Prof. Dr. Kai-Uwe Schrogl is Special Advisor for Political Affairs at the European Space Agency ESA (Headquarters in Paris). From 2019, he was seconded to the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy in Berlin to support the German Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the second half of 2020 and the Presidency Trio until the end of 2021. Up to 2019, he was the Chief Strategy Officer of ESA (Headquarters in Paris, France). From 2007 to 2011 he was the Director of the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI) in Vienna, Austria, the leading European think tank for space policy. Prior to this, he was the Head of the Corporate Development and External Relations Department in the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Cologne, Germany. Previously he also worked with the German Federal Ministry for Post and Telecommunications and the German Space Agency (DARA) in Bonn, Germany.

He has been a delegate to numerous international bodies and forums and has served from 2014 to 2016 as chair of the Legal Subcommittee of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, the highest body for space law making, comprising 73 Member States. He also was chair of various European and global committees (ESA International Relations Committee; European Coordination Committee for the International Space Station Intergovernmental Agreement; two plenary working groups of the UNCOPUOS Legal Subcommittee, the one on the launching State and the other on the registration practice, both leading to UN General Assembly Resolutions). He presented, respectively testified, at hearings of the European Parliament and the U.S. House of Representatives.

Kai-Uwe Schrogl is the President of the International Institute of Space Law, the professional association of space law experts from almost 50 countries, Member of the International Academy of Astronautics (recently chairing its Commission on policy, economics and regulations) , the Russian Academy for Cosmonautics and Corresponding Member of the French Air and Space Academy, the International Law Association, as well as Member in academic space law and policy related institutions in China, India, Japan, the Netherlands, Russia, and the UK. He is also the incoming Co-Chair of the Global Future Council on Space of the World Economic Forum.

Kai-Uwe Schrogl has written or co-edited 20 books and more than 140 articles, reports and papers in the fields of space policy and law as well as telecommunications policy, most recently the Handbook of Space Security in two volumes (at Springer) and A Research Agenda for Space Policy (at Edward Elgar). He sits on editorial boards of various international journals in the field of space policy and law (Space Policy, Zeitschrift für Luft- und Weltraumrecht, Studies in Space Law/Nijhoff; previously also Acta Astronautica). Kai-Uwe Schrogl holds a doctorate degree in political science and lectures international relations as an Honorary Professor at Tübingen University, Germany.

Emeritus Professor of Public Law in the French Universities, he taught International Public Law, especially Space Law and Law of the Sea at the Universities of Western Brittany and Paris XI. He taught in other French and foreign universities on many occasions, published books and articles on European and International Law especially Space Law and Law of the Sea.

He advises for Space Law International Organisations, Governments and Companies. He is the Vice chairman of the European Centre for Space Law of the European Space Agency (ECSL/ESA), the President of the Association for the Development of Space Law in France, the Chairman of the Institute of Law of International Spaces and Telecommunications (Brittany); a former member of the board of Directors of the International Institute of Space Law, a Member of the Space Law Committee of the International Law Association (ILA) and a member of the Société francaise de droit aérien et spatial (SFDAS). He is a member of the International Academy of Astronautics and a corresponding member of the Académie de l'Air et de l'Espace.

Dr Maria Pozza is the Director and principal lawyer of Gravity Lawyers, a law firm in New Zealand that provides specialist legal advisory services in space law. Gravity Lawyers also provides advice on cyber security, IT, Data, UAV’s and risk assessment. Dr Maria has been appointed as the Director of the Otago Foreign Policy School, and sits as a committee member of the National Security School. She is the Springer’s Series Editor in Space Law and Policy; the most recent publication was on Risk Management in Outer Space Activities: An Australian and New Zealand Perspective. Her most recent award was in late 2021 from AI Global as the Most Influential Women in Aerospace law 2021.”

Prof. Yun ZHAO is Henry Cheng Professor in International Law and Head of Department of Law at the University of Hong Kong (HKU); PhD (Erasmus University Rotterdam); LLM (Leiden University); LLM & LLB (China University of Political Science and Law). Prof. Zhao is currently the Representative of Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP) of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH); Standing Council Member of Chinese Society of International Law and Council Member of Chinese Law Society; Chair Professor at Xiamen University (2020-2023). He is listed as arbitrator in several international arbitration commissions. He has published widely on various topics including particularly Dispute Resolution and Space Law.

Prof K R Sridhara Murthi is the Director of Academics and Planning at JAIN Deemed-to-be University, Bangalore and an honorary Director of International Institute of Space Law. Prof Murthi made rich contributions to Indian Space Programme for over three decades in the fields of Space Policy, International Relations, and expanding India’s commercial space activities. He had been a Vice President of the International Institute of Space Law and served earlier in the Boards of International Astronautical Federation and International Academy of Astronautics. He contributed to the Study Groups set up by the International Academy of Astronautics on ‘Space Traffic Management’ and ‘Global Perspectives on Regional Cooperation in Space: Policies, Governance & Legal Tools’. He has over 60 publications in national and international Journals.