Alex Chunet works at the European Space Agency (ESA) and his role focuses on supporting development and climate finance institutions in leveraging Earth Observation technologies globally as well as implementing strategic international space partnerships such as the Africa-EU Space Partnership Programme. He was the ESA representative to the World Bank (WB) from 2021 to 2024 and coordinated activities aimed at supporting development finance projects in the integration of space technologies, in particular through the ESA Global Development Assistance programme. He also worked for the World Bank from 2017 to 2020 as a geospatial data scientist and at the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) between 2020 and 2021, a time during which he led the development of the first geospatial strategy of the institution. He holds a Master of Science from the London School of Economics, a Masters in Public Management from Sciences Po Paris, and has completed trainings from the MIT, the French Space Agency, and EUMETSAT in Data Science and Earth Observation technologies.