Ed Hazelwood is the RETIRED Editor-In-Chief of Aviation Week Conferences. Mr. Hazelwood has spent the last 30 years reporting on aviation, aerospace and defense. Currently he organizes numerous aviation/aerospace conferences that take place in the U.S., Europe and Asia. He has been chief correspondent for a national television news program devoted to aviation, editor of Air Traffic Control Market Report as well as other publications devoted to aerospace in Russia and China and ballistic missile defense in theUnited States.Mr. Hazelwood is co-author of the book, "What Ever Happened to the Cold War?, Planning for a New Era in Defense," the definitive study in 1991 of the U.S. defense industrial base and the strategies needed to enable industry to survive in the changing security environment.Throughout the 1990s he has conducted numerous studies that included research on European and Asia airports, an extensive analysis of the existing and unfolding airline market in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States.Mr. Hazelwood does significant public speaking at aviation and aerospace events and conferences around the world. He also routinely comments in the media on hot issues related to the industry.He has won numerous awards in journalism, including the InternationalAward for Best Continuing Coverage of a news story by the Radio andTelevision News Directors Association for a series of 55 stories in the causes of the sinking of the ship, Marine Electric.Specialties: writing, public speaking, photography, videography