John Mullen (born 1955) is an Australian businessman and corporate executive who is the current chairman of Qantas, since October 2024.
[1] From 1990 to 1994, Mullen began in the corporate world as the chief executive officer of TNT Express Worldwide, based in the Netherlands.
According to the Australian Financial Review, complaints had declined by 70% whilst he was chairman.
[4] Since becoming chairman, Mullen has promised to move Qantas away from an advocacy position on social issues, to one based more on corporate responsibility and political neutrality.
[5] Apart from Mullen's executive and corporate positions, he has worked in various roles at the US National Foreign Trade Council in Washington, as well as being a member of the UNICEF Task Force on Workplace Gender Discrimination and Harassment between 2018 and 2019.