Paul Griffiths runs the world’s largest airport in terms of international traffic. If that were not enough, he’s also masterminding the rollout of what is likely to become the world’s biggest airport full stop (with an estimated 200 million passengers a year) over the course of the next decade or so. Griffiths became CEO of Dubai Airports in 2007, and he has overseen the operations and development of one of the busiest airports in the world. He managed the airport’s successful launch of Terminal 3 in 2008 and is currently overseeing Dubai International’s $7.8bn redevelopment plan. Griffiths was previously managing director of London’s Gatwick Airport, the second largest airport in the UK. Before joining airport operator BAA in 2004, he spent 14 years with the Virgin Group, working closely with Sir Richard Branson as a board director of the Virgin Travel Group, looking over commercial activities of both Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Trains. In the 1980s, he spent four years in Hong Kong developing the marketing, commercial planning and technology functions for the then start-up airline Dragonair.