About the Contributors

Setsuko Aoki is a Professor of Law at Keio University Law School, Vice Director of the Center for Space Law at Keio University, and former Vice-President of the International Institute of Space Law.

Natália Archinard is Deputy Head of the Science, Transport and Space Section at the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland.

Mathieu Bataille is a Research Fellow and Lead on Security and Defence at the European Space Policy Institute in Vienna, Austria, addressing primarily the topics of security and defence from and in space.

Aaron Bateman is an Assistant Professor of history and international affairs at George Washington University and is a core faculty member of the Space Policy Institute.

Jairo Becerra is the Director of the Socio-Legal Research Center at the Catholic University of Colombia, member of the International Institute of Space Law (IISL), and Latino American Regional Organizer of the Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court Competition.

Olavo de O. Bittencourt Neto is a Professor of International Law at the Catholic University of Santos (Brazil), arbitrator for Space Related Disputes at the Permanent Court of Arbitration (CPA-PCA), and a member of the Board of the International Institute of Space Law (IISL).

P.J. Blount is a Lecturer in Law in the School of Law and Politics at Cardiff University. He serves as the Executive Secretary of the International Institute of Space Law.

Nickolas J. Boensch is a Program Manager at BryceTech.

Mariel Borowitz is an Associate Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology and head of the Nunn School Program on International Affairs, Science, and Technology.

Stephen Buono is Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago, where he is a Harper & Schimdt Fellow in the Society of Fellows. He was previously an Ernest May Fellow in History and Policy at Harvard University.

Tai Ming Cheung is a Professor in the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California San Diego and director of the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation.

Malcolm Davis is a Senior Analyst in Defence Strategy and Capability at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) in Canberra, Australia.

Raymond Duvall is the Morse-Alumni Professor of Political Science, Emeritus, at the University of Minnesota.

Davis Ellison is a Strategic Analyst at The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies and a PhD Candidate in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London.

Martin Elvis is an Astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Member of the Aspen Center for Physics, and is past-Chair of the Hubble Space Telescope Users’ Committee and of the High Energy Division of the American Astronomical Society.

Yasuhito Fukushima is a Senior Research Fellow at the National Institute for Defense Studies, Japan, and a previous visiting scholar at the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation.

Desislava Gancheva is a Policy Advisor at the Australian Space Agency and a graduate of the University of Adelaide Law School.

Šumit Ganguly is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and holds the Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations at Indiana University, Bloomington. In 2022–2023, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

Carl Graefe is a PhD Candidate at the University of Minnesota.

Laura Grego is a Senior Scientist and the Research Director in the Global Security Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists and a Visiting Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Nuclear Security and Policy.

Peter L. Hays is a Defense Contractor supporting the Space Staff in the Pentagon, an Adjunct Professor at the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University, and Space Chair at Marine Corps University.

Mark Hilborne is a Lecturer at King’s College London in the Defence Studies Department at the Joint Services Command and Staff College.

Tomas Hrozensky is a Senior Research Fellow and Lead on European Engagement at the European Space Policy Institute in Vienna, Austria, focusing extensively on policy issues in space safety and sustainability.

Hanbeom Jeong is a Professor at Korea National Defense University, serves as the president of the Korean Space Association for National Defense, and is a member of the Security Space Working Committee at the Korea National Space Council.

John J. Klein is a Senior Fellow and Strategist at Falcon Research, Inc., and Adjunct Professor at George Washington University’s Space Policy Institute, Georgetown University’s Strategic Studies Program, and the Institute of World Politics.

Alanna Krolikowski is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T).

Paul B. Larsen is a former Professor of Space Law (visiting and adjunct) Georgetown University Law Center and Southern Methodist University, and a Senior Legal Counsel for the US Government Interagency Committee on GPS.

Su-Mi Lee is an Associate Professor and the Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Hawai’i at Hilo and serves as a member of the Peaceful Unification Advisory Council of the Republic of Korea.

Pavel Luzin is a Visiting Scholar at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, and a Senior Fellow at the Jamestown Foundation.

Larry F. Martinez is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science at California State University, Long Beach, and serves as the International Institute of Space Law (IISL) observer to the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOUS).

James Clay Moltz is a Professor in the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School and former Dean of the Graduate School of International and Defense Studies.

Forrest E. Morgan is a Senior Lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University, a former Space Operator for the US Air Force, and a former Senior Political Scientist at RAND Corporation.

Samuel Oyewole is a Lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Federal University Oye-Ekiti, Nigeria.

Scott Pace is a Professor of the Practice of International Affairs and Director of the Space Policy Institute at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University.

Deganit Paikowsky is a Lecturer at the International Relations Department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Non-resident Scholar at the Space Policy Institute of George Washington University.

Prashanth Parameswaran is a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and Founder of the weekly ASEAN Wonk newsletter focused on foreign and security developments across Southeast Asian and the Indo-Pacific region.

Xavier Pasco is the Director of the Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique (FRS) and the European Editor of the international academic review Space Policy.

Saadia M. Pekkanen is the Job and Gertrud Tamaki Endowed Professor and the Founding Director of the Space Law, Data and Policy Program (SPACE LDP) at the University of Washington.

Kevin Pollpeter is a Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Naval Analyses.

Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan is the Director of the Centre for Security, Strategy and Technology (CSST) at the Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi. She is also a senior defense writer for The Diplomat and a former Technical Advisor to the United Nations Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) on the Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space (PAROS).

Michael Raska is an Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Military Transformations Programme at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

Nikola Schmidt is the Head of the Centre for Governance of Emerging Technologies and Senior Researcher at the Institute of International Relations in Prague, Czech Republic.

Sagee Geetha Sethu is an Assistant Professor of Law and the Program Head of Amity Law School at Amity University, Dubai.

Matthew Stubbs is a Professor at the University of Adelaide Law School and a core expert of the international research project to develop the Woomera Manual on the International Law of Military Space Activities and Operations.

Tim Sweijs is a Senior Research Fellow at the Netherlands’ War Studies Research Centre and the Director of Research at The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies.

Koji Tachibana is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Chiba University, Japan, and an International Associate Scholar at Georgetown University Medical Center.

Brad Townsend is a Senior Engineer with the Aerospace Corporation supporting the United States Space Force’s new Space Warfighting Analysis Center and a former Army Space Officer and Advisor on Space Policy and Strategy to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs.

Florian Vidal is a Research Fellow at the UiT The Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø. He is also an Associate Fellow at the LIED (Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Energies de Demain), Paris Cité University, and at the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI), France.

Wang Guoyu is an Associate Professor at the Law School of Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), Dean of the Academy of Air, Space Policy and Law of BIT, Deputy Director of China National Space Administration Space Law Center, and a Board Director of the Institute of International Space Law (IISL).

Jessica West is a Senior Researcher at the Canadian peace research institute Project Ploughshares, a Research Fellow at the Kindred Credit Union Centre for Peace Advancement, and a Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI). In her positions, she interacts regularly with key United Nations bodies tasked with space security and space safety issues.

Wendy N. Whitman Cobb is a Professor of Strategy and Security Studies at the US Air Force’s School of Advanced Air and Space Studies (SAASS).

James J. Wirtz is a Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California.

Xiaodan Wu is an Associate Professor of the Law Faculty, China Central University of Finance and Economics, and a researcher at the Institute of Defense Economics and Management, China Central University of Finance and Economics.

Zhou Bo is a Senior Fellow of the Center for International Security and Strategy, Tsinghua University, and China Forum expert. A Senior Colonel, ret., he was Director of the Center for Security Cooperation of Office for International Military Cooperation of the Ministry of National Defense of the People’s Republic of China.