Wolfgang Duerr

Vice President & Head of Global Business Institutional Space, Airbus Defence and Space

Wolfgang Duerr is Vice President and Head of Global Business Institutional Space at Airbus Defence and Space, located in Bremen/Germany. He covers the Airbus Space Systems portfolio/business with focus on the European Space Agency (ESA), the European Union (EU), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and other Space Agencies around the globe.

He is a Director of the Board of the US based Space Foundation, Chairman of the Committee for Military Space at the German Aerospace Association (BDLI), and Member of the German Space Agency’s (DLR) Program Committee for Space Security.

He held several executive positions at Airbus Defence and Space and EADS Astrium, including an assignment as the Senior Advisor Space to Airbus North America.in Washington DC from 2015-2018. He represented Airbus in the Board of Directors of the German American Business Council (GABC) from 11/2015-12/2019 and was President of the Luxembourg based non-profit association Euro2Moon from 10/2021-03/2024.

Before joining EADS/Airbus in 2008, he served for more than 20 years in the German Air Force/ Luftwaffe in national and international operational, staff, and commanding assignments. He retired after a distinguished military career and is still an Officer of the Reserve Corps in the rank of Colonel (General Staff).

Wolfgang Duerr holds a degree (Dipl.Ing. FH) in Electrical Engineering from the University of the German Armed Forces Munich, and a Master of Military Operational Art and Science, from the Air University of the United States Air Force in Montgomery/AL, USA. He is a graduate from the Senior Leadership Course (SP12) of the Federal Academy for Security Policy (BAKS) in Berlin.