Hobson Leavy is delighted to announce the appointment of Fred Stein to the role of Deputy Chief Executive Aviation Security, with the Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand.
Fred is a seasoned aviation leader, having spent the last ~20 years of his career with the Transport Security Administration (TSA). TSA is a critical regulatory body under the United States’ Department of Homeland Security, responsible for ensuring passenger security across more than 450 national airports.
Fred began his career with the United States Army, spending time as a member of the Judge Advocate General Corps, focused primarily on International and Operational Law. He joined TSA in 2005, going on to gain a breadth of leadership experience across security operations, compliance, and cyber security. Fred spent a period as Director of Training and Development, tasked with overhauling TSA’s certification regime and approach to training more than 60,000 frontline security personnel working in airports and across US transportation hubs. Following this, Fred spent five years as Transportation Security Attache for the US Embassy, based in Singapore, with responsibility for government-to-government aviation security relationships for ten countries.
Most recently, Fred served as the Senior Executive responsible for ten states in the Upper Mid-West, leading a team focused on land-based modes of transportation, including mass transit, freight rail, highway motor carrier and pipeline, as part of TSA’s broader transportation responsibility. This included working across the security spectrum, from coordinating with land-based transport stakeholders to improve physical security, to the introduction and enhancement of cybersecurity initiatives across these transportation modes.
Fred and his family will be relocating to New Zealand and seeing him assume his new role in July. Please join us in congratulating Fred on his appointment!
