Dr. Sang-Ryool LEE is President of Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), a government-funded research institute responsible for the development of aerospace technology in the Republic of Korea. He has been President of KARI since March 2021. Prior to his appointment, he was Director of the Lunar Exploration Program Office where he led the development of…

Before being appointed as President of the Canadian Space Agency, Lisa Campbell was Associate Deputy Minister, Veterans Affairs Canada, supporting the well-being of veterans and their families and promoting recognition of those who served Canada.

Christian Davenport is a staff writer at The Washington Post covering space for the Financial desk. He joined The Post in 2000, and was on a team that won the Peabody award in 2010 for its work on veterans with Traumatic Brain Injury and has been on reporting teams that were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize three times.

Laetitia Garriott de Cayeux is a technology entrepreneur and investor. She is the Founder/CEO of Global Space Ventures. She serves on NATO Maritime Unmanned Systems Innovation Advisory Board; on the board of directors of XPRIZE, which launched on Earth Day the $100M Carbon Removal XPRIZE with Elon Musk; on the board of the National Museum of Mathematics; and as a security fellow of the Truman National Security Project and advisory board member of the Truman Center.

Chris Kunstadter is Global Head of Space at AXA XL, a leading international insurance provider. He manages the space underwriting team and is actively involved in all aspects of AXA XL’s space activity, including technical, financial, and actuarial analysis, coverage design, claims handling, industry outreach, and business development.

Dr. Robert W. Corell is a Principal and Director of the Global Environment Technology Foundation and Leads the GETF’s Center for Global Science and Innovation (US). He is the Co-Founder and Director of the The Rising Seas Institute (US) and is a Board of Trustees Member, Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (Bermuda). He has several academic appointments, including an Adjunct Professorship at the University of Miami’s Department of Ocean Sciences and Professorship at the University of the Arctic and its Institute of Circumpolar Reindeer Husbandry (Norway). He recently held the Arctic Chair at the University of Tromsø, Norway. He was a Council Member of the Global Energy Assessment (GEA) and Lead Author of GEA’s Chapter 3 on Environment and Energy. He led the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (2005). In 2021 he was awarded the 2021 U.S. Water Leader Award by the U.S, Water Partnership. In 2019, he received the High North Hero Award by the High North Center for Business and Governance, Nord University (Norway). In 2018, he gave the Maniac Space Lecture at NASA, titled: Science Goes Global (https://earth.gsfc.nasa.gov/maniac/corell). In 2013, chaired and was the lead author of the 2013 UNEP Yearbook on “The View from the Top Searching for Responses to a Rapidly Changing Arctic” and more recently, was the Co-Chair of the 2016 UNEP’s GEO-6 North American Regional Assessment. He was recognized with the other scientists for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessments. In 2010, Dr. Corell was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Veterinarian Medicine by the Norges Veterinærhøgskole (Norwegian School of Veterinarian Science) and a 2008 Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Alaska, Anchorage. In 2017, Case Western Reserve University Case Alumni Association awarded him the Gold Medal Award for lifetime achievements. A circular mountain region Antarctica was named the “Corell Cirque” by Board on Geographical Names (79°54′00″S, 155°57′00″E).

Victoria Samson is the Washington Office Director for Secure World Foundation

Sherri Goodman is an experienced leader and senior executive, lawyer and director in the fields of national security, climate change, energy, science, oceans and environment. Goodman is Secretary General of the International Military Council on Climate & Security, the global forum for military leaders and security professionals dedicated to addressing the security risks of a changing climate. She is a Senior Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center and CNA, and the Senior Strategist at the Center for Climate and Security. Previously, she served as the President and CEO of the Consortium for Ocean Leadership.

Kerstyn Auman is a Space Situational Awareness Analyst with the Mission Analysis and Operations Department of The Aerospace Corporation. In this role, she is both an analyst and developer, conducting modeling and simulation analyses related to space traffic management: namely collision avoidance, orbit determination, and covariance analysis. Since joining the corporation in 2019, Kerstyn has supported a number of government customers and projects, primarily in the civil sector. Of particular note is her work with NASA, performing validation-type efforts for both the Osiris-Rex mission and the Conjunction Assessment and Risk Analysis (CARA) program; her contributions include verifying the operational orbit of the Osiris-Rex spacecraft by means of independent orbit determination and developing a tool to assess the validity of commercial-operator orbit determination solutions for potential processing in conjunction assessment analyses. She also supports the Department of Commerce, performing exploratory analysis to help inform the space traffic management system of tomorrow. Kerstyn earned both her Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Aerospace Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University in 2017 and 2019, respectively. Her graduate research topic was focused on the non-catalytic microwave ignition of “green” hydrazine replacements, with extensive coursework in propulsion and astrodynamics. In her free time, she serves as the east-coast social chair for the corporation’s Aerospace Career Development Club and enjoys several hobbies including skiing, traveling, hiking, baking, and crafting.