Cybersecurity and Outer Space

Aaron Shull is the managing director and general counsel at CIGI. He is a senior legal executive and is recognized as a leading expert on complex issues at the intersection of public policy, emerging technology, cybersecurity, privacy and data protection.

Wesley Wark is a CIGI senior fellow.

Jessica West is a CIGI senior fellow and a senior researcher at Project Ploughshares, a Canadian peace and security research institute, where she focuses on technology, security and governance in outer space.

Timiebi Aganaba is an assistant professor of space and society in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University.

Almudena Azcárate Ortega is a researcher in the Space Security and Weapons of Mass Destruction programs at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research.

Laetitia Cesari is a consultant at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research.

Gregory Falco has been at the forefront of space system and critical infrastructure security in both industry and academia for the past decade. He is an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University’s Institute for Assured Autonomy and the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering.

Aya Iwamoto is the director of Japan space policy at Astroscale Japan.

Jordan Miller is a Ph.D. candidate at the Royal Military College of Canada and works in the defence and space industry.

Giulia Pavesi is finishing her Ph.D. in space law at the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, Institute for International Law, KU Leuven.

Rajeswari (Raji) Pillai Rajagopalan is the director of the Centre for Security, Strategy & Technology at the Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi.

Paul Samson is president of CIGI. He has 30 years of experience across a range of policy issues with partners from around the world. He is a former senior government official and also served for many years as co-chair of the principal G20 working group on the global economy.

Victoria Samson is the chief director of Space, Security and Stability for Secure World Foundation (SWF) and has over 25 years of experience in military space and security issues.

Tobby Simon is the president and founder of Synergia Foundation, an India-based think tank that works closely with academia, industry and government to establish impactful solutions in the areas of geoeconomics and geosecurity.

Cassandra Steer is Chair and founder of the Australian Centre for Space Governance, and concurrently Deputy Director of the Australian National University Institute for Space.

Quentin Verspieren is assistant professor in the Science, Technology, and Innovation Governance program at the University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Public Policy and associate research fellow at the European Space Policy Institute.

Yue Yuan is a Ph.D. candidate at China Foreign Affairs University and the Moscow State Institute of International Relations.