All in Missiles
Morena follows through with her ideas. When she was three years old this funny, lively woman - feminine to the tips of her varnished nails – who is today the Secretary General of the European defense group MBDA, announced to her family that she would be an aerospace engineer or an astronaut when she grew up. “I don’t know where I got this idea from because my parents weren’t in this sector at all. I guess I was just born like that,” she laughs…
Like all the interviews I've done since Covid-19 induced lockdown, this one with Christine was done by social media video link. We almost had tea together as at one point a disembodied arm appeared and provided her with a cup of tea. The arm belonged to her husband! So over this cup of tea she told me how she'd progressed from being an undergraduate apprentice with British Aerospace Army Weapons in 1981 to becoming the international Head of Functional Capability and Skills in the Engineering Directorate of MBDA…
It's been 35 years since engineer, rock-climber and musician Helen started working for British Aerospace but she still seems as excited by her job as she was as a young mathematics and physics graduate from Bristol University in 1985…
Women senior executives in defence industries are rare, but even more exceptional in missiles, generally seen as “toys for boys.” But there are a few exceptions and Eva, with her passion for technology and her mathematical brain, is one of them…
Véronique is one of the very few senior women executives in the male-dominated world of missiles. But she has hit the proverbial glass ceiling. The head of defence systems business development of the European missile manufacturer MBDA, she notes that she's “been at the same hierarchical level for almost 20 years,” and regrets that no woman is on the executive committee…
