Danilo Rubini
Head of the Office for Relations with the EU, Italian Space Agency
current head of the Relations with the European Union, under the International Affairs Directorate of the Italian Space Agency (ASI), has over twenty years of experience in the aerospace sector. Today, among the various activities, covers the role of National Delegate for the Administrative Board of the European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA), delegate in the Space Policy Expert Group of the European Commission for the proposal of the space activities for the next MFF (SPEG), responsible in ASI for the bilateral relations with Countries of the European area and ASI coordinator for the participation to Space Programme Committees of the EC.
Graduated with honors in Mechanical Engineering with specialization in Numerical Fluid-Dynamics at the University of Sapienza (Rome, 1998), he continued his studies with a Master of Science in Engineering Policy and Management of Technology in the IN+ Institute at the Instituto Superior Tecnico (Lisbon, PT), the Master SpaceTech in space systems and applications at the University of Delft (NL) and executive courses like: Space System Architecture and Design (MIT Sloan); Technology Foresight (PREST, Univ. Manchester); Project Innovation (Uni. Bocconi).
In the Italian Space Agency, he has been Head of the Technology Office, has been working for the Marketing Unit and previously for the Small and Medium Enterprises Unit. Today advisor for the ESA Council, he has been part of the National Delegation for the ESA Industrial Policy Committee since 2006, then National Delegate for the ESA Technology Harmonization Advisory Group for more than ten years, National Delegate and Advisor for the Space Technical Expert Group of the European Commission in the programs H2020 and Horizon Europe, National Delegate in the JTF (Joint Task Force) ESA-EC-EDA on Critical Technologies; ASI delegate for the OECD Space Forum. He has been Project Manager for several technology development projects, had subsystem specialist roles in the ASI concurrent engineering programs for the feasibility design of space missions.