Head of the Lunar Exploration Office at the European Space Agency (ESA), Bérengère Houdou is responsible for the development of European capabilities for lunar landing missions and manages the related technological, scientific and mission activities. She has worked as a system engineer on various projects for human and robotic spaceflight at ESA, covering technology development, in-flight demonstration and end-to-end mission design. She graduated from Supélec France in Electrical Engineering and holds a Master of Science from MIT in Aeronautics and Astronautics. ESA, while supporting Bérengère's participation, has no affiliation with the Google Lunar XPRIZE.