Nicolas Stassin

Nicolas Stassin is an active retired Belgian Air Force Major.

He is from 2023, Project Officer of the Defence in Space Forum and Project Officer Space Situational Awareness at the European Defence Agency in the Capability, Armament and Planning Directorate.

From 2018 to 2023, he served as Space Policy Officer in the Space Division of the European External Action Service (EEAS) in the field of Defence and Security. From 2021, he was Head of Sector of the Space Threat Response Architecture protecting the space components of the EU Space Programme.

From 2012 to 2018, he was the Project Officer in charge of the space capabilities development at the Belgian Defense Staff. He was also the Defense representative at the Belgian National Geographic Institute management board.

From 2007 to 2012, he was the operational manager and the Belgian ground segment commanding officer of the Helios2 multinational programme for military earth observation.

Previously to these postings, he was an intelligence officer already involved in space matters, in particular earth observation. He served at the Western European Union Satellite Centre.

Nicolas Stassin holds a Master in Aeronautical and Military Sciences from the Royal Military Academy (Brussels, Belgium) and a university certificate in Applied Geomatics from the Catholic University of Louvain (Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium).