Primary Job Title President Primary Organization 
ALPA
Location Washington, District of Columbia, United States Regions Washington DC Metro Area, Southern US Gender Male
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Captain Lee Moak is the ninth president of the Air Line Pilots Association, International (ALPA), which represents more than 51,000 professional airline pilots in the United States and Canada and is the largest non-governmental aviation safety organization in the world. He was elected by the union’s Board of Directors on Oct. 13, 2010, and began
his four-year term on Jan. 1, 2011.
As ALPA’s chief executive and administrative officer, Captain Moak oversees daily operations of the Association and presides over the meetings of ALPA’s governing bodies, which set policy for the organization. He is also the chief spokesman for the union, advancing pilots’ views in the airline industry before Congress, Parliament, government agencies, airline and other business executives, and also the news media.
As ALPA’s president, Captain Moak is a member of the AFL-CIO Executive Council as well as the Executive Committee of the AFL-CIO Transportation Trades Department, where he chairs the body’s Financial Oversight Committee. He serves on the FAA NextGen Advisory Committee (NAC), which is made up of industry decision makers and tasked with advising the administration on key-decision gates with regard to improving and modernizing the nation’s aviation infrastructure. Captain Moak is also one of 10 individuals appointed to the FAA Management Advisory Council, which advises the agency on management, policy, spending, and regulatory matters.
