Jean-Charles Bigot

ESA representative in Japan (東京)

Tokyo, Japan

About

Experience

  • European Space Agency - ESA (33 yrs 7 mos)
    • ESA representative in Japan
      Sep 2025 - Present · 11 mos

    • administrator, international relations, DG's cabinet
      2000 - Present · 26 yrs 7 mos

      development of space cooperation (space science, telecom/navigation, launchers, earth observation, human space flights, exploration, space technology) with non-ESA Member States in the Asia-Pacific, Africa and Middle-east regions and with International Organizations (UN specialized agencies) ; secretary of the ESA International Relations Committee (2001-2004) ; coordination of EO international cooperation for global initiatives like the Charter, Sentinel Asia, CEOS, GEO.

    • earth observation satellite ground stations engineer
      1993 - 2000 · 7 yrs

      development and operation of Earth observation satellites national & foreign stations ; operation of UK-Processing & Archiving Facility ; development of ESA-EC-ASEAN cooperation activities in EO (South East Asia).

  • engineer at Cap Gemini Sogeti Group, France
    1989 - 1993 · 4 yrs

    engineering and technical assistance for Matra Group (ex. EADS) in space system and imagery, in particular development of radiometric and geometric sw corrections for export EO satellites ground stations; development of value added services using EO satellite data and GIS for Cap Gemini Innovation (research centre).

  • engineer at Spot Image Corp, D.C., USA
    1988 - 1989 · 1 yr

    junior engineer in charge of developing processing software systems for SPOT satellite data

  • ygt at Intelsat General Corporation, D.C., USA
    1987 - 1987 · Less than a year

    development of an orbit control software for telecommunication satellites (Intelsat V and V-A)

  • intern at Societe Europeenne de Propulsion, France
    1986 - 1986 · Less than a year

    development of a multi processing system for Spot data (EO satellite)