Brandon Mitchener has been appointed chief executive officer of the European Business Aviation Association (EBAA), effective 3 April 2017. A French and US citizen, Mitchener has more than 25 years of experience as a journalist and in handling public affairs in Europe and Brussels. He worked as a journalist and foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, The International Herald Tribune and Dow Jones Newswires in New York, Germany and Brussels for 15 years at the starting of his career.
He served as director of public relations EMEA for First Solar Inc., where he launched the company’s corporate communications presence in India, China, Thailand and Vietnam. Later, Mitchener headed corporate communications for Monsanto Co. in Europe and the Middle East for four years, where he helped position agricultural technology as part of the solution to global food security challenges. Mitchener also worked as a European public affairs consultant at APCO Worldwide for four years, advising numerous blue-chip companies, business associations, non-profit organisations and governments on relations with the EU, the media and other stakeholders.
