Heiner Klinkrad has a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering. He has held a number of flight dynamics and mission analyst positions at ESA since 1980, and since 1988 he has worked on space debris. He assumed lead of ESA's Space Debris Office in 2006. Since 2001, he has also taught space debris at the Technical University of Braunschweig/ILR. In addition to a number of standardisation activities, he leads the ESA delegation to the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee and serves on the ISO (International Standards Organisation) Orbital Debris Coordination Working Group.