Xavier Lagardere

Xavier Lagardère has been appointed as Head of Data Strategy and Transformation for Lufthansa Group in January 2021. He is responsible for LHGs data strategy & governance and enables the transformation of LHG towards a data-driven airline group. With his appointment as Vice President Project Innovation Management leading the establishment of the Groupwide Innovation Management, he is now also responsible for accelerating innovation, setting up of innovation partnerships and aligning the Group's innovation potential. Xavier Lagardère began his professional career as Research & Development engineer at HP in 2003. In 2005 he joined the travel & mobility industry taking a position at Amadeus IT Group with responsibility for product development and innovation. For Groupon he was appointed business unit director, responsible for the travel business in France. Xavier joined Lufthansa Group in 2013 as Vice President online retail & distribution at Brussels Airlines where he set up new direct distribution channels with a focus on online sales. In 2016 his responsibility expanded to defining the go-to-market strategy and the global channel solutions for Lufthansa, SWISS and Austrian Airlines. He is a board member of several companies in the travel & mobility sector and holds various patents in the domain of travel & mobility system automation and passenger interaction. Xavier holds a master degree in computer science from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and a Master in Business Administration from INSEAD.