Really, Aude?

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Future Women interviews Aude Vignelles:

She later became the inaugural Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the Australian Space Agency (ASA) which launched in 2018 and saw its first astronaut complete training this year. That astronaut – Katherine Bennell-Pegg – was Vignelles’ first employee and is part of a shift in the gender balance in the space industry.

“When I set up the Chief Technology Office in Australia and the Australian Space Agency, all my recruits were women… And at some point, HR told me, you need to recruit men,” she says. “What a nice problem to have.”