Adriano Baptista

Adriano Baptista is currently the Head of the Operations Division at the European Union Satellite Centre (EU SATCEN), an Agency of the Council of the European Union that provides geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) products and services to support the decision-making of the European Union including EU Crisis Management Operations.

Adriano Baptista joined the EU SATCEN in 1997 after 15 years of service as an officer in the Portuguese Air Force (POAF). He has a vast experience in the IMINT and GEOINT fields particularly for Defence and Security purposes with more than 20 years of experience in imagery analysis including 6 years’ experience as an Intelligence Officer.

He qualified as an Imagery Analyst at the Joint School of Photographic Interpretation (UK), and he holds several other diplomas and certificates in Imagery Analysis, Imagery Processing and Remote Sensing. He also has a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Certificate awarded by the University of West Florida (USA) and the High Level Course in Common Security and Defence Policy awarded by the European Security and Defence College (BE).