Laurent Jaffart

Laurent Jaffart is expected to join ESA from Airbus in the first semester of 2024, where he is currently Vice President and Head of Strategy, Corporate and New Business Development for Space Systems.

As Director of Connectivity and Secure Communications, Laurent Jaffart will be responsible for ESA’s satellite telecommunication programmes, namely the implementation of the full portfolio of ARTES 4.0 projects in partnership with European and Canadian industries and operators and developing the programme’s commercial nature.

He will also be responsible for strategic programme lines related to 5G/6G non-terrestrial network integration, secure communications, and quantum/optical technologies and for the new portfolio of programmes approved at the ESA Ministerial Council in 2022, namely the ESA contribution to EU Secure Connectivity Programme IRIS2, Moonlight, and Civil Security from Space.