Guillaume Faury (; born 22 February 1968) is a French engineer and businessman. He is the chief executive officer (CEO) at the aerospace corporation

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and chairman of its civil aircraft division, Airbus SAS.

Education

Graduated from École Polytechnique (Paris) in 1990 and École Nationale Supérieure de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace (Toulouse). Certified light-aircraft pilot and helicopter flight-test engineer with over 1,300 flying hours.

Career

Working at

Eurocopter Airbus Helicopters SAS (formerly Eurocopter S.A., trade name, trading as Eurocopter Group) is the helicopter manufacturer, helicopter manufacturing division of Airbus. It is the largest in the industry in terms of revenues and turbine helicopte ...

(now

Airbus Helicopters Airbus Helicopters SAS (formerly Eurocopter S.A., trading as Eurocopter Group) is the helicopter manufacturing division of Airbus. It is the largest in the industry in terms of revenues and turbine helicopter deliveries, holding 48% of the wo ...

) for ten years, Faury was the chief engineer of the EC225/H225, being responsible for the heavy helicopter flight tests. He eventually became the executive vice-president for

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(R&D). In 2010, Faury became executive vice-president for research and development at car maker

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. In March 2013 Faury replaced Lutz Bertling as the CEO of Airbus Helicopters. As the new CEO, he faced the H225 crash in Norway, killing all thirteen people on board and grounding all H225 helicopters used in

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exploitation for a 15-month period. The sale of the helicopter model to the

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was cancelled. Faury restructured the X4 program leading to the H160 medium helicopter development to be introduced in 2019, and launched the X6 development for a

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successor to the Super Puma. He began significant R&D programs like the high-speed X3 Racer and the CityAirbus program. Faury replaced Fabrice Brégier as Airbus Commercial Aircraft COO from February 2018. On 8 October 2018, the Airbus Board of Directors selected him to succeed

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as Airbus CEO, starting from 10 April 2019. Faury will have to shape Airbus' response to the

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, face

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production and operational challenges, complete A400M negotiations and address slower-selling models like the

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. During the Annual General Meeting (AGM) 2022, Faury was reappointed as CEO for the next three years. Faury led the company through the recovery after the

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and the continued development of an environmentally friendly aircraft fueled by hydrogen. On 1 December 2022, Faury was one of the guests invited to a

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hosted by

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in honor of

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at the

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Personal life

He is married to Maria Faury, and they have three children.

Other activities

* European Round Table for Industry (ERT), MemberMembers

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Faury, Guillaume 1968 births Living people French chief operating officers French chief executives Airbus people French aerospace engineers École Polytechnique alumni Supaéro alumni People from Cherbourg-Octeville