Luca Vincenzo Maria Salamone (PhD) is a public manager and currently holds the position of General Director of the Italian Space Agency (ASI).

Former senior Officer in the Armed Forces, he graduated in law and political sciences, he is lawyer-qualified and specialized in public administrations sciences. He also holds a master’s degree in « Economics lawyer and Public Manager » and in « International Studies ». He is the winner of a scholarship promoted by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers-National School of Administration, for the Executive Master in « Management of Public Administrations » at the School of Management in Bocconi University of Milan. He is also a Ph.D in public-law at Tor Vergata University of Rome and collaborates with several scientific journals for which he is the author of many publications. He recently achieved the Senior Strategic Certificate from the European security and Defence College.

He has held several positions at central and peripheral public entities, the latter as Coordinator of Maritime Policies Strutture at Presidency of the Council of Ministers, where he led the operation for the approval of the first national strategic « Sea Plan », edition 2023.

Previously he was enrollend in managerial roles at the Secretariat General of Defence and National Armaments Directorate, dealing mainly with military procurement by providing legal support as a national interface in the context of the Letter of Intent (LoI) international meetings, at Export Control (EC), at the European Defense Agency (EDA) and for the negotiations of international programs, intergovernmental agreements and non-governmental technical arrangements for armaments programs. He especially dealt with North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) agreements or other international agreements on both defense equipments and aerospace (including Sicral II, Athena-Fidus and dual-use Earth observation radar satellites COSMO Sky-Med).

At the General Secretariat of Defense and National Armaments Directorate, he also held the position of Deputy Director and Director in a vacant position for research and technological innovation. In these assignment he has also been appointed as a national representative in the European Technology Acquisition Program (ETAP) Steering Committee, and as the main Italian representative at the NATO Science & Technology Organization (STO) in the Knowledge and Information Management Committee (KIMC). As part of the aforementioned assignments, he also oversaw cooperation activities for technological innovation with NATO countries, as well as with other nations and major Italian university organizations, also ensuring the conclusion of cooperation agreements with EU, not-EU and NATO Nations in the defense and aerospace sectors.

He previously served, under the Armed Forces, as Chief of legal disputes and judicial police service, as well as legal advisor and Head of International Law Office at navy headquarter. Between 2006 and 2007 he also served as Head of the Marine District of « Pelagie » Isles and Commander of the Italian Coast Guard in Lampedusa, dealing mainly with emergency management and illegal immigration.

During these professional assignments, in addition to the management and coordination of civilian and military personnel in service at complex organizations, he managed numerous emergencies as well, being engaged in legal counseling, with particular reference to the areas of administrative, european and international law, as well as judicial police activities with regard to the prevention and repression of crimes and administrative offences against the Penal Code and special laws.

During his academic studies, he also deepened his knowledge in technical issues (i.e. TLC technology systems, safety standards, management of technology systems for search and rescue operations, navigation security, dangerous goods transport, IT, and more).

He has been a lecturer in international law, maritime administrative law, judicial police and naval law at the Naval Academy in Livorno and a professor on contract of a public management course at the Superior School at the University of Catania and at numerous institutes for graduate and post-graduate education.

During his career, he was recruited at the Offices of Cabinet for direct collaboration with the Minister of the Economic Development, the Minister of Infrastructures and Transports, the Minister of the Environment, the Protection of the Territory and the Sea and, last, the Minister of Defence. During the aforementioned assignments, he has dealt with a variety of issues and has also contributed to the drafting of several legislative measures, as well as the definition of some particularly important legislative acts, relatively to the part of interest of the respective Ministries.

He also followed parliamentary works on numerous legislative measures, as well as the works of implementation of several European directives. He also assisted the various Heads of both Cabinet and Legislative Office in the management of activities related to the drafting of normative measures of wide and delicate scope for the respective Ministries, as well as in the setting up of initial activities for both preparatory meetings of the Council of Ministers and the preparation of acts of « high administration ».

Since 2006 he has been a member of the Rome Committee of the Italian Maritime Law Association and, since 2007, of the Italian Maritime Law Association itself. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the journal « The Administrative Law » and a navigation law associated member at Tor Vergata University of Rome, where he has also been professor on contract. He is a member of « Bocconi Alumni Association » as well.

He is passionate about new technologies and he is publisher and manager of the website www.lucasalamone.it.

Last, he was awarded the title of Knight of the Order « To the Merit of the Italian Republic » for the merits gained in the fulfilment of his duties.