Miguel Manteiga Bautista

Miguel Manteiga Bautista is the Galileo Second Generation Project Manager, inside the Directorate of Navigation of the European Space Agency. 

Miguel Manteiga Bautista obtained his Bachelor and Master in Science degrees on Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Valencia in 1999.  

He also obtained in 2005 an International Executive Master on Business Administration from the IE Business School.  

After spending his early carrier in the field of development and deployment of high speed telecommunication networks in Telefonica SA, he moved to the ESA Galileo Team in 2001.  

Throughout the last 21 years, he has developed his career in the Galileo Programme, in a wide variety of positions covering all areas of the Galileo environment (space, ground, user, launcher, system, security and operations).  

In 2015, he took over the position of Head of GNSS/Galileo Evolution Programme and he was confirmed as Galileo Second Generation Project Manager in July 2020.  

He is responsible for the overall project-level implementation of G2G Phase CDE activities in close coordination with the European Commission and European GNSS Agency representatives.