Francesco Pignatelli
Engineer
Joint Research Centre
Italy

Biography
Engineer with years of experience in the Space Industry in programme management, business planning and development roles of large scientific, commercial and training satellite systems, joined in 1999 the European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC). He supported the co-ordination of inter-institutional and space application activities, such as the Galileo and the GMES/Copernicus initiatives. He is now responsible for the European Union Location Framework (EULF), an action under the Interoperability Solutions for European Public Administrations (ISA) programme, based on the information infrastructures implemented through the INSPIRE Directive 2007/2/EC and the related legislation.