Airbus makes appointments for communications leadership team

Airbus has announced a raft of new appointments in its newly-created communications & corporate affairs function, which will go live on 1 January 2020. The new communications leadership team will work together to ensure business proximity, reinforcing audience centricity and growing digital, editorial and visual content capabilities. Maggie Bergsma, currently head of communications for ATR, is appointed head of communications commercial aircraft. In the new communications leadership team she will join Yves Barillé, head of communications helicopters, and Dirk Erat, head of communications defence & space. Philipp Encz is appointed head of creative core, a newly-created role in which he will lead Airbus’ creative content