Interim CEO of UK Space Agency appointed

Above: Dr David Parker.
Dr David Williams, the outgoing Chief Executive of the UK Space Agency, will be leaving in late November to take up his new appointment as Group Executive, Information Sciences at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Sydney, Australia.
Dr Parker will take up the position of acting Chief Executive on 23 November 2012, and will hold the position until a new, full time CEO is appointed and starts working for the Agency.