EI Space Expert Panel

"Future of Space" Expert Panel Meets in London

As part of its program, "The Future of Space: The Next Strategic Frontier," The Eisenhower Institute gathered its Expert Advisory Panel in London, England on March 16-17, 2006. The International Institute for Strategic Studies hosted the meeting at its London headquarters. Institute senior fellows Susan Eisenhower and Roald Sagdeev chaired the meeting and led the discussion on recent developments in military and civilian space in the international arena.

In its continuing effort to create and refine a pragmatic space security regime for the modern international security environment, The Eisenhower Institute has developed the final version of its Framework for Space Security. This year's panel served as a final stage in the production and promotion of the Framework. The panel discussed the viability of the proposal in its current form and also the most recent developments in national and international space issues, including the emerging concept of responsive space, China's ascendance as a space power, the upcoming release of the new US space policy, as well as the space strategies of Russia, India, and Europe.

Panel members who attended the meetings in London included:

• V.S. Arunachalam, former Defense Science Advisor for the Government of India, former advisor to Prime Minister Rajeev Gandhi, chairman of the Center for the Study of Science, Technology, and Policy (CSTEP) in Bangalore, India;
  
• Jacques Blamont, scientific sdvisor to the Chairman of the French national space agency, CNES;
  
• Roger Bonnet, former scientific director of the European Space Agency, director of the International Institute of Space Research, Bern, Switzerland;
  
• Kerstin Fredga, professor, Royal Institute of Technology, former chairman of the Swedish National Defense Research Institute, chairman of the Trustees of the Nobel Foundation;
  
• Richard Garwin, IBM Space Fellow Emeritus at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center, adjunct professor of Physics at Columbia University;
  
• Vittorio Manno, program manager of the International Space Science Institute in Bern, Switzerland; former senior scientist at the European Space Agency's Science Directorate;
  
• Dennis Papadopoulos, professor in the department of physics and astronomy, University of Maryland;
  
• Roald Sagdeev, distinguished professor and director of the East-West Space Science Center at the University of Maryland, former director of the Space Research Institute in Moscow, former director of the International Mission to Halley's Comet and former advisor to Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev on the Strategic Defense Initiative;
  
• Michael Yarymovych, past president of the International Academy of Astronautics, former vice president of International Technology and Advanced Systems of the Boeing Company, president of Sarasota Space Associates, an aerospace consulting firm.

Other attendees included: Alexei Arbatov, program co-chair, Carnegie-Moscow Center;

• Brett Biddington, apace initiative manager, Global Defense and Space Group, Cisco Systems Inc;
  
• Andrew Brookes, aerospace analyst, Defense Analysis Department, International Institute for Strategic Studies;
  
• Patrick Cronin, director of studies, International Institute for Strategic Studies;
  
• Vladimir Dvorkin, principal researcher, Institute of World Economy and International Relations;
  
• Susan Eisenhower, senior fellow, The Eisenhower Institute;
  
• Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr., senior advisor, The Eisenhower Institute, former Special Representative of the President for Arms Control, Nonproliferation, and Disarmament;
  
• Sergei Oznobishchev, director of the Institute for Strategic Assessment;
  
• Chad Kreikemeier, program assistant, The Eisenhower Institute