Magali Vaissière was Director of Telecommunications and Integrated Applications at the European Space Agency (ESA), from 2008[1] until 2020.

[2] She was responsible for the agency's programme of Advanced Research in Telecommunications System (ARTES).

Vaissière was also head of the European Centre for Space Applications and Telecommunications (ECSAT), located at Harwell, Oxfordshire.

After studying as an engineer at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Telecommunications de Paris (Telecom Paris Tech), she obtained a Master of Science from Stanford University.

[6] She also has an Executive MBA from the Centre de Perfectionnement aux Affaires.