Biography

Mr. Conesa serves as our chief executive officer since 2005 and has been a member of our board of directors since 2004. He is also a member of our executive committee and our safety committee. In 2023, Mr. Conesa was appointed as the chairman of the SkyTeam alliance. Additionally, he has served on the board of directors of Sempra Energy (NYSE: SRE) since 2017 and was chairman and a member of the board of directors of Cintra between 2003 and 2005. Mr. Conesa was also the chairman of the board of IATA during IATA’s 2015 term and the chairman of the executive committee of ALTA between 2013 and 2015. He also served as a member of the IEnova board from 2013 to 2017, as well as a member of the Mexican Stock Exchange board from 2006 to 2007. He previously served as a member of the following boards of directors: SkyTeam, Aeromexpress, and Aeroméxico Servicios. Mr. Conesa has held several significant government positions, including as general economic planning director and head of the public debt management, from 2003 to 2004, and international economic affairs general director of the Ministry of Finance, from 1998 to 2000, and coordinator of advisors, from 1997 to 1998, of the Mexican Ministry of Finance (Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público). Mr. Conesa holds a B.A. degree in economics from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, or ITAM, and a Ph.D. degree in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT. Mr. Conesa has received Fulbright, Ford and MacArthur scholarships. In 1997, Mr. Conesa was awarded the National Economics Prize, granted by Banamex.