{"id":1737,"date":"2015-02-08T14:54:37","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T14:54:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-02-08T14:54:37","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T14:54:37","slug":"faa-names-wei-deputy-director-airport-planning-and-programming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/news\/faa-names-wei-deputy-director-airport-planning-and-programming\/%20","title":{"rendered":"FAA Names Wei as Deputy Director Airport Planning and Programming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\\wp-content\\uploads\/VWei4.jpg\" align=\"right\" width=\"172\" height=\"183\" alt=\"VWei4.jpg\" \/> Victoria Wei has been named the FAA\u2019s new Deputy Director of the Office of Airport Planning and Programming in Washington DC. Wei, who currently serves as the Director, NextGen Performance and Outreach, has over 18 years of experience in the transportation and aviation sectors, including serving as an attorney with DOT and FAA, as well as two private legal practices (Morrison &#038; Foerster, where she served as legal counsel for airport clients, industry associations, and other private-sector clients; and Galland, Kharasch, Greenberg, Fellman &#038; Swirsky). <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m thrilled at the chance to continue working at the FAA in this new capacity,\u201d said Wei. \u201cThe work we do at the agency is so important, and our nation\u2019s airports are a vital part of that.\u201d  Victoria has an undergraduate degree from Harvard and a law degree from Northwestern University. She began her professional career as a DOT Honors Attorney, which included rotations throughout DOT and FAA. She then spent 2 more years with FAA as a Legislative Attorney before spending 4 years in private practice. She returned to FAA in 2007.<br \/>\nWei said she is really looking forward to meeting everyone and working with all of their stakeholders to continue strengthening our airport infrastructure.<br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n<div class=\"field_attachment\">\n<div><b>Attachment:<\/b><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"\/\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victoria Wei has been named the FAA\u2019s new Deputy Director of the Office of Airport Planning and Programming in Washington DC. Wei, who currently serves as the Director, NextGen Performance and Outreach, has over 18 years of experience in the transportation and aviation sectors, including serving as an attorney with DOT and FAA, as well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-district-of-columbia","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\\wp-content\\uploads\/VWei4.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}