Marco Tantardini is Head of Space Strategy and Business Development (S&BD) for Europe at Lockheed Martin.
From May 2021 to October 2022, he has been Space Policy Expert in the Italian Government, in the Prime Minister’s Office, and Advisor to the President of the inter-ministerial Committee for Space Policy (the Italian National Space Council).
He holds a degree in Aerospace Engineering from Politecnico di Milano and a master’s degree in Space Engineering from Delft University of Technology in Germany. At Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, he completed the Senior Executives in National and International Security (SENIS) executive programme at the Harvard Kennedy School.