Mr. Luca del Monte is a senior executive at the European Space Agency with strong background in industrial policy making, strategy development and deep tech. After having spent several years in space industry and insitutions across Europe, he joined the Agency where he held positions of progressing responsibilities in the strategy and industrial policy areas.
Luca is now the Head of the ESA Commercialisation Department which support European space entrepreneurs in the journey to commercialisation and to sustainable scale-up on the global markets, providing a full range of services including business incubation, transfer of technology and connection with the investors community.
He holds a master degree in Aerospace Engineering from University of Rome, La Sapienza, and he is graduated from the French Armaments Procurement Institute – at Ecole Militaire (Paris, France).
He is professor of Space Commercialisation at the Doctoral School of Bari Politechnic (Italy), lectures Space Entreprenuership at the LUISS Business School in Amsterdam, and he is co-founder and member of the board of directors of ECSECO, the European Centre for Sapce Economy and Commerce based in Vienna.