{"id":20365,"date":"2020-12-17T15:17:51","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T14:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asi.it\/?p=20365"},"modified":"2020-12-17T15:37:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T14:37:17","slug":"josef-aschbacher-is-the-new-esa-director-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asi.it\/en\/2020\/12\/josef-aschbacher-is-the-new-esa-director-general\/","title":{"rendered":"Josef Aschbacher is the new ESA Director General"},"content":{"rendered":"The ESA Council appointed Dr Josef Aschbacher as the next Director General of ESA<!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe ESA Council appointed Josef Aschbacher as the next Director General of ESA. His appointment, taken today by the ESA Council, was made official during an online press conference held by ESA&#8217;s headquarters in Paris. He will succeed\u00a0 Jan W\u00f6rner, whose term of office ends on 30 June 2021,\u00a0 after a 6-year mandate.\r\n\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.asi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Josef_Aschbacher_article-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.asi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Josef_Aschbacher_article-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.asi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Josef_Aschbacher_article-684x1024.jpg 684w, https:\/\/www.asi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Josef_Aschbacher_article-768x1150.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.asi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Josef_Aschbacher_article.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>\r\n\r\nJosef Aschbacher is currently ESA Director of Earth Observation Programmes and Head of ESRIN, ESA\u2019s centre for Earth Observation near Rome. Born in Austria, Dr Aschbacher studied at the University of Innsbruck, where he obtained Masters and PhD degrees in Natural Sciences. He has over three decades of experience working in international organisations, including ESA, the European Commission, the Austrian Space Agency and Asian Institute of Technology.\r\n\r\n\u201c<span class=\"mark07pmmwun4 SSBqA0O5vTLfa9GC1wxGQ\" data-markjs=\"true\">Congratulations<\/span>\u00a0to\u00a0<b>Josef Aschbacher<\/b>\u00a0for his appointment as new ESA Director General: ASI looks forward to a close and successful collaboration. Sincere thanks to\u00a0<b>Johann-Dietrich<\/b>\u00a0<b>W\u00f6rner<\/b> for the excellent work accomplished during his mandate and the goals achieved for the \u00a0European Space Agency &#8211; is the comment of\u00a0<b>Giorgio Saccoccia, President of the Italian Space Agency<\/b>.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ESA Council appointed Dr Josef Aschbacher as the next Director General of ESA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19948,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[44,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-agency","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - 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