Chiara Manfletti holds a degree in aeronautical engineering from Imperial College London, a masters degree in space studies from the International Space University in Strasbourg and a PhD from German University of Aachen. She also holds a masters in history from the UK Open University. She worked for the German Aerospace Center, DLR, as a research engineer in the field of liquid rocket propulsion and later joined the European Space Agency in 2016, where she has been the Programme Advisor to the Director General at the agency's headquarters in Paris and guided the process of preparing ESA Ministerial Meetings and coordinating programmatic content proposed to Member States for subscription and their financial elements. She was nominated President of the then just founded Portuguese national space agency, Portugal Space.
Speaker
Prof. Chiara Manfletti
Policy and Programme Coordinator, the European Space Agency
