François Mery has become Chief Operating Officer for Airbus China effective February 1st, 2016.

Previously Mr. Francois Mery was Head of Aerostructure Procurement within Airbus. In this role, he was responsible for sourcing and providing all Airbus programmes with Aerostructure on time, on cost and on quality.Before that, François Mery was Head of Equipment, System and Support in charge of purchasing and supply chain for equipment and support.Prior to this, François Mery had held a number of senior management positions in procurement, sales, project management and strategy etc.Mr. Francois Mery has been serving Airbus for more than 30 years since he joined the company in 1982.

François was born in 1957 in Cannes, France. He received his education in Aeronautics Engineering specializing in Automatics. He’s a bilinguist, speaking French and English. François is keen on scuba diving and enjoys reading extensively.