Tata Sons announced the appointment of Ilker Ayci as the CEO & MD of Air India. He will shoulder his responsibilities on or before 1st April 2022.
N Chandrasekaran, Chairman of Tata Sons, was a special invitee to the board meeting which met to consider the candidature of Ilker Ayci. The board after due deliberations approved the appointment subject to requisite regulatory approvals.
He is 1994 alumnus of Bilkent University’s Department of Political Science and Public Administration. After a research stay on political science at the Leeds University in the UK in 1995, he completed an International Relations Master’s program at the Marmara University in Istanbul in 1997. Until very recently, Ilker Ayci, was the Chairman of Turkish Airlines and he was on the board of the company prior to that.