Stefán Thordersen Job title:   Director, Security

Stefán was born in 1960. He is a qualified Aviation Maintenance Technician, and as a police officer he qualified as an Aviation Security Professional Manager at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, and is certified by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) and European Civil Aviation Conference (ECAC) as an administrator of Universal Security Audit Programmes in aviation security, and certified in Safety Management Systems, Airport Safety Programmes and Facilitation.

He has extensive experience of aviation-related work, spanning such matters as security, airport facilitation, aviation security and international aviation security matters. Stefán was a member of Keflavík Airport Police 1982-98, and was employed by Icelandair 1998-2001, before transferring to the Civil Aviation Administration at Keflavík Airport. Since 2002 he has been a quality controller for the ICAO and ECAC with respect to aviation security of member states.