Dana Schulze, Managing Director of the National Transportation Safety Board
(NTSB), has been with the agency since 2002. She began her career with the Safety
Board as an Aircraft System Safety Investigator in the Office of Aviation Safety’s
Aviation Engineering Division and served as a Group Chairman and investigator on
numerous major domestic and international airline accident investigations, including
Alaska Airlines flight 261, Pinnacle Airlines flight 3701, and American Airlines flight
587.

In 2006, Ms. Schulze became Chief of the Aviation Engineering Division, responsible
for investigating the airworthiness of aircraft involved in major aviation accidents and
serious incidents. Ms. Schulze later served as the Chief of the Major Investigations
Division where she oversaw more than a dozen major airline accident investigations,
including the investigation of US Airways flight 1549 in Weehawken, New Jersey and
Colgan Air flight 3407 in Clarence Center, New York and subsequently as Deputy
Director, leading the organization’s execution of air carrier investigations and safety
initiatives as well as the development of emergent programs for unmanned aircraft
systems and commercial space accident investigation.

In 2018, she became the Acting Director of the Office of Aviation Safety and moved
into the Director role in 2019. In this role as a modal director, Ms. Schulze led the
agency’s entire portfolio of aviation and commercial space accident investigation
programs, including the office’s safety mission work overseas under the International
Civil Aviation Organization Annex 13 protocols. Ms. Schulze moved into her current
role as the Managing Director of the NTSB in 2021. In this position, Ms. Schulze acts
as the agency’s chief operating officer, providing overall leadership for the daily
operations of the agency and implementing strategies to optimize the NTSB’s
mission performance outcomes.

Prior to joining the NTSB, Ms. Schulze worked in the commercial aerospace industry
in staff engineering and engineering management roles related to design, system
safety, reliability, and quality. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Space
Sciences and Mechanical Engineering from the Florida Institute of Technology and
Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the State University of New
York. Ms. Schulze is also a recipient of the Distinguished Presidential Rank Award,
which recognizes a select group of career members of the United States Government
Senior Executive Service (SES) for sustained extraordinary accomplishments on a
national or international level