[Satellite Today – 3-17-08] Maurici Lucena, director general of CDTI (the Spanish Innovation Agency,), will chair the European Space Agency (ESA) Council for the next two years, ESA announced March 14.
    Lucena will take the reins from Per Tegnér of Sweden in July.
    Lucena was appointed director general of CDTI in 2004 and has served as head of the Spanish delegation to ESA.