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Aarti Holla Maini, an Indian-origin satellite industry expert, has been appointed by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres as Director of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs in Vienna. She belongs to the UK and will succeed Simonetta Di Pippo of Italy.
Aarti Holla Maini has 25 years of experience in the space sector. She has a bachelor’s degree in German Law from Kings College, London, UK, as well as a master’s degree in business administration from HEC Paris, France.
She is an alumna of the International Space University and can speak English, French, German and Punjabi.
Aarti Holla Maini was also one of the chief architects of the Crisis Connectivity Charter established in 2015 for emergency telecommunications via satellite with the UN World Food Program’s Emergency Telecommunications Cluster.
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