India's Shefali Juneja elected as first woman chairperson of ICAO Aviation Security Committee

Juneja, a 1992 batch officer of the Indian Revenue Service (Income Tax cadre), is at present India's representative in the ICAO, Montreal, Canada. She had replaced senior IAS officer Alok Shekhar for the post in June 2019.

New Delhi: Senior bureaucrat Shefali Juneja was on Friday elected as the Chairperson of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) Aviation Security Committee, a United Nations body. This will see India taking India charge of the position after a gap of 12 years.

Juneja, a 1992 batch officer of the Indian Revenue Service (Income Tax cadre), is at present India's representative in the ICAO, Montreal, Canada. She had replaced senior IAS officer Alok Shekhar for the post in June 2019.

The senior IRS officer has previously served as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Civil Aviation dealing with International Agreements from 2012 till 2019. She was the chief bilateral air service negotiator for India and worked for transforming the bilateral air service negotiations by implementing open skies as for the National Civil Aviation Policy 2016. She has also previously served as the Board of Directors in Alliance Air and Air India Express.

The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) is a specialised United Nations agency, which is funded by 193 countries to support their diplomacy and cooperation with regard to air transport. Its headquarters is located in Quebec, Canada.

ICAO facilitates panning and development of international air transport for the safe growth and defines protocols for air accident investigation, which are followed by transport safety authorities in countries that are signatory to the Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation.

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