Director General of the European Space Agency
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The Director General of the European Space Agency is the highest-ranked official of the European Space Agency
European Space Agency
The European Space Agency , established in 1975, is an intergovernmental organisation dedicated to the exploration of space, currently with 18 member states...

 (ESA), a space agency formed by the collaboration of prominent Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

an nations.

ELDO Secretaries General

Photograph Name Term start Term end Term length Ref(s)
di CarrobioDr. Renzo Carrobio di Carrobio 19641964 19721972 8Eight years
AubinièreGeneral Robert Aubinière
Robert Aubinière
Robert Aubinière was a french military, born in Paris. He was director of CNES and ELDO Secretaries General .-External links:* * *...

19721972 19751975 3Three years
AubinièreDr. George Van Reeth 19751975 19751975 5Five months

ESRO Directors General

Photograph Name Term start Term end Term length Ref(s)
AugerDr. Pierre Auger 19641964 19671967 3Three years
BondiSir Herman Bondi 19671967 19711971 4Four years
HockerDr. Alexander Hocker 19711971 19741974 3Three years
GibsonDr. Roy Gibson
Roy Gibson
Roy Gibson was a Director General of ESRO, and the first Director General of ESA, serving from 1975 until 1980.- Early years :Mr Gibson was born in 1924 and educated at the Universities of Oxford and London...

19741974 19751975 1One year

Director General

Photograph Name Term start Term end Term length Ref(s)
GibsonDr. Roy Gibson
Roy Gibson
Roy Gibson was a Director General of ESRO, and the first Director General of ESA, serving from 1975 until 1980.- Early years :Mr Gibson was born in 1924 and educated at the Universities of Oxford and London...

19751975 19801980 5Five years
QuistgaardErik Quistgaard 1980 1984 4Four years
LüstProf. Reimar Lüst
Reimar Lüst
Reimar Lüst is a German astrophysicist. He was the director general of the European Space Agency from 1984 until 1990. Dr...

1984 1990 6Six years
LutonJean-Marie Luton
Jean-Marie Luton
Jean-Marie Luton is a French aerospace engineer who was the Director General of the European Space Agency from 1990 to 1997. He also served in French space agency CNES and as the head of the aerospace arm of Aérospatiale. He was the Chairman and CEO of Arianespace from 1997 to 2002...

1990 1997 7Seven years
RodotàAntonio Rodotà
Antonio Rodotà
Antonio Rodotà was the fifth Director General of the European Space Agency , serving from 1997 until 2003. He died in Rome on February 23, 2006, aged 70.- Early years :Mr Rodotà was born on 24 December 1935 in Cosenza, Italy...

1997 2003 6Six years
DordainJean-Jacques Dordain
Jean-Jacques Dordain
Jean-Jacques Dordain is the current Director General of the European Space Agency and has held the position since 2003....

2003 Incumbent

See also

  • Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  • Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization
    Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization
    The Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization is the highest-ranked official of the Indian Space Research Organization , the space agency of the India. The Indian National Committee for Space Research was found in 1962 with Vikram Sarabhai as its chairman. The Indian Space Research...

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