Sadiq Gillani

Sadiq Gillani (he/him)

Sadiq is from London and recently returned after 15 years working in 6 continents and visiting over 120 countries. He made his passion his profession and is a thought leader on the Travel & Airline Industry and Career/Self Development. 

Sadiq is a Senior Advisor for travel at Attestor Capital, where he is Chairman of the Advisory Board for Condor, the second airline of Germany. He sits on the board of eTraveli, an online travel agency owned by CVC Partners, and the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council for Sustainable Tourism.

Sadiq is also an Executive Coach and is creating a self-development program based on the work of Carl Jung. He started an MBA course at Stanford on the Travel & Airline industry which he taught for 6 years and is the subject of a Stanford MBA case study on "Paths to Power".

He previously headed up the in-house consulting and transformation team of Emirates Group. He spent 7 years with Lufthansa Group, where he was the Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer. 

He began his career as a strategy consultant with Bain & Co. and was a partner at Seabury, a boutique airline consulting firm (now part of Accenture). He completed his M.B.A. at Harvard Business School and holds a B.A. and M.Phil in Management Studies from Cambridge University. He was included in the Financial Times Top 100 OUTstanding leaders list, the World Economic Forum´s Young Global Leaders and Capital Magazine's Top 40 under 40.