Voss, formerly ICAO's air navigation director, assumed the FSF lead role last week amid the ongoing investigation into the Gol 737-800 crash in Brazi.

The new title will be published monthly for a controlled circulation that includes all 2000 FSF members as well as executives at air carriers, maintenance organizations, industry manufacturers and suppliers, and civil aviation authorities.

Federal Reserve System--who had already assumed leadership of the Committee on the Global Financial System in Basel--was put at the helm of the Financial Stability Forum, There was fear that the combination of an IMF veteran heading the BIS and a key aide to Alan Greenspan heading the FSF would make it much easier for the Americans to steer discussion of such sensitive topics as high U.