ESA top management
ESA’s Director General is assisted by 11 Directors, each of whom is responsible for one of ESA’s programmes or for administering part of the agency.
Josef Aschbacher - ESA Director General
Dr Josef Aschbacher is the ESA Director General.
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Dietmar Pilz - Director of TEC
Dr Dietmar Pilz is the Director of Technology, Engineering and Quality (D/TEC), and Head of ESTEC, Noordwijk, the Netherlands.
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Christine Klein - Acting Director of CFO
Christine Klein is the acting Director of Controlling, Finance and Operational Procurement (D/CFO).
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Eric Morel de Westgaver - Director of SLE
Eric Morel de Westgaver is the Directorate of Strategy, Legal and External Affairs (D/SLE), and Head of ESA HQ, Paris, France.
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Daniel Neuenschwander - Director of HRE
Daniel Neuenschwander is the Director of Human and Robotic Exploration (D/HRE), and Head of EAC, Cologne, Germany.
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Simonetta Cheli - Director of EOP
Simonetta Cheli is the Director of Earth Observation Programmes (D/EOP), and Head of ESRIN, Frascati, Italy.
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Francisco-Javier Benedicto-Ruiz - Director of NAV
Francisco-Javier Benedicto-Ruiz is the Director of Navigation (D/NAV)
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Laurent Jaffart - Director of RNC
Laurent Jaffart is the Director of Resilience, Navigation and Connectivity (D/RNC), and Head of ECSAT, Harwell, UK.
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Carole Mundell - Director of SCI
Prof. Carole Mundell is the Director of Science (D/SCI), and Head of ESAC, near Madrid, Spain.
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Marco Ferrazzani - Director of RES
Marco Ferrazzani is the Director of Resources and Services (D/RES).
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Rolf Densing - Director of OPS
Rolf Densing is the Director of Operations (D/OPS), and Head of ESOC, Darmstadt, Germany.
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Géraldine Naja - Director of STS
Géraldine Naja is the Director of Space Transportation (D/STS) and acting Director of Commercialisation and Industry Partnership (D/CIP).
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