The chair for the ESA council for the next couple of years will be the Director General of CDTI (the Spanish Innovation Agency, a part of the Ministry of Industry Tourism and Trade), Mr. Maurici Lucena. He will begin his chairmanship on July 1st. He was unanimously elected the Chairman of the ESA Council at the 199th ESA Council meeting held at ESRIN, ESA’s European Center for Earth Observation in Frascati, Italy, on March 13th and 14th. His predecessor, Mr. Per Tegnér of Sweden, steps down from the position on June 30th.
Born in 1975 in Barcelona, Spain, Maurici Lucena graduated in Economics and Management Sciences at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona in 1997. He was awarded a Master of Economics and Finance at CEMFI (Centre for monetary and financial studies; Bank of Spain) in Madrid in 1999. He worked for five years as a consultant in different fields of economic analysis and as an Associate Professor in the Department of Economy of the University Carlos III in Madrid. In 2004 he was appointed Director General of CDTI and has since then been the Head of the Spanish Delegation at ESA.
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