Mr Kai Herrmann is the Director of the German National Competent PRS Authority within the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure. In particular he is responsible for the coordination of the intergovernmental spread security tasks as well as for the international cooperation and coordination. Prior to joining the Federal Government he was Ground Mission and Spacecraft controller at the Galileo Control Center and Mission Operator at the German Space Operation Centre (GSOC) in a military project. With graduating at the Free University of Berlin at the Institute for Space Sciences he has more then 11 years of experience in the space sector.