 Jean-Jacques Dordain

Jean-Jacques Dordain (born 14 April 1946) was Director General of the European Space Agency between 2003 and 2015.Graduating at École Centrale Paris in 1968, Dordain began his scientific career in the French Aerospace Research Agency (ONERA) and later worked as a professor at the National Higher School of Aeronautics and Aerospace in the 1970s and 1980s.