GonzaloMartíndeMercadoPérez氏

As part of the Space Solutions team, Gonzalo is working in an overall Lunar Economy strategy. The working roadmap contemplates assessing the requirements of value chains for future Moon-based services. The strategy intends to involve broad sectors of the economy into future Moon- related operations. Prior to this he worked on the ESA Investor Forum, a platform that helped European scale-ups to raise capital, as well as ESA’s first Space for Fintech challenge, attracting the attention of London, Paris and Luxembourg’s banking community to the companies involved. Previous roles in the agency included working on institutional programmes like the eHealth for sub-Saharan Africa and Space4Med sponsored by the European Investment Bank. Before joining ESA, Gonzalo spent ten years working as team leader and engineer in space technology development for INSA S.A. (FUEGO and SMOS missions). He worked with big names in the Space industry including DLR, Alcatel Space, Alenia Aeronautica, Sener and INTA.