Aude Vignelles served as the founding Chief Technology Officer of the Australian Space Agency, where she led the development and implementation of the technical roadmap, scoping and managing the agency’s space programs and delivering on domestic and international objectives. Prior to this, Aude was the Executive Manager of Satellite & Fixed Wireless Operations for Australia’s National Broadband Network. She had technical management roles in Australia with Foxtel and Austar, and later became Vice President of Technicolor, overseeing all programs in the APAC region. Aude moved into broadcasting in London where she successfully integrated the first digital terrestrial broadcast centre in the world (ONdigital). She began her career at the European Space Agency (ESA) in the Netherlands and managed test campaigns of scientific programs, including the Rosetta mission, and the X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission, ESA's largest scientific space program at the time.

Aude holds a degree in space and aeronautics engineering from ENSICA (now ISAE-SUPAERO) in Toulouse, and an MSc as a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.