The Space Security Programme

Space Security Conference Organised by CDiSS and IDSA

Supported By

China Security Program, World Security Institute

Media Sponsors

Advisory Board

Professor Sir Martin Sweeting OBE FRS

Sir Martin is CEO and founder of the University owned spin-off company, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL). The company was initially set-up to market small satellites and the Surrey Know-How transfer programme. In return, this marketing has contributed back to the research tailoring small satellites to new application areas hitherto unable to exploit Space due to the high costs of getting into orbit. In recognition of his pioneering work on cost-effective spacecraft engineering he was awarded a Knighthood in the Queen's New Year's Honours list in 2002. This on top of many other accolades in the academic community, which recognises the innovation, he has brought. The company has grown enormously and expanded in a market where the larger Space companies have contracted and today has a larger order book than at any time in its past. Surrey Space Centre has a world wide reputation for building reliable satellites, operating them successfully in space and introducing space to a new community of users who are just beginning to explore this potential.

Dr John Sheldon

The CDiSS Space Security programme is headed by Dr. John B. Sheldon, a leading expert in the field. A former diplomat, Dr. Sheldon is the founding co-editor of the journal Astropolitics, published by Routledge, and has lectured and taught military space issues at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies, London, the Higher Command and Staff Course at the Joint Services Command and Staff College, Shrivenham, and the School of Advanced Air & Space Studies, Air University, Maxwell AFB, Alabama, where he is currently based as visiting professor. Dr. Sheldon has published in the RUSI Journal, Airpower Journal, and Space News, among others, and has been featured in The New York Times and the BBC World Service's World Update.

Prof. Bhupendra Jasani

Professor Bhupendra Jasani has a PhD in nuclear physics and nuclear medicine. In 1990, he joined the Department of War Studies, King's College London and currently a visiting professor at King's. He was instrumental to establishing the European Union Satellite Centre to monitor arms control treaties, early warning of conflicts and the environment. Under the European Union's Global Monitoring for Security and Stability (GMOSS) project, he is coordinating two projects on treaty monitoring and early warning using commercial remote sensing satellites and participating in two other projects, on Population Monitoring such as refugees so as to deliver aid to them and on Security Concepts in the age of Globalisation. Recently, he has been appointed as a chairman for the Commission VIII.5 on Policies, Treaties and Data Access of the International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. He has acted as a consultant for the United Nations on a number of space related subjects and has carried out a number of studies for the International Atomic Energy Agency (a UN specialised agency) on behalf of the UK and German Governments. Currently he is engaged in a study for the German Government on monitoring nuclear activities using commercial earth orbiting satellites.

Prof. Ram Jakhu

Professor Jakhu is currently an Associate Professor at the Institute of Air and Space Law, Faculty of Law, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. He teaches several graduate-level courses and conducts research in international space law, law of space applications, law of space commercialization, law and policy related to military uses of outer space, government regulation of space activities and law of telecommunications. He is the managing editor of Space Library Regulated Series, a member of the Editorial Boards of the Annals of Air and Space Law and of the Utrecht Series in Air and Space law, and a member of the Board of Directors of the International Institute of the Space Law, International Astronautical Federation, Paris, France. He is also Director of Research for Space Security Index (http://www.spacesecurity.org/), which is a research partnership among several academic, governmental, and non-governmental organizations that together make up the consortium, spacesecurity.org. Prof. Jakhu received his Doctor of Civil Law degree (on Dean’s Honours List) in 1983 in Law of Outer Space from McGill University. He also holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Air and Space Law from McGill and another LL.M. from Punjab University, India, in Public and Private International Law. In addition, he has earned Bachelor of Arts (B.A. and Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degrees.

Mr. Narendra Sisodia

Mr. Narendra Sisodia took charge of IDSA in September 2005. He retired as Secretary in the Ministry of Finance in January 2005. Prior to this assignment, he was Secretary, Defence Production and Supplies, Ministry of Defence. Born in 1945, Mr. Sisodia graduated from St. Stephens’ College Delhi and obtained a Master’s Degree from Harvard University, USA, where he was a Mason Fellow. Mr. Sisodia joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1968 and served as District Magistrate in four districts of Rajasthan. He was later Principal Secretary, Industries & Commerce, Chairman and Managing Director of the State Industrial Development & Infrastructure Corporation and Chairman, State Electricity Board, Rajasthan. In Government of India, he served as Joint Secretary, Ministry of Defence from 1988-94. As Additional Secretary in the National Security Council Secretariat, he was closely associated with the work of the Kargil Review Committee. Subsequently, he was appointed as a member of the Task Force set up to recommend measures for Reforming the Management of Defence. He was also responsible for providing resource support to the Group of Ministers on Reforming the National Security System. As the first Additional Secretary of the newly constituted National Security Council Secretariat, he was closely associated with the nascent NSCS and other support structures of the National Security Council like the Strategic Policy Group & the National Security Advisory Board. He has also been Vice Chancellor of Mohan Lal Sukhadia University, Udaipur. He is a member of the National Security Advisory Board.

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