Jean-Michel Vernhes (born in 1950 at Mazamet) is a French aerospace engineer and businessman. He is the current President of French Airports (Union des aéroports français) and of Toulouse-Blagnac Airport.
Graduate from the French Civil Aviation University (1971), Jean-Michel Vernhes starts his career in 1975 at the air traffic control center of Bordeaux. He has done a career of 20 years in air navigation. He is nominated President of Toulouse-Blagnac Airport in 1999.
The 18th of May 2011, in addition, he become President of the French Airports (Union des aéroports français).
Award
Officier of the Légion d'honneur.
Bibliography
Académie nationale de l'air et de l'espace and Lucien Robineau, Les français du ciel, dictionnaire historique, Le Cherche midi, June 2005, 782 p. ()