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Last updated: June 27, 2023 at 12:29 PM IST
Holly Maine of the United Kingdom will succeed Italy’s Simonetta Di Pippo. (Credits: Twitter/Aarti Holla-Maini)
Aarti Hula Maini brings to this position over 25 years of professional experience in the space sector including administrative and advocacy functions.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appointed Indian-born satellite expert Aarti Hola Maini as Director of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) in Vienna. Hula Maini of the United Kingdom will succeed Simonetta Di Pippo of Italy.
The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs promotes international cooperation in the peaceful use and exploration of space and in the use of space science and technology to achieve sustainable economic and social development. Hola Maine brings to this position more than 25 years of professional experience in the space sector including administrative and advocacy functions.
Most recently, she served as Executive Vice President of Sustainability, Policy, and Impact at NorthStar Earth & Space. A statement issued here on Monday said that she had previously spent more than 18 years as Secretary General of the World Association of Satellite Operators.
Hola Maine’s experience includes serving as a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Space Future Council; Member of the Advisory Group for the Evaluation of Space Sustainability administered by eSpace at the Cole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) Space Center; member of the Advisory Council of the Satellite Industry Association of India; Senior Space Policy Adviser for the Forum of Europe and as an Expert Advisor in Space Movement Management for EU Studies 2021-2023.
She was also one of the lead architects of the Crisis Communication Pact established in 2015 for emergency satellite communications with the United Nations World Food Programme’s Emergency Communications Group. Hola Maini holds a Bachelor of Laws degree with German Law from Kings College London, UK, and an MBA degree from HEC Paris, France.
She is also an International Space University graduate and speaks English, French, German and Punjabi and has a moderate knowledge of Dutch.
(This story was not edited by the News18 staff and was published from a syndicated news agency feed – PTI)
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