Dr Silvia Ciccarelli
Head of Support to the Internationalization of Companies and National Economy Missions Office, International Affairs Directorate, Italian Space Agency (ASI)
Silvia Ciccarelli works at the Italian Space Agency (ASI) in the International Affairs Directorate and is in charge of fostering and implementing ASI initiatives for the internationalisation and promotion of national space industry. She is also in charge of the relations with industrial stakeholders.
She is National Delegate to the ESA Human Spaceflight, Microgravity and Exploration Programme Board.
She is ASI representative at the OECD Space Forum, ESA Space Economy Steering Committee, ISECG and other international fora.
In the previous years she worked in the frame of industrial policy initiatives with a specific focus to support competitiveness of Space small and medium companies and managed national activities in the European Commission Horizon 2020 Configuration Space.
Prior to joining the Italian Space Agency in 2013 she worked in italian and european space industry associations (AIPAS and SME4SPACE).
She holds a Ph.D. and a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” and was a post-doc in US.