Galileo program governance: New chair of GSA Administrative Board named

By GPS World StaffPublished June 29, 2016

Jean-Yves Le Gall (Photo: Liberation)

Jean-Yves Le Gall (Photo: Liberation)

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Jean-Yves Le Gall (Photo: Liberation)

Meeting on Thursday, June 23, at its headquarters in Prague, the Administrative Board of the European Global Navigation Satellite Systems Agency (GSA) elected its new chair: Jean-Yves Le Gall, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES, the French space agency) president and France’s interministerial coordinator for European satellite navigation programmes.

Le Gall succeeds Sabine Dannelke, German federal minister of Transport and Digital Infrastructures.

Headquartered in Prague, GSA is in charge of managing operations of satellite navigation systems on behalf of the European Union since 2014 for the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) and from 2017 for…

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