E-Geos, here are appointments and controversies in the Asi house
Spatial appointments tour. renewed the board of directors of e-Geos, a company owned by Telespazio and Asi. Here are facts, rumors, names and controversies.
A first waltz round of space appointments has ended.
On June 8, the shareholders' meeting of e-Geos Spa, a company established in 2000 by Telespazio (80%) and the Italian Space Agency (20%), appointed the members of the Board of Directors for the three-year period 2021/2023 .
The new board is made up of Maria Fabrizia Buongiorno, Sabrina Corpino, Letizia Colucci, Giuseppe Aurilio and Paolo Minciacchi.
Following the shareholders' meeting, the board of directors then appointed the director Buongiorno as the new chairman and confirmed the director Minciacchi as the company's CEO.
But "in the Italian Space Agency (ASI) there is a controversy over e-Geos, SpaceLab and Altec appointments launched without a ban", Alessandro Da Rold wrote a few days ago in La Verità .
In fact, ASI is entitled to "the choice of the president and a director of the eGeos Board of Directors", said the president of ASI Giorgio Saccoccia in an interview with Formiche.net .
Again without notice, last April the president of ASI had already confirmed Fabrizio Tosone in the role of general manager of the agency.
All the details.
THE APPOINTMENTS OF E-GEOS ON THE PROPOSAL OF THE ITALIAN SPACE AGENCY
“The appointment, on the proposal of ASI, of Maria Fabrizia Buongiorno and Sabrina Corpino represent a good sign for the professionalization of female figures in space. I am sure that the experience gained at national and international level by Dr. Fabrizia Buongiorno in the field of Earth observation and the expertise in aerospace systems of Prof. Sabrina Corpino will represent a precious added value for the future of e-Geos. ”Declared the president of Asi Saccoccia.
The new president of e-Geos Buongiorno is "very close to Saccoccia", La Verità had underlined.
THE CV OF MARIA FABRIZIA BUONGIORNO FROM THE ASI SITE
Maria Fabrizia Buongiorno boasts more than thirty years of professional experience in the field of Earth observation, environmental monitoring and remote sensing applied to the field of natural disasters. Graduated in Geological Sciences at the La Sapienza University of Rome in 1988, she immediately joined Telespazio in the Environmental Remote Sensing Division. Since 1992 he has been working at the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (Ingv) where, from 2003 to 2014, he coordinated the remote sensing activities at national level. He contributed to the development of the Copernicus system by participating in the Italian steering committee of GMES coordinated by the Ministry of Scientific Research and the Ministry of the Environment. During his career he has carried out important scientific research projects at an international level. Today he holds the position of director of technological research at Ingv. And he is coordinator of the Earth Space Observation Center of Ingv.
ASI GM CONFIRMED WITH INTERNAL CALL
Finally, again without notice, the ASI has also appointed the general manager.
As told on Start , "after a year of publication, the call for the new director general of the ASI was revoked by the board of the Agency without assignment of the post" last November. After the deadline for sending applications – despite the fact that there were three candidates – the position of new general manager had not been assigned to anyone.
Therefore , on March 29, the Agency's board of directors approved the appointment of Fabrizio Tosone (former managing director) as director general of the agency.
The president of ASI preferred to proceed with an internal call only. He therefore chose the acting Tosone without a selection on a national scale as for the National Research Council (Cnr), some insiders point out.
In fact, we recall that on 12 April, the Minister of University and Research, Maria Cristina Messa , appointed Maria Chiara Carrozza as president of the CNR. Appointed after a public announcement, the normal practice for holding this type of office.
As Da Rold commented in La Verità , "what is perplexing in the environment is whether Draghi, owner by law of the coordination of the Space, or at least the minister Cristina Messa, given that his ministry Mur is the ASI vigilante, have shared these methods of managing the agency ".
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/e-geos-ecco-nomine-e-polemiche-in-casa-asi/ on Sun, 13 Jun 2021 06:59:59 +0000.