Stéphane Israël (born 3 January 1971) is a senior French civil servant. He was a magistrate at the

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, chief of staff at the French Minister of Economics,

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, a subsidiary of

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. He was appointed CEO of

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in 2013.

Early life and education

Stéphane Israël is the son of a law professor and a psychoanalyst. He attended the

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and the

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(both in Paris). There he published a school newspaper entitled ''Le Même et l'Autre''. As an admirer of

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, he was active in his youth in the

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association. From 1994 to 1995 he was a teaching assistant at

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in the

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. He entered the

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in 1991 where he studied

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. He graduated with a

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, which corresponds to a master's degree. He also graduated from the

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Career

In 2001 Israël was appointed to the French Court of Auditors, where he was assigned to the 2nd Chamber, responsible for national defense, space travel and industry. There he mainly dealt with French space policy. From 2005 to 2007 he was an associate professor at the École normal supérieure. Israël is author of several historical works. In 1994 he wrote a text about the historian

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in ''Les Facs sous Vichy''. Among his texts is a book from 2005 about the students of the École normal supérieure during the Second World War. In 2007 he began his career in the aerospace industry as a consultant to

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, then CEO of

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. He spent four years as EADS subsidiary Astrium, where he participated in the intercontinental ballistic missile nprogramms M51. From 2010 to 2012 he was head of the European Earth observation program

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. From May 2012, Stéphane Israël headed the cabinet of the French Minister for Economic Affairs,

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led to a dispute between Israël and Montebourg. As a result, the minister is said to have separated from his colleague. This was publicly denied. Following the appointment of

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, the previous CEO of

, as President of the French space agency

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, Stéphane Israël was announced as his successor. On April 18, 2013, the Arianespace Board of Directors unanimously named him CEO. At the same time, he was named CEO of

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, a Euro-Russian company that launched the

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launcher from the

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replaced him as Chief of Staff of Arnaud Montebourg. After the restructuring of Arianespace in April 2017, he also became Executive Vice President of

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, where he is responsible for all civil launchers.

References

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