Brandon Wild, Ph.D.
Biography
Brandon Wild is a professor in the Aviation Department at the University of North Dakota (UND) teaching the following courses: Aviation Safety, Airline Operations and Management, Aviation Insurance, and Aviation Safety Analysis. He is the co-co-Principal Investigator for the FAA funded National General Aviation Flight Information Database (NGAFID) which is the light general aviation portal to the FAA’s ASIAS database. Brandon is also the chair of UND’s Flight Data Monitoring Event Review Committee and a member of the FAA’s General Aviation Safety Issue Analysis Team (IAT). He is the co-author of two books: “Aviation Safety – The Basics” and "Introduction to Aviation Safety."
Prior to joining the faculty at UND, Brandon worked for over 15 years in aviation safety and airline management. He began his career as a Flight Safety Analyst at United Airlines from 1997-2000. He then joined the United Parcel Service (UPS) Airline Safety Department as that company’s first FOQA Analyst, helping to create the UPS FOQA program in 2000. Brandon then joined the United States Aircraft Insurance Group (USAIG) in 2002 as an aviation underwriter. In 2004, Brandon became the FOQA Manager at Northwest Airlines and helped to upgrade the program from a test program to a fully functioning FOQA program. With the merger with Delta Air Lines, Brandon successfully led the effort to stand up the Delta FOQA program and integrate the Northwest and Delta FOQA Monitoring Teams into one FOQA team at Delta. During the period of 2005 through 2012, Brandon was also an adjunct instructor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, teaching various aviation safety and management courses.
Brandon earned a Ph.D. in Educational Foundations and Research from the University of North Dakota. He also holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Aviation and a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Studies, both from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.