Elodie Viau

Elodie Viau joined ADS as Head of Space Systems Engineering from June 2023. For 3 years prior to this, Ms Viau worked for the European Space Agency – ESA as Director of Telecommunications and Integrated Applications. She led the development of ESA telecommunication ARTES programmes portfolio and the creation of 3 news programmes: EU Secure Connectivity Programme IRIS2, Moonlight and Civil Security from Space. From 2008 to 2020, Ms Viau worked for the satellite operator SES.

As Vice-President for Technology Program Management, she led new space segment development as well as end-to-end system design and implementation of new integrated services. Previously, she was the SES Program Manager of nine satellites built by Airbus. She gained two MSc: respectively from Telecom Sud Paris and from the International Space University complemented by an MBA from the Open University.