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The Space Sector Unlocked Program is taught by the people who have not just studied space, they have run it.
The faculty brings together ESA executives, agency directors, mission leaders, and industry pioneers with decades of operational experience at the highest levels of European and global space. They have directed Earth Observation programs that monitor the planet in real time. Managed missions to comets. Built the regulatory frameworks that govern how the world uses orbit. Led the agencies that define Europe's strategic position in space.
They are not here to lecture. They are here because the gap between knowing the sector and leading it is one they have spent their careers crossing, and because the conversations that happen in this room do not happen anywhere else.
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Academic Director of The Space Sector Unlocked Program
Academic Director of The Space Sector Unlocked Program
Elena Grifoni is a senior aerospace professional with decades of experience in European space policy and governance. Former space leader in the Italian Prime Minister’s Office and long‑time ESA executive, she teaches and advises institutions on Space strategy and international cooperation.
Elena Grifoni Winters
Elena Grifoni Winters
Academic Director
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