A Biographies of Contributors (In Alphabetical Order by Last Names)
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Appendix A A Biographies of Contributors (in alphabetical order by last names) Timiebi Aganaba – Jeanty Timiebi Aganaba-Jeanty is a post-doctoral fellow with the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)’s International Law Research Program. At CIGI, she researches law and policy instruments for monitoring and verification of climate change agreements. With a focus on satellite technology and geoengineering solu- tions, she analyzes the evolving legal principles that would be required to regulate the use of emerging and high technologies in the fight against climate change. Prior to joining CIGI, Timiebi was Executive Director of the World Space Week Association, coordinating the global response to the UN declaration that World Space Week should be celebrated from October 4 to 10, annually. She was also a space policy consultant with Montreal-based consultancy, Euroconsult, and a legal and international cooperation officer at the Nigerian Space Research and Development Agency. She is called to the Nigerian bar. Timiebi holds a Ph.D. and LLM in aviation and space law from McGill University. Her Ph.D. research was focused on the concept of “common benefit” and the effect of the international space law regime on the development of space programs in emerging nations. She has an MSc in Space Management from the International Space University, Strasbourg, France, and an LL.B. from the University of Leicester, UK. Md. Tanveer Ahmad Md. Tanveer Ahmad is currently the Executive Director of McGill University’s Centre for Research in Air and Space Law (CRASL), an Erin J.C. Arsenault Postdoctoral Researcher in McGill University’s Institute of Air and Space Law (IASL), and the Editor of the Annals of Air and Space Law, a peer-reviewed journal published by the CRASL. He also teaches the Government Regulation of Space Activities course at McGill’s Faculty of Law as a Course Lecturer and holds an Assistant Professor position at the Department of Law, North South University, © Springer International Publishing AG 2017 605 R.S. Jakhu, J.N. Pelton (eds.), Global Space Governance: An International Study, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-54364-2 606 A Biographies of Contributors Bangladesh. He has earned his Doctor of Civil Law (DCL) and Master of Laws (LLM) degrees from the IASL in 2016 and 2010, respectively. While pursuing his doctoral studies, he held the Assad Kotaite Fellowship of the UN International Civil Aviation Organization and the Boeing Fellowship in Air and Space Law. He has authored a book, several articles in various peer-reviewed law journals, several book chapters, policy papers, and working papers. He has presented papers in various conferences (including UN conferences), and has assisted with the editing of, among other things, Monograph Series I, II & III of CRASL, and Routledge Handbook of Space Law. Ntorina Antoni Ntorina Antoni holds an advanced LLM in Air and Space Law from the International Institute of Air & Space Law (IIASL), Leiden University (2014-2015) and a LLM in International and European Public Law from Tilburg University (2012-2013) in the Netherlands. She obtained her law degree from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece in 2012, while her interest in space law was raised during her par- ticipation at the ECSL/IISL Manfred Lachs Moot Court Competition and the ECSL Summer Course in Space Law and Policy in 2011. She is an Attorney-at- Law, admitted to the Athens Bar Association since January 2016. Currently she is the In-House Counsel at Swiss Space Systems Holding SA – S3, a company which is planning to perform parabolic flights worldwide and is developing an innovative air launched suborbital Shuttle – Sub-Orbital Aircraft Reusable (SOAR) - that will allow for delivery of small satellites into low Earth orbit and for the operation of sub-orbital flights. Being extremely interested in both topics Ntorina, is involved in the establishment of the framework for the operation of these missions under the scope of aviation and space law. Natalia Archinard Dr. Natália Archinard was seconded by the State of Geneva to the Space Programme Office of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in 2005. In 2006, she joined the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs in Berne where she has since dealt with science and space policy with a focus on international relations. Her responsi- bilities include leading the Swiss delegation at the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNCOPUOS) as well as representing Switzerland in the process led by the European Union (EU) with regards a proposal for an International Code of Conduct on space activities. As a Swiss delegate to the European Space Agency (ESA) and to the former ESA-EU High-Level Space Policy Group, she has developed a cross-cutting view on European and global space policies as well as on space