SGC confirms speakers!
We are thrilled to confirm the following speakers for SGC:
- Ciro Arevalo: Dr. Ciro Arevalo Yepes is the current Chairman of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) as well as the advisor on space matters to the Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He has worked in the space sector for the past twenty years. He has law degree from Universite de Lausanne, Switzerland and postgraduate studies in international relations and international public law at the Universidad de los Andes. He is a member of Colombian Bar Association since 1985. Member of the Colombian delegation to various international entities including ITU, IAEA, UNTAT, ILO, CBTO etc. Dr. Arevalo Yepes was one of the main organizers of the Fourth Space Conference of the Americas held in Cartagena, Colombia in 2002, during which the Colombian Space Commission has originated. In addition to his diplomatic career, Dr. Arevalo Yepes has dedicated portion of his time to the academics. He was a Dean of the Post Graduate International Business Program at University of Bogotá, UJTL and a Founder and Director of the Centre of U.S. Studies, CEUS, Bogotá. He authored a number of papers and articles on Space related matters, Space and Society, and Space and Education.
- Ben Baseley-Walker: Ben Baseley-Walker is a Legal and Policy Consultant for Secure World Foundation. A British national, Ben works on legal and policy issues related to space security. He has worked in the policy and legal field in a variety of settings and countries including Chile, Kenya, Ethiopia and the Netherlands. From 2006 to 2007 Ben lived in Kenya working for theUnited Nations and the Kenyan Government. He is also currently the Co-Chair of the Vienna-based Space Generation Advisory Council. Ben is an alumnus of the University of Edinburgh and theUniversiteit van Amsterdam from which he graduated with a M.A. degree in Politics and an LLM degree in International and European Law respectively. He is a graduate of the International Space University Space Studies Programme (2007, Beijing).
- Ariane Cornell: Ariane is a French-American who grew up near San Francisco, California. Her interest in aerospace started at a young age: she earned her pilot’s license at the age of 17 and spent many of her early internships at NASA Ames Research Center. She attended Stanford University where she earned her Bachelor of Science with Honors in Science, Technology, and Society with a focus in Management Science and Engineering. Her undergraduate honors thesis was entitled, “Sino-American Relations in Space: Cooperation, Competition, or Coopetition?” Following her studies, Ariane worked in management consulting, first with Accenture based in San Francisco and then with Booz Allen Hamilton in Washington, DC. With Accenture, she lived and worked on IT projects in the Philippines, South Africa, Brazil, and the US. With Booz Allen Hamilton as a senior consultant in the Aerospace and Defense commercial consulting group, she helped develop strategies and solve operational issues for executives of the world’s top aerospace and defense companies. Currently, Ariane serves as the Executive Director of SGAC in Vienna, Austria.
- Agnieszka Lukaszczyk: A Polish/American national, Agnieszka is based in Vienna working on the European space policy and United Nations (UN) civil space activities covering the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) and working closely with the UN Office of Outer Space Affairs (OOSA). She has worked as the Executive Officer for the Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC) in support of the UN Programme on Space Applications since 2006, and is now SGAC Co-Chairperson. In addition, during the period of September 2006 to June 2008, Agnieszka worked at the European Space Policy Institute. Agnieszka also serves as the the Vice President - Operations for the World Space Week. She holds a Masters degree from the American University School of International Service in International Politics and a Bachelor degree in Political Science form the University of Tennessee. She also studied at the Universite Catholique de Louvain in Brussels, Belgium; the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland and the World Trade Institute in Berne, Switzerland. She gained professional experience at the Political Section of the Polish Embassy in Washington DC, American Electronics Association in Brussels, European Department of the Polish Senate in Warsaw and the Warsaw Business Journal.
