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NATO SPACE COE is driven by a Steering Committee gathering one representative by member state and the NATO SPACE COE Director.
Sylvain DEBARRE
COL (OF-5), FRA – NATO Space COE Director
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Biography
- Married and father of two children, Colonel Sylvain DEBARRE was born on 1st of April 1980.
- He joined the French Air Force the 29th of August 2001 at the French Air Force Academy in Salon de Provence Air Force Base (AFB), as an engineer officer cadet.
- In 2004, he was assigned to Cambrai Air Force Base, where he was in charge of the management of a Mirage 2000 fleet, especially within the Fighter Squadron 02.012 «Picardie». He participated in numerous international exercises as Mirage 2000 technical manager in Scotland, Brazil, Italy, the United Arab Emirates, and was deployed in 2007 to Siauliai in Lithuania as part of the Baltic States Air Police Operation “Balto”.
- In 2009, he was selected to join the famous aerospace institute SUPAERO in Toulouse, where he studied engineering for two years, with a specialization in aerospace propulsion systems.
- In 2011, he was assigned to the French Air Force Academy as a professor of Propulsion, Thermodynamics and Flight Mechanics for the benefit of the French Air Force cadets. He then became head of the Aerospace Vehicles Department, and in 2016 he became Deputy Commander of the Academic Division of the French Air Force Academy.
- In 2017, he joined the Strategic Air Command and the Boeing K/C135 Maintenance Squadron in Istres Air Force Base. He was then engaged in multiple deployments, in Chad (Operation “Barkhane”), then in the United Arab Emirates (Operation “Chammal”), as K/ C135 technical manager.
- Laureate of the War College the same year, he became Deputy Commander of the K/C135 Maintenance Squadron in 2018, and took over the Command in 2019.
- Between 2021 and 2023, he completed his Command and Staff College Course in Germany, within the German War College at the Führungsakademie der Bundeswehr, in Hamburg.
- Promoted to Colonel, he became the Director of the NATO Space Centre of Excellence on 21 August 2023.
Colonel Sylvain DEBARRE is a Knight in the National Order of Merit, holder of the Silver Medal of the National Defense and the medal of Protection of the Territory.