BTN announced its
annual list of the 25 Most Influential People in Business Travel on Monday. To arrive at the list, BTN editors tracked the trends and events impacting business travel and identified the people who exerted pressure on the market, influenced traveler behavior and changed the way travel managers do their jobs. BTN's full editorial coverage, including the rationale behind each choice, will be published in BTN's Dec. 16 issue and simultaneously on businesstravelnews.com. Here are the 25 Most Influential in alphabetical order:
- Ritesh Agarwal, Founder, Oyo Rooms
- Suzanne Boyan, Travel Operations Manager, ZS Associates
- Steve Brackney, SVP & Chief Administrative Officer,
Enterprise Group
- Enrique Cueto Plaza, CEO, Latam
- Makan Delrahim, Assistant Attorney General, U.S. Dept.
of Justice
- Marcus Eklund, Managing Director, FCM
- Naresh Goyal, Founder & Chairman, Jet Airways
- Dave Harvey, VP Southwest Business, Southwest Airlines
- Suzanne Horner, CEO, Gray Dawes Travel & Chair of the
Business Travel Association (formerly GTMC)
- Igor Kwiatkowski, Executive Manager Sales &
Distribution, Qantas
- Carrie Lam, Chief Executive, Hong Kong
- Jeff Lobl, Managing Director Global Distribution &
Omnichannel Strategy, Delta Air Lines
- Kathryn Marinello, CEO, Hertz
- Dennis Muilenburg, CEO, Boeing
- Andrew Nocella, Executive Vice President & CCO,
United Airlines
- Karl Racine, Attorney General, District of Columbia
- Moshe Rafiah, CEO, Travelfusion
- 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals 3 Judge Panel: Robert
D. Sack, Debra A. Livingston, Denny Chin
- Paul Singer, Investor, Elliott Management
- John Snyder, CEO, BCD Travel
- Greta Thunberg, Environmental Activist
- Donald Trump, President of the United States
- Willie Walsh, CEO, IAG
- Josh Wood, Global Head of Business Travel Partnerships,
Booking.com
- Feng Zhenglin, Director, Civil Aviation Administration
of China
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