Giampiero Di Paolo

Giampiero Di Paolo is Deputy CEO, Senior Vice President Observation, Exploration and Navigation Domain at Thales Alenia Space as well as CEO of Thales Alenia Space Italia. He is a distinguished Aerospace Executive with a proven track record in Navigation and Observation domain, leading multi-million euro programs such as Copernicus, the Earth Observation component of the European Union's space programme and Galileo Second Generation, Europe's civil global satellite navigation constellation. He is renowned for securing major contracts with the European Space Agency, Italian Space Agency, and European Commission, with expertise that spans program management, business development, and proposal preparation, enriched by a deep understanding of telecommunication payload design, as evidenced by his publications on Ka-band applications, future payload developments, and secure telecommunication.