An "aviator" in the "Industry Market" department of the Defense Agency

(B2) Arturo Alfonso-Meiriño is due to take up the post of "Industry and Market" director at the European Defense Agency at the beginning of January. He was until now number 2 in this direction alongside Ulf Hammarström, whom he will now replace. It is an aeronautical specialist who arrives at this post.

One of the A400M negotiators. Born in 1955, he graduated from the Spanish Military Air Academy in 1977 and also graduated in Economics from the University of Madrid in 1982. In addition to his various functions in the Spanish Air Force, he has been involved in several international programs defense cooperation. Liaison officer at the Us-Navy in Philadelphia, he ensures the financial and logistical management of the Spanish Hornet EF-18 program. In 1992, he was appointed to the NATO agency responsible for managing the Eurofighter and Typhoon program (Netma) in Munich, as financial specialist for the Typhoon EF-2000 program. In 2000, he moved to Toulouse at the Interim International Program Office responsible for negotiating the development, production and initial logistics support contract with Airbus Industry for the construction of the future A400M military aircraft, then transferred to Occar where he is responsible for the commercial aspects and deputy director.

The "Industry and Market" directorate at the European Defense Agency - based in Brussels - is rather strategic because it works to create a European defense equipment market mainly through an intergovernmental public procurement regime and it supports the restructuring and strengthening of what is called the  European defense industrial and technological base.

(NGV)