Professor Carole Mundell is Director of Science at the European Space Agency and Head of the European Space Astronomy Centre, Madrid. An award-winning astrophysicist, innovator and science diplomat, Mundell served as the UK government’s first Chief International Science Envoy and was the first woman President of the UK Science Council. She holds Honorary Fellowships of the Institute of Physics and the British Science Association, won the 2023 Fred Hoyle Medal and Prize and was named FDM Everywoman in Technology Woman of the Year 2016.