Bio
Victoria Samson is the chief director of space security and stability for Secure World Foundation (SWF) and has more than 25 years of experience in military space and security issues. Before joining SWF, Victoria served as a senior analyst for the Center for Defense Information (CDI), where she leveraged her expertise in missile defence, nuclear reductions and space security issues to conduct in-depth analysis and media commentary. Prior to her time at CDI, Victoria was the senior policy associate at the Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers, a consortium of arms control groups in Washington, DC, where she worked with congressional staffers, members of the media, embassy officials, citizens and think tanks on issues related to national missile defence and nuclear weapons reductions. Before that, she was a researcher at Riverside Research Institute, where she worked on war-gaming scenarios for the Missile Defense Agency’s Directorate of Intelligence. She is also the head of the International Astronautical Federation’s Security Task Force and a member of the Committee on Space Security and the Space Security Working Group of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on International Security and Arms Control. She has a bachelor of arts degree in political science with a specialization in international relations from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a master of arts degree in international relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.