The former vice prime minister is not only active in the private sector and in advisory positions, but he moreover retains at least one mandate in the country that directly relates to his former political tasks.
The LSAP politician thus becomes a member of the advisory council on space resources, a committee that he personally helped launch three years ago. Eight members in total are tasked with counselling the administration on which strategies to pursue in the domain.
The ministry of the economy emphasised that Etienne Schneider would fill this position voluntarily and without receiving pay. The CSV politician Jean-Louis Schiltz is another former minister on the advisory board.
The rest of the council is mostly made up out of foreign experts, the only exception being Georges Schmit, the former director of the San Francisco chamber of commerce. Another prominent member is Jean-Jacques Dordain, former director of the European Space Agency.