security issues. She is involved in the Swiss space policy and contributes to the national positions on outer space in the disarmament forums. Dr. Archinard was educated in mathematics at the University of Geneva and at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich where she obtained her Ph.D. in 2000. She was post- doctoral fellow at McGill University, Montreal, from 2001 to 2002. A Biographies of Contributors 607 Werner Balogh Dr. Werner Balogh is a Programme Officer with the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) in Vienna, Austria. In this role, he serviced meetings of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) and is presently coordinating and organizing capacity building activities in space science, technol- ogy and its applications under the United Nations Programme on Space Applications. He first joined the United Nations in 1997 as an Associate Expert on Space Applications and participated in the planning and organizing of the Third United Nations Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNISPACE III), held in 1999. Before returning to the United Nations in 2006, Dr. Balogh worked for the Austrian Space Agency and for the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT). He holds Dipl.-Ing. and Dr. degrees in technical physics from the Vienna University of Technology, a MSc degree in space studies from the International Space University and a MA degree in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Sandy Belle Habchi Ms. Sandy Belle Habchi obtained her Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Nicosia, Cyprus, after which she assumed the position of a Corporate Officer at Papantoniou & Papantoniou LLC, Cyprus, where she dealt with international clients looking to expand their businesses and offices in Cyprus. She then pursued a Master of Laws at the Institute of Air and Space Law, McGill University, Canada, with a focus on “Criminal Litigation in Aviation following an Accident/Incident and its effect on the Investigation Process” for her thesis. Upon her admission at McGill University, she was awarded the Professor Masao Sekiguchi Fellowship in Air and Space Law. Ms. Habchi holds the position of Research Assistant at the Institute, where she edited and revised chapters in Professor Paul Stephen Dempsey’s upcom- ing edition of Public International Air Law book. She is also an Assistant Editor of the Annals of Air and Space Law, a Teaching Assistant in the graduate level course Comparative Air Law, and Research, and Administrative Assistant for the Manual on International Law Applicable to Military Uses of Outer Space (MILAMOS) project. Duncan Blake Wing Commander Duncan Blake has been a Legal Officer in the Royal Australian Air Force for the past 22 years working at the tactical, operational and strategic levels at home and on deployment overseas. He has also been a prosecutor for the military. He served as the Deputy Director of Operations and International Law for the Australian Department of Defence, providing operations and international law advice and sup- port at the highest levels within Defence and across government. More recently, Duncan was legal advisor to the Defence Space Coordinating Office and he chaired inter-departmental and international working groups in respect of strategic space law. 608 A Biographies of Contributors Duncan has contributed widely to legal aspects of military space policy and strat- egy within the Department of Defence, and has also written several articles in this area (one of which earned the Lieber Society Military Prize in 2011). Duncan recently transferred out of the permanent Air Force in order to commit himself more fully to the MILAMOS Project (www.mcgill.ca/milamos) and his Ph.D., but he continues to contribute to the Australian Department of Defence as a Reserve Legal Officer. He is also starting a consultancy in law and strategy for aerospace services to create a better-connected world. Duncan has undergraduate degrees in Law and Economics from the University of Western Australia, a Master of Laws degree from the University of Melbourne and a Master of Laws degree from McGill University. P.J. Blount Dr. P.J. Blount (Ph.D., Global Affairs, Rutgers University, 2016; M.S., Global Affairs, Rutgers University, 2015; LLM, Public International Law, King’s College London, 2007; J.D., University of Mississippi School of Law, 2006; B.A./A.B.J., University of Georgia, 2002) is an Adjunct Professor in the LLM in the Air and Space Law at the University of Mississippi School of Law. He also teaches at Montclair State University and New Jersey City University. Previously, he served as Research Counsel for the National Center for Remote Sensing, Air, and Space Law at the University of Mississippi School of Law. He teaches Space Security Law, International Telecommunications Law, Cyberlaw, Human Rights Law, Intellectual Property, and US Foreign Policy. Blount’s primary research areas are legal issues related to space security and cyberspace governance.