# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/willie-walsh
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:52:50.725Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/willie-walsh"
name: "Willie Walsh"
slug: "willie-walsh"
description: "William Matthew Walsh is an Irish airline executive who is currently the director general of the International Air Transport Association. Until 2020, he was CEO of International Airlines Group, and had previously been CEO of Aer Lingus and British Airways."
tagline: "Irish airline executive"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Willie_Walsh_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1961-10-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.38
  momentum:             15
  historical:           7.850698666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Matthew_Walsh"
    title: "William Matthew Walsh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4"
    title: "فيلي والش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%89_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4"
    title: "فيلى والش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Walsh_(businessman)"
    title: "Willie Walsh (businessman)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Walsh"
    title: "Willie Walsh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B4"
    title: "ویلی واش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Walsh"
    title: "Willie Walsh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Walsh"
    title: "Willie Walsh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%80_%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B7%E0%B1%8D_(%E0%B0%B5%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%AA%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%B5%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%A4)"
    title: "విల్లీ వాల్ష్ (వ్యాపారవేత్త)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3569110"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump