GEGSLA Team

GEGSLA Members

The group consists of major stakeholders in lunar activities including representatives from space agencies/government, industry, international organizations, academia, and civil society.

The Group is composed of a Secretariat, 38 members and observers. Members and Observers of the Group participate on a personal basis and any views expressed at the meetings or by the Group do not represent the position of organizations to whom members may belong. MVA membership is not required.

GEGSLA Secretariat

The Secretariat liaise with the members/observers of the Group, maintain a dedicated website and social media, organize meetings, lead discussions, and prepare documents.

The Chair, the Vice-Chairs, or Executive Secretary represent the Group in external events.

The Chair and the Executive Secretary will not count as members.

Secretariat

Members

	First Name	Last Name	Country	Position	Affiliation
1	Kyle	Acierno	Japan	CEO	Ispace US
2	Ayman	Ahmed	Egypt	Space Imaging Team Leader	EgSA
3	Nasr	Al-Sahhaf	Saudi Arabia	CEO	Alsahhaf Consultant Engineers
4	Ioana	Bratu	Netherlands	Legal Expert & Lecturer	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
5	A.C.	Charania	USA	Civil Space Sales Director	Blue Origin
6	Irina	Chernykh	Russia	Senior lecturer	RUDN University
7	Ian	Christensen	USA	Director of Private Sector Programs	Secure World Foundation
8	Timothy	Cichan	USA	Space Exploration Architect	Lockheed Martin
9	Ian	Crawford	UK	Professor of Planetary Science and Astrobiology, Birkbeck College, University of London	Birkbeck College, University of London
10	Olavo	de Oliveira Bittencourt Neto	Brazil	Professor	Catholic University of Santos – Brazil
11	George	Danos	Cyprus	Representative	Republic of Cyprus, CSEO
12	Ziv	Dubinsky	Israel	CEO	Metabolic Robots feeding solutions ltd
13	Mike	Gold	USA	Executive Vice-President of Civil Space and External Relations	Redwire Space
14	Alice	Gorman	Australia	Associate Professor	Flinders University
15	Gernot	Groemer	Austria	Director	Austrian Space Forum
16	Linli	Guo	China	Space engineer	CAST
17	Adrián	Guzmán González	Mexico	Representative	Agencia Espacial Mexicana
18	Dan	Hendrickson	USA	Vice President	Astrobotic
19	Ademir Luiz Xavier	Junior	Brazil	Technologist	Brazilian Space Agency
20	Frank	Koch	Germany	Founder and CEO	Orbit Recycling
21	Tufan	Kayaci	Turkey	Unit Head (Space Systems and Spacecraft Dept.)	Turkish Space Agency
22	Igor	Mitrofanov	Russia	Head of Department, Mission Scientist	Space Research Institute (IKI), Russian Academy of Sciences
23	Dovile	Matuleviciute	Luxembourg	Policy Officer – Legal Affairs	Luxembourg Space Agency
24	Andrew	Nyawade	Kenya	Systems Engineer	Kenya Space Agency
25	Omolade	Odetara	Nigeria	Product Manager	StellarXplora
26	Dorin	Prunariu	Romania	Member of the Board	ROSA
27	Jing	Peng	China	Researcher	China Academy of Space Technology
28	Tirtha	Pratim Das	India	Director, Space Science Program Office	ISRO
29	Rajeswari	Rajagopalan	India	Head, Nuclear and Space Policy Initiative​	Observer Research Foundation
30	Maria	Rhimbassen	France	Graduate researcher	University of Toulouse
31	Gao	Ruofei	China	General Counsel	China Great Wall Industry Corporation
32	Antonino	Salmeri	Luxembourg	Doctoral Researcher in Space Law	Space Generation Advisory Council
33	Gabriel	Swiney	USA	Attorney Adviser on Space Matters	U.S. Department of State
34	Mark	Sundahl	USA	Professor	Cleveland State University
35	Maria	Terekhova	Ukraine	Deputy Head of Division, International Cooperation	Yuzhnoye State Design Office
36	Guoyu	Wang	China	Dean and Associated Professor	Academy of Air, Space Policy and Law (AASPL), Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT)
37	Annette	Williams	Canada	Policy Analyst	Canadian Space Agency
38	Yu	Xu	China	Diplomat/Legal affairs	Foreign Ministry of China