Dr. Michael Romanowski has a distinguished and diverse background, spanning executive leadership positions for aviation and space in the federal government, industry, and trade associations. “Dr. Mike” is currently a Senior Advisor at JTR Strategies, where he brings clients his unparalleled experience and respected voice to advance effective aerospace policy and regulation, safety, and innovation. He possesses a deep understanding of advanced technologies and their pathways for implementation into operations, gained in the private sector and during more than 14 years at the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) leading the agency’s efforts on air traffic control modernization, commercial space transportation, and the regulations, guidance and policy for design, production and continued operational safety for all aircraft and their systems.

Dr. Romanowski also served for three years in the White House as the Aviation & Aeronautics Advisor to the Chief Technology Officer of the United States, and as the Executive Director of the National Science & Technology Council’s Subcommittee on Aeronautics. While there, he sponsored interagency initiatives to accelerate air traffic modernization, streamline environmental reviews for implementing new airspace and air-route concepts, ensure public privacy protections from federal drone operations, enhance research and policy to support the production and distribution of sustainable aviation fuels (SAF), and accelerate technology transfer to the private sector from federal research laboratories.

Before joining the FAA, Dr. Romanowski was concurrently the President of the National Center for Advanced Technologies and the Vice President of Civil Aviation at the Aerospace Industries Association, where he led the association’s efforts to advance aviation safety, security, environmental performance, national airspace infrastructure, and federal research and development policies. He also headed government relations at Archer Aviation, and he headed safety and certification at Pratt & Whitney and Sikorsky Aircraft. While at Pratt & Whitney he was one of the founders of the Commercial Aviation Safety Team, which received the Collier Trophy in 2008 for its transformational work that delivered more than an 80% reduction in the US fatal accident rate between 1997 – 2007.