Guillaume Faury

Member of the Board of Directors at AXA

📍 Greater Toulouse Metropolitan Area, France

Guillaume Faury leads Airbus as CEO, drawing on his extensive background as an aerospace engineer from École Polytechnique and a flight-test engineer. His leadership is guided by a commitment to safety, responsible innovation, and the belief that aviations purpose is to connect people and societies.

His career is built on a lifelong passion for aviation that extends beyond the boardroom. He is a qualified light-aircraft pilot and a helicopter flight-test engineer with over 1, 300 flying hours, demonstrating a profound, hands-on connection to the aircraft his company builds.

Unique fact: He began his career as a military flight-test engineer for the French government, personally testing helicopters like the Eurocopter Tiger.

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Current Role

Member of the Board of Directors

Location

Greater Toulouse Metropolitan Area, France

Personality Overview

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Priorities

Topics Guillaume cares about

Aviation Safety

Considers safety the most important value in aviation, frequently emphasizing it in public statements and prioritizing it over logistical challenges.

Decarbonisation in Aviation

Views decarbonisation not as a constraint but as a competitive opportunity, believing that more fuel-efficient aircraft align both economic and ecological goals.

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Career

Work history

4-2025

Member of the Board of Directors

AXA

6-2023 - 6-2025

President & Chairman of the Board

Aerospace, Security and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD)

7-2021 - 7-2025

President

GIFAS - Groupement des Industries Françaises Aéronautiques et Spatiales

4-2019

CEO

Airbus

4-2019

Chief Executive Officer

Airbus

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Education

1998 - 2000

DESS Administration des entreprises

Aix-Marseille Graduate School of Management - IAE

1990 - 1992

Diplôme d'ingénieur

ISAE-SUPAERO

1987 - 1990

Diplôme d'ingénieur

École Polytechnique

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