Wouter Vermeulen is Air France-KLM's general manager for the Southern African Region. He began his career in the KLM management trainee programme, where he participated in an intensive training programme in four different divisions of KLM. His last position in this programme was as director of inventory management from where he progressed to commercial director for Air France KLM for South America in 2015. In 2018 he took up his current position in Johannesburg.