Luca del Monte

Luca del Monte is a senior executive at ESA with strong background in industrial policy making, strategy development and deep tech. After several years in space industry and institutions 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 investor’s community. He holds a master’s degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Rome, La Sapienza, and he is graduated from the French Armaments Procurement Institute – Ecole Militaire (Paris, France). He is professor of Space Commercialisation at the Doctoral School of Bari Polytechnic (Italy), teaches Space Entrepreneurship at the LUISS Business School in Amsterdam, and he is co-founder of ECSECO, the European Centre for Space Economy and Commerce based in Vienna.