Head of Research Dr. Marcelle A. Laliberté is Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer at HEC Paris and an academic researcher specializing in AI governance, STEM equity, and the space sector. Recognized by the United Nations as an expert on gender and AI ethics, she served on the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence, […]
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We would like to announce that Paola Belingheri will be stepping down from her role as a Women In Aerospace-Europe Board Member, where she served as Director of Research. We are deeply grateful for her contributions and wish her all the best in her next chapter. Paola Belingheri has been an active member of
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We would like to announce that Rachel Jenkins will be stepping down from her role as LinkedIn Management and Content Integration on the WIA-Europe Volunteer team at the end of this year. Rachel’s contributions have been truly invaluable—from curating the weekly Job Boards on LinkedIn and launching a new series highlighting women trailblazers in the
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Board Director Pieter van Beekhuizen has worked his whole professional life in the space domain, first with ESRO and later with ESA, and has occupied during this period a large variety of different staff functions and management responsibilities within ESA. His last assignment was Head of ESA Industrial Cost Auditing and Return Division which has
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Director of New Initiatives Joerg specialises in technology commercialisation – with a strong focus on space – and has been involved in numerous primarily international activities in both space and early-stage equity finance since 1987 (i.e., support to the creation and early years of RapidEye). After pursuing a first career in space business he became
Secretary of the Board, Women In Aerospace Europe Arianna Cagliari is Marketing and Sales Manager for Space at ELT Group, a leading company in the defense market. Before joining ELT Group, Arianna was the VP of Business Development and a Board Member at PICOSATS, an Italian company specializing in telecommunication systems for small satellites. Her
Mariella Graziano is an Italian Aerospace Engineer from the University of Rome La Sapienza. In 1996 she attended the Summer Session of the International Space University in Vienna. She started her professional career working for a small Italian and technology related company, TER SRL. In 1996 she moved to The Netherlands working for the European Space
Susan is the Founder of Oxford Human Performance, a coaching and training company which teaches high performance soft skills to people and companies in the space sector. Susan has over a decade of experience working in the space sector. She began at ESA as the Human Behaviour and Performance Instructor at the European Astronaut Centre
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Dr Heidi Thiemann is a project manager leading the Cornwall Space and Aerospace Technology Training (CSATT) project at Truro and Penwith College, where her team is setting up space apprenticeships and training to launch the Cornish space sector. She’s also the director and co-founder of the Space Skills Alliance, working on analysing space sector data,
Treasurer of Women In Aerospace Europe Anna Gregorio has a Laurea (from the University of Trieste) & Ph.D. (Scuola Normale Pisa) in Physics, and a Master in Space Systems Engineering (TU Delft). Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Trieste, coordinating the instrument teams of large scientific space missions (Planck, Euclid) of the European Space
