Artūrs Saveljevs (Executive MSc Airport Planning and Management 2015)
Member of the Board, Riga International Airport
Artūrs Saveljevs is a Board Member at Riga International Airport
Artūrs began his aviation career in 2003 when he joined Riga International Airport Operations. In 2005, he was appointed the Non-Aviation Marketing Manager and later the Director of the Marketing Department. He assumed the role of the Director of the Commercial Department in 2007 becoming responsible for the airport’s non-aviation commercial activities and in September 2017 he joined the Management Board of Riga Airport currently being responsible for all airport’s commercial activities and marketing.
He holds a Master’s degree in Airport Planning and Management from Cranfield University and Master’s degree in International Economics from the University of Latvia. He is also a member of the ACI Europe Commercial Forum where he heads Airport city/Real estate task force and is a Lecturer in Aviation Management at the Transport and Telecommunication Institute in Riga.
Artūrs is a frequent speaker on airport commercial development at various local and global industry events. He is also active in local community by counselling regional municipality on business development at the Business Advisory Council of Marupe Municipality.
In his free time Artūrs enjoys travelling with his family, playing tennis and supporting the local aviation community.