Franck is a French national who has been working for more than 33 years in ESA. With a legal background he has been supporting nearly all ESA programmes as a Contract Officer (Human Space, Launchers, Science, R&D, Navigation, Earth observation, Telecommunications..) and then with a management function and since 2022 Head of the Contracts Department Aside his nominal function, he is also the Chair of the ESA Adjudication Committee.