Aireen Omar

Aireen Omar is President of AirAsia Group (AirAsia Digital). She is responsible for the airline’s digital strategy, promoting innovation throughout the group and encouraging collaboration across AirAsia’s businesses and markets.

She oversees large, digital strategic group-wide initiatives to help transform AirAsia Group into a global, cloud and data-driven and platform company. At AirAsia Digital, Aireen is also pivotal in incubating and growing the digital and fintech businesses such as Big Life, Big Pay, Teleport, Santan and in transforming airasia.com into more than just an airline platform.

She is also a non-executive director of Tune Protect Group Berhad.

Prior to this, Aireen was AirAsia Malaysia Executive Director and CEO. She joined AirAsia in January 2006 as Director of Corporate Finance, portfolio expanding quickly to also include Treasury, Fuel Procurement, and Investor Relations functions. Taking on these roles, she was instrumental in shaping the development of AirAsia into one of the fastest growing and most highly-acclaimed airlines globally.

Aireen is an Economics graduate of the London School of Economics and Political Science and also holds a Master’s Degree in Economics from New York University.