Prof. Schrogl is currently Head of Policies Department, European Space Agency (ESA); Paris, France.

George W.S. Abbey is the Baker Botts Senior Fellow in Space Policy at the Baker Institute. From 1996 to 2001, he served as the director of NASA Johnson Space Center. Abbey graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1954 and received a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology in 1959. Prior to being assigned as an Air Force captain to NASA’s Apollo Program at the Manned Spacecraft Center in 1964, he served in the Air Force Research and Development Command and was involved in the early Air Force manned space activities including the Dyna-Soar Program. In 1976, he was named director of flight operations, a position in which he was responsible for operational planning and management of flight crew and flight control activities for all manned space flight missions. In 1983, he became director of the Flight Crew Operations Directorate. In 1990, Abbey was selected as deputy for operations and senior NASA representative to the Synthesis Group and was charged with defining strategies for returning to the moon and landing on Mars. In 1991, Abbey was appointed senior director for civil space policy for the National Space Council in the Executive Office of the President.

Patrick Cohendet is Professor of Economics at the University of Strasbourg, France. He is presently visiting professor at HEC Montréal business school in Canada. His research interests include Economics of Innovation, Technology Management, Knowledge Management, Theory of the firm, and Economics of creativity. He is the author or co-author of 15 books and over 50 articles in refereed journals. He has conducted a series of economic studies on innovation (measurement of spin-offs, evaluation of the economic benefits of R&D projects, evaluation of technology transfer etc.). These studies were carried out by his research laboratory BETA of the University of Strasbourg for different European and North American organisations such as the European Commission, the EU, OECD, Council of Europe,  or the Canadian Space Agency.

Kazuto Suzuki is Associate Professor of International Political Economy at Public Policy School of Hokkaido University, Japan.  He graduated Department of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University, and received Ph.D. from Sussex European Institute, University of Sussex, England. 

He has worked in the University of Tsukuba from 2000 to 2008, and moved to Hokkaido University Public Policy School.  His research subject is focused on European integration and transformation of national policies with a perspective on security, technology and economy.  He has conducted researches from International Political Economy perspective in Space Policy, together with export control policy, science and technology policy and policies on market regulation.  He has published number of articles and books, both in Japanese and English, including Policy Logics and Institutions of European Space Collaboration (Ashgate, 2003), "Administrative Reforms and Policy Logics of Japanese Space Policy", Space Policy (Vol.22 no.1, 2005), "Transforming Japan's Space Policy-making", Space Policy (Vol.23, no.2 2007), "Space policy of the European Union", in Shoji (ed.) The Path and Vector of European Integration (Keio Univ. Press, 2007, Japanese), Space: Japan’s New Security Agenda (Research Institute of Peace and Security, 2007), "Basic Law for Space Activities: A New Space Policy for Japan for the 21st Century" in Schrogl et al (eds.) Yearbook on Space Policy 2006/2007 (SpringerWienNew York, 2008), "Japanese Steps toward Regional and Global Confidence Building" in Logsdon and Moltz (eds.) Collective Security in Space: Asian Perspectives (Space Policy Institute, The George Washington University, 2008), “Space and Security: Japanese Perspective”, Penser les Ailes françaises (No.16, 2008)

As an expert of space policy, he has been working as an advisor for Space Development Committee of Liberal Democratic Party of Japan and Society of Japanese Aerospace Industry, and Senior Policy Researcher for JAXA.  He also has been closely involved in the development of Japanese space decision-making process including the establishment of the Basic Law for Space Activities of 2008 and Mid-term Plan for Space Activities of 2009. 

Michael Potter serves as Director, of Paradigm Ventures a family investment firm focused on high technology ventures. Previously Potter was Vice Chairman, founder and President of Esprit Telecom plc., a pan-European competitive telecommunications services provider. During his 8 years at Esprit, the team grew the company to 1,000 employees in over 9 European countries and a market capitalization of a billion US dollars. He was formerly an international telecommunications analyst at the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C. Potter was also Vice Chairman of the founding Board of the European Competitive Telecommunications Association (ECTA).

First time documentary filmmaker Michael, has created the award winning film, "Orphans of Apollo." Potter previously worked on the 13 part WGBH Series, "War & Peace in the Nuclear Age." Michael is a member of the Board of the Trustees of ISU. Michael was one of the founders of the ISU Scholarship fund which has raised scholarships fund for over 10 scholars. Michael is on the Board of Directors the Manna Energy Foundation, a non-profit foundation that is installing clean water solutions in high schools in Rwanda. Michael is a founder of Odyssey Moon, the first entrant into the Google Lunar Xprize. Michael is a Senior Fellow at the International Institute of Space Commerce. He is a director Global Connect. His articles on high technology business and policy have been widely published. Michael received his MS degree from the London School of Economics and his BA from California State University at Sacramento, and a certificate in Space Studies from the International Space University.