Johann-Dietrich Woerner
Director-General, European Space Agency
Johann-Dietrich Woerner is the Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA). Before joining ESA as Director General, Woerner was head of the German delegation to ESA from 2007 to 2015 and served as Chairman of the ESA Council from 2012 to 2014. He previously served as Chairman of the Executive Board of the German Aerospace Center (DLR).
Since the inception of satellites and human spaceflight, humanity has come to rely heavily on space, but in so doing, it has also produced particles of trash, which number in the hundreds of [...] More
