Kerry Lynch stepped into the role of editor of the&nbsp;Aviation International News&nbsp;monthly magazine in May 2022 after serving with&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;for eight years. She joined&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;in December 2014 as a senior editor covering Washington and business aviation news. She has also served on Convention News teams, including as editor of&nbsp;HAI Convention News. Lynch previously spent 25 years with Aviation Week. During her time there, she reported for and later steered&nbsp;The Weekly of Business Aviation, oversaw business aviation content on the&nbsp;Aviation Week Intelligence Network, served on the&nbsp;Show News&nbsp;staff, and held roles as the Washington columnist for&nbsp;Business &amp; Commercial Aviation&nbsp;and&nbsp;Overhaul &amp; Maintenance&nbsp;monthly magazines. In 2021 she was honored with the National Business Aviation Association Platinum Wing Award for lifetime achievement in journalism and was the 2004 recipient of the National Air Transportation Association’s Aviation Journalism Excellence Award. She also has been a recipient of an Aerospace Media Award for business aviation (2022) and NBAA Gold Wing Award (2003, 2024). Lynch graduated from The Ohio State University with a bachelor of arts in journalism.

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The Aerospace Industries Association is urging Senate Banking Committee chairman Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) to move quickly on a new round of nominations to the Export-Import Bank board of directors, saying the bank has languished without a quorum for too long. On September 15, the White House announced its intent to nominate Claudia Slacik and Judith Delzoppo Pryor to the board, as well as Kimberly Reed to be first vice-president.

 


Reed, a former senior advisor under U.S. Treasury Secretaries John Snow and Henry Paulson, most recently was president of the International Food Information Council Foundation. Both Pryor and Slacik served under the Obama administration, Pryor as vice president of external affairs for the Overseas Private Investment Corp. and Slacik as Ex-Im chief banking officer. They join previous nominees former congressmen Spencer Bachus and Scott Garrett on the Ex-Im nomination slate, although Garrett has drawn strong opposition from manufacturing groups.

 


AIA president and CEO David Melcher noted the association strongly supports the Reed, Slacik, Pryor and Bachus nominations. “This group exhibits the track record of leadership and belief in the mission of the bank to restore it to full functionality,” Melcher said. “The bank has been languishing without a quorum of at least three members on its board, unable to fulfill its mission or process transactions exceeding $10 million.”

 


He urged Sen. Crapo to schedule hearings as quickly as possible. “By the bank’s latest estimate, more than $30 billion dollars of U.S. export sales are unable to be completed without a board quorum,” he said.

 


Melcher also echoed sentiments shared with the National Association of Manufacturers in reiterating opposition to the nomination of Garrett as chairman “due to his stated opposition to the Bank’s mission” and said, “Aerospace companies—small, medium and large—need a chairman and a full slate of Ex-Im board members who will bolster American export sales opportunities that lead to job growth here at home.”

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