- Prof. Dr. Berndt Feuerbacher: is President of the International Astronautic Federation since October 2008. He is a Research Scientist, former Director of the DLR Institute of Space Simulation and Professor of Space Physics at the University of Bochum, Germany. Berndt Feuerbacher received his PhD in Physics 1968 at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich. He was Research Scientist at the European Space Agency (ESA) in the European Space Laboratory (ESLAB, later Space Science Department of ESA) at ESTEC in Noordwijk, Holland. Since 1973 he was Deputy Head of the Astronomy Division of ESA. In 1981 he was appointed Chair of Space Physics, University of Bochum, and simultaneously Director of the Institute of Space Simulation at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Cologne. Berndt Feuerbacher advises ESA, NASA, and the German space agency DLR in various functions. He is active in learned societies like the European Physical Society, DGLR, COSPAR, ELGRA and others as Member, Board and Council Member. He was elected full member of IAA in 1986. He has been active in IAF as Committee member since 1982, served as IPC Co-Chairman in 2001 (Toulouse), 2002 (World Space Congress Houston), and 2003 (Bremen). He was elected Vice President of IAF in 2006 and serves the International Astronautical Federation as president since October 2008.
- Dr. Robert (Bob) Richards: is the Founder and CEO of Odyssey Moon Limited, a commercial lunar enterprise based in the Isle of Man and the first official registrant in the $30M Google Lunar X PRIZE competition. He is also the Director of Space Technology at Optech Incorporated of Canada, where he presided over the first commercial lidar scanner flown in space as well as the meteorological lidar flown to Mars aboard the NASA Phoenix Lander. Bob studied aerospace and industrial engineering at Ryerson University; physics and astronomy at the University of Toronto; and space science at Cornell University where he became special assistant to Carl Sagan. In 1987 with Peter Diamandis and Todd Hawley Bob founded the International Space University (ISU), as well as Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS), which continues today as the largest student run space organization in the world, and the Space Generation Foundation, whose youth outreach programs today include Yuri's Night and the Space Generation Congress, with UN Observer Status and space policy activities through its sister organization, the Space Generation Advisory Council. In 2005 Bob received a Doctorate of Space Achievement (honoris causa) from the International Space University for “distinguished accomplishments in support of humanity’s exploration and use of space.”
- James “Jim” Zimmerman: is President of International Space Services, Inc. which he founded in 1997. He also serves as Past President of the International Astronautical Federation (IAF), President of which he was from 2004 till 2008. Jim has more than 35 years of international space and science program and international cooperation experience. He is particularly familiar with space program and policy developments in the United States and in Europe where he served as NASA’s European Representative for twelve years. Jim Zimmerman is a Fellow in the American Astronautical Society and an Associate Fellow in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics where he also served as Vice President - International. He also served as rapporteur of Approaches to Future Space Cooperation and Competition in a Globalizing World, a report published in 2009 by the U.S. National Research Council. Zimmerman received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Beloit College and a Master of Arts degree from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, both in the USA. He also studied at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and at universities in Finland, Austria and Italy. Zimmerman was twice awarded NASA's Exceptional Service Medal, European Space Agency's International Space Station Award and the German Space Agency's International Cooperation Award, as well as the American Astronautical Society’s Award for the Advancement of International Cooperation.
- Ray A. Williamson: has served as Executive Director of the Secure World Foundation since June 2007. Previously, he was Research Professor of Space Policy and International Affairs in the Space Policy Institute, The George Washington University. He is editor of Imaging Notes, a magazine of space technology for human and environmental security. He is also a member of the International Academy of Astronautics, serving on Commission Five: Space Policies, Law & Economics, and a member of the editorial board of the Space Policy Journal. Dr. Williamson is the author or editor of nine books on space policy, historic preservation and the astronomical knowledge and ritual of the American Indian. He has also authored more than 100 articles on space policy. Between 2002 and 2005, he served on the NOAA Advisory Committee on Commercial Remote Sensing (ACCRES). Dr. Williamson received his B.A. in physics from the Johns Hopkins University and his Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of Maryland.
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