Jean-Marc Piéplu

Jean-Marc Piéplu has been an active contributor to the development of the European GNSS programmes since 1994. He took up his current position at the GSA, now EUSPA, in May 2012. Prior to this, Jean-Marc Piéplu was the Galileo Project Officer at the European Commission between 2009 and 2012, in charge of the Galileo IOV and FOC deployment phase activities. Before that, he worked as GSA Head of System Implementation between 2007 and 2009.  

He previously worked at the European Space Agency and at Thales Alenia Space France, in charge of early Galileo mission analyses, of EGNOS performance & algorithms engineering, of the EGNOS Central Processing Facility design and development, of Galileo system engineering (at Galileo Industries in Rome) and of the Galileo Ground Mission Segment design and development. 

Jean-Marc Piéplu graduated in 1989 from ISAE/Sup’Aéro (Aeronautics & Space Engineering diploma) in Toulouse, France and holds a MBA from IAE Toulouse, France.

Head of EGNOS Exploitation Department