A Post Graduate in Public Administration with PG Diploma in Public Sector Management from Leeds University (UK), Mr. P.S. Nair, has over 40 years of diverse experience in the airport sector – both in the public and private domains. He has held several senior positions such as Airport Director of Trivandrum, Mumbai and Delhi International Airports, Executive Director – Cargo, Commercial and Key Infrastructure Development departments, overseeing the respective functions on a pan-India basis with the Airports Authority of India, which owns and operates over 125 Airports in India. He held the No. 2 position of fulltime Board Member – an appointment by the ‘Appointments Committee of the Cabinet’ where he was responsible for Personnel, Administration, Legal, Commercial and Land Management functions. He opted for an early exit from AAI in May, 2005. He had been an ex-Officio Director on the Boards of Directors of Hotel Leela Venture, Radisson Hotel and is currently on the Boards of a host of subsidiaries and JV Companies of GMR Group. Mr. Nair has also served in several High-Level Task Forces, Committees, Working Groups and Advisory Committees formed by the Government of India in the civil aviation space. He played a pivotal role in the formation of Delhi Aviation Fuel Facility Private Limited and also served as its founding Chairman from 2009 to 2012 and on rotation for second term from 2016 to 2018 and in the current third term from August, 2022 onwards. In GMR Group, he has held the position of Chief Executive Officer of GMR Hyderabad International Airport, India’s first PPP greenfield airport without Government’s direct control. He played an instrumental role in successful commissioning of the Hyderabad International Airport ahead of schedule. In 2009, he assumed charge of CEO, Delhi International Airport (P) Ltd. where he was also responsible for the operational readiness, integration, and successful commissioning of the state-of- the-art Terminal 3. He was elevated to the Board level position of Executive Director, GMR Airports Ltd – the holding company that oversees the functioning of all the Airport Companies in the GMR’s Airport portfolio. He held this position until recently when he moved on to a more passive role as Senior Advisor and Board Member of Airport Companies, JVs and subsidiaries of group companies in the Airport Sector.
Mr. Nair had been a nominated member on the World Governing Board of ‘Airport Council International (ACI) World’, Montreal – the apex body of Global Airports. He had also been the Second Vice President elected from amongst the 18 Directors of the Hong Kong headquartered ACI-Asia Pacific Regional Board for 8 years. Mr. Nair is also a Govt. Nominated Director on the Board of Aerospace and Aviation Sector Skill Council. He is a recipient of several awards including Performance Excellence Award conferred by the Indian Institute of Industrial Engineering and recently presented JRD Tata Award by the Aeronautical Society of India and the Life-time Achievement Award by the ASSOCHAM.