Athens, Greece. He is a member of the Law Society of England and Wales and the Bar Association of Athens, Greece.

George's doctoral thesis, "Risk and Liability in Air Law" was published in September 2009 by Informa Law. It is the first book to analyse the relevant international conventions governing the liability of airlines to passengers and third parties on the ground from a risk perspective.

Gary Winston

Mr. Gary Winston has been employed as an Assistant State Attorney in Miami, Florida since 1983.  He graduated from the University of Miami School of Law in 1982 and became a prosecutor shortly thereafter.  At the present time, he is both a Senior Trial Attorney and the Chief of the Environmental Crimes Unit of the Office of the State Attorney, Eleventh Judicial Circuit, Miami-Dade County, Florida.

He is a well-respected lecturer and instructor in the fields of Environmental Crime and trial presentation of environmental cases.  He has lectured at advanced courses in his expertise to the National College of District Attorneys, the Florida Prosecuting Attorneys Association, The National District Attorneys Association, and at the EPA’s Advanced Environmental Crimes Training Program.  In addition, Mr. Winston has been instrumental in conducting seminars and lectures within Florida and particularly in the Miami area in the enforcement of hazardous waste and pollution abatement laws.

He is a guest lecturer at the International Institute of Air and Space Law of Leiden University and regularly teaches on Air and Space law subjects at number of postgraduate courses. He has been the rapporteur to the ICAO Legal Committee for the creation of the 1988 Montreal Protocol on Acts of Violence against International Aviation. 

Roderick van Dam is a Member of the International Advisory Board of the International Institute of Air and Space Law of Leiden University, a Member of the Board of Editors of the Annals of Air and Space Law of McGill University and a Member of the Brussels Branch of the Royal Aeronautical Society.

William Voss is the President and CEO of the Flight Safety Foundation – which is an independent international, non-political organization created in 1947 to improve aviation safety worldwide.   

Previously, Mr. Voss was the Director of the Air Navigation Bureau in the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).  In this position, he was responsible for international regulatory standards for aircraft, pilots, airlines, air traffic control, and airports.   He led efforts to establish plans for the improvement of efficiency and safety of the global air transport system, and he played a major role in the drive towards increased transparency and accountability in international aviation.

Prior to this Mr. Voss had a long career with the US Federal Aviation Administration where he began his service as an air traffic controller and eventually assumed executive positions directing the modernization of the US air traffic control infrastructure.