Jorge Mesa
Senior Director, Travel Risk Management at BCD Travel, GBTA Europe Advisory Board member
Jorge ensures the safety of business travelers and helps companies fulfill their duty of care obligations by assisting clients in the development of travel risk management plans, monitoring traveler exposure to risk during trips and ensuring rapid intervention if an incident takes place.
His team provides 24×7 support service, incident monitoring, crisis communication and coordination with third-party security providers. He also helps companies evaluate their travel risk management program’s maturity and provides benchmarking against industry standards.
Joining BCD Travel in 2007, Jorge is one of the founding members of BCD’s Global Crisis Management department, established in 2011. In 2012, he took responsibility for the department’s operations. Before joining BCD, he served as Groups Operations Executive for Axis & Globe Travel. He also has worked in sales at International Travel Consulting, ITC, and in distribution for Giorgio Armani.
He began his career as an executive account manager at Carlson Wagonlit Travel in Barcelona. He holds degrees in Hospitality and Tourism from University of Girona and in Marketing from EADA Business School. He served as Co-Chair on the Global Business Travel Association’s (GBTA) EMEA Risk Committee from 2020 to 2024 and is currently a GBTA Europe Advisory Board member.
Jorge received the 2022 GBTA Business Travel Service Award. He was recognized for his outstanding contribution to GBTA, their EMEA region and to the business travel profession.
Speaker topics:
- Duty of Care
- Travel Risk Management
- People Risk Management