Leïla Ajjabou is a Market and Innovation Officer at the European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA), where she leads market development for the Insurance, Finance, and Raw Materials sectors. Her work focuses on commercialising the Copernicus and Galileo programmes and supporting space start-ups through the CASSINI initiative. Leïla holds an MSc in Mining Geosciences from the École Nationale Supérieure de Géologie, and her career has spanned business development and EU research and Innovation before moving into space applications.