Michel Laffaiteur


	Vice President - Strategy Michel Laffaiteur

Education

Graduate in economic sciences and from the "Institut français de gestion"
Graduate in international relations, from the "Centre des Hautes Etudes pour l'Afrique et l'Asie" (depending of "Sciences Politiques" and "Premier Ministre").

Experience

In charge of the relations with ESA for the use of the Kourou space center until 1985.
Special assistant to the CNES's Secretary General for Guiana affairs until 1992.
Joined the International Directorate in 1993. In charge of relations with African and Mediterranean countries until 1999 and of the UN Committee for the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space from 1996 to now.
From Nov. 2001, detached from CNES to DLR (Germany) in the Strategy Development unit, dealing mainly with International Affairs (UN and international cooperation).