Jan Wörner and ESA directors

Jan Wörner, ESA Director General and ESA directors, at the ESA Pavilion, during the Paris Air and Space Show, on 19 June 2017, after an interaction with media on ‘Space 4.0’, an era in which the space sector evolves from being the preserve of the governments of a few spacefaring nations to a new reality, with an increased number of diverse space actors around the world, from public to private, from local to global, from academia to citizens.

From left to right: Daniel Neuenschwander, ESA Director of Space Transportation; David Parker, ESA Director of Human Spaceflight and Robotic Exploration; Eric Morel de Westgaver, ESA Director of Industry, Procurement and Legal Services; Jean Max Puech, ESA Director of Internal Services; Jan Wörner, ESA Director General; Magali Vaissiere, ESA Director of Telecommunications and Integrated Applications; Alvaro Giménez Cañete, ESA Director of Science; Rolf Densing, ESA Director of Operations; and Franco Ongaro, ESA Director of Technology, Engineering and Quality.