Space: The Next Tragedy of the Commons?

Harriet Brettle is Executive Director of the Keck Institute for Space Studies (KISS) at Caltech in Pasadena, California. Previously, she served as the Head of Market Analysis and Business Intelligence at the European Space Agency (ESA) and was a business analyst at Astroscale, working to develop a commercial solution to the threat of space debris.

Moriba Jah is a professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at The University of Texas at Austin. He came to UT Austin by way of the Air Force Research Laboratory and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory prior to that, where he was a Spacecraft Navigator on a handful of Mars missions.

Daniel is the Space Security Fellow at UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR). He focuses on political and legal issues surrounding space security and conducts research on the emergence of new technologies and approaches to strategic stability in outer space. Daniel’s areas of expertise include international space law and policy, emerging technology threats, and art history.

Regina Peldszus is a Space Security expert at the European External Action Service in Brussels. Previously, she was a senior policy officer with the German space agency, DLR Space Administration, where she lead the German delegation to the consortium of member states implementing EU Space Surveillance & Tracking.

As Publisher of SpaceWatch.Global, Torsten Kriening combines business acumen with academic and professional experience in space management, satellite communications, and broadcast technology. He has an electrical and telecommunications engineering background and studied information technology and computer science at the Technical College Berlin.