Lufthansa Group chief executive officer Carsten Spohr has assumed his duties as chairman of the IATA Board of Governors (BoG) for a one-year term effective from the conclusion of the 75th IATA Annual General Meeting in Seoul. 
Spohr is the 78th chair of the IATA BoG. He has served on the BoG since May 2014.
Spohr succeeds Qatar Airways Group chief executive HE Akbar al-Baker, who will continue to serve on the BoG.
Spohr has been chairman of the Executive Board of Deutsche Lufthansa AG since 2014. In this role, he manages the Lufthansa Group comprising the business segments Network Airlines, Eurowings and Aviation Services, with around 135,000 employees worldwide.
IATA also announced that KLM Royal Dutch Airlines will host the 76th IATA Annual General Meeting (AGM) and World Air Transport Summit in Amsterdam, the Netherlands in June 2020. 
This will be the third time that the Netherlands will host the global gathering of aviation’s top leaders (Following events held in the Hague in 1949 and Amsterdam in 1969).
KLM is a founding member of IATA and is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year.