Young Executive Award

Background and Objectives

The ACI Asia-Pacific & Middle East Young Executive Award is an annual research paper competition that encourages young talents in the Asia-Pacific and Middle East region to contribute innovative solutions for current aviation industry issues.

Young Executive Award 2024

The topic for the 2024 award programme is "The Collaboration of Airport Stakeholders on Promoting Cyber-Security Culture". The submissions were reviewed by a Panel of Judges chaired by Mr. Hyeong Jung YOON, President and CEO of Korea Airports Corporation. The results are as follows:

Winner: Mr. Manoj KUMAR, Bangalore International Airport Limited

Honourable Mention: Mr Do Hee KIM, Korea Airports Corporation

Young Executive Award is an

opportunity for all of us to express our learnings and convert our understandings into solutions to address challenges faced by the aviation sector in our region.

Rekibuddin AHMED

Manager- Environment & Sustainability, Delhi International Airport Limited

Winner of the ACI Asia-Pacific Young Executive Award 2022

About Young Executive Award: Introduced in 2009, the Young Executive award is an annual research paper competition which honors the young airport executives who demonstrate strong passion for the aviation industry and propose innovative ideas to address the most pressing issues that the industry is facing today.

Past Award Recipients:

The papers of the winner and Honourable Mentions are posted in the Library to encourage the promulgation of innovative ideas and best practices among the Asia-Pacific and Middle East airport community. For further details, read the press release.