Marc Leroy

Background

About Marc Leroy

Marc Leroy establishes the individual company Space4Dev in January 2019, whose goal is to support joint European – African projects of public and private actors in the field of space applications. His main Customer in 2019 has been the Pixstart company which provides services of urban, agricultural and forest monitoring using satellite imagery. This move is relying on 34 years of experience as an engineer in Cnes, the French Space Agency, from 1985 to 2018. From 2001 onwards, he devotes himself to the direction of multi-partner projects of development of geoinformation services using space data at national, european and african levels. From 2001 to 2008, he leads in the public interest group Medias-France the precursor project of the French Land data center Theia. He also coordinates there the European project Geoland, precursor of the Copernicus Land satellite service of the European Union. From 2009 to 2011, he is detached in Ird, which missions him at the African Union Commission in Addis Ababa as technical director of the AMESD project (African Monitoring of Environment for Sustainable Development using space data). He comes back to Cnes in 2012 to become technical director of Theia, and becomes in 2016 expert on space applications, with the mandate to promote the use of space technologies at international level, in particular in Africa. From 1985 to he works at Cnes and Cesbio as an academic researcher and as an engineer on problems of physics of the measurement of the optical signal of satellites of Earth Observation. From 1980 to 1984, he is a Researcher in plasma physics on the structure of the Earth's bow shock, both at the University of Maryland and at Observatoire de Paris. Marc Leroy is a former student of Ecole Normale Supérieure (St-Cloud) in Physics, and obtains a PHD at Paris VII University in 1980 in the field of radiatively driven stellar winds.