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WIA Leadership
Simonetta Di Pippo
Simonetta Di Pippo was appointed as the ESA Director of Human Spaceflight (D/HSF) in April 2008 and took up duty on 15 June 2008. Mrs Di Pippo is an astrophysicist and, before joining ESA, worked for the Italian space agency (ASI) since 1986, even before it was actually formally established in 1998.
During her career she has held several key positions in fields such as Earth Observation, Advanced Studies, Robotic Systems and the International Space Station (ISS) Programme (as a delegate to the supervising Board since 1988) with broad responsibilities in programme management and international relations.
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Claudia Kessler
Claudia Kessler has more than 20 years' experience of working in the space industry. After graduating as an aerospace engineer, she started her career as Assistant to the Board of Directors at Kayser-Threde in Munich. From 1994 and 1998, she worked for Kayser-Threde in Leipzig before moving to Bremen to develop the commercial utilization of the ISS as Business Development Manager at Astrium.
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