M. Sabathier has more than twenty years of experience in international aerospace and telecommunications. He is a Senior Associate with the Technology and Public Policy Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, CSIS, in Washington DC, and Associate Fellow of AIAA.
Mr. Sabathier has served in many roles in the field of aerospace, with the French Ministry of Defense, CNES, where he was actively involved in the development of the Hermes space plane and the Ariane 5 launch vehicle. Arianespace selected him to negotiate production contracts for Ariane launchers and later appointed him program manager for follow-on projects they financed.
