New ESA Directorate for Commercialisation

To boost commercialisation in the European space sector, ESA and its partners need to evolve, focusing on three key ingredients: talent, access to capital, and fast innovation. ESA will also appoint for the first time a Head of Commercialisation Department later in 2021.

The Director of Commercialisation, Industry & Procurement is responsible for elaborating and implementing ESA’s industrial policy, representing the Director General in all relations with industry, elaborating and implementing the Agency’s procurement rules and policies, and conducting negotiations and managing procurement for all activities and programmes. The Director will also support the industrialisation and the commercialisation of space products and services, the scale-up on global markets, as well as access to investments and finance for European space industry.