Project Advisory Panel

Dr. Roger-Maurice Bonnet is the former Scientific Director of the European Space Agency (ESA) and is currently Director-Designate of the International Institute of Space Research in Bern, Switzerland. He is a solar astronomer and a space physicist and was the first in France to launch solar instruments on board sounding rockets to take pictures and spectra of the sun in ultraviolet. He has also been responsible for several experiments on board NASA and French satellites. Dr. Bonnet was the founder and Director of the Laboratoire de Physique Stellaire et Planétaire (LPSP) of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) from 1969 until 1983. He then served as the Scientific Director of the European Space Agency for 18 years, and is presently Directeur de Recherches at the Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale in Orsay, France. At the ESA, he was responsible for the elaboration of the Horizon 2000 Programme and for the definition of the Living Planet program for the study of the Earth. In 1990, Dr. Bonnet conducted the ESA Lunar Base study. He is Officier de la Légion d'Honneur and has also recently received the NASA Public Service Medal.

Sarah Carey, Esq. is a partner at the Washington, DC law firm of Squire, Sanders, & Dempsey LLP. She specializes in trade and investment and provides legal counsel to a broad range of U.S. and other Western companies investing in the Russian and other CIS markets. Ms. Carey has structured many of the new business forms now available in Russia and the CIS and recently has helped to design and establish a variety of investment funds operating in the CIS while remaining actively involved in enterprise privatization and restructuring. She has served as lead counsel on several of the largest sale/purchase transactions involving Russian corporate securities and on U.S. Government delegations to the CIS to participate in bilateral conferences on legal and trade policy issues. She was named by President Clinton to serve on the first board of directors of the Russian-American Enterprise Fund and was appointed by U.S. Secretary of Defense William Perry to the board of the Defense Enterprise Fund.

Dr. Michael DeBakey is internationally recognized as a pioneer of modern medicine. He is a senior attending surgeon at The Methodist Hospital, the largest hospital in the Texas Medical Center. He has served as an advisor to nearly every US president for the past fifty years, as well as to heads of state throughout the world. Dr. DeBakey's efforts helped establish the National Library of Medicine, which is now the world's largest and most prestigious repository of medical archives. More recently, his 1996 trip to Russia to consult on the surgery of Russian president Boris Yeltsin was reported by every major news medial outlet around the world. And in the summer of 2001, he was selected to serve on NASA's International Space Station Management and Cost Evaluation Task Force.

Dr. Louis Friedman is the Executive Director of the Planetary society in Pasadena, California. He worked at the AVCO Space Systems Division from 1963-1968, on both civilian and military space programs, and from 1970 to 1980 he worked on deep space missions at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. Among the projects he has worked on are: navigation systems analysis for Mariner-Venus-Mercury and for the Grand Tour, and mission design studies for the Venus Orbital Imaging Radar, Halley Comet Rendezvous-Solar Sail, and the Mars Program. Dr. Friedman has been the manager of Advanced Planetary Studies at JPL and has been involved in the planning of future space missions for many years. He is the author of more than twenty papers on Navigation, Mission Analysis and Design, and Mission Planning; he has served on numerous space program advisory groups; and he recently has been asked to participate in both Congressional and Administration reviews concerning American and Russian space exploration missions.

The Honorable John H. Gibbons served as Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy from 1993 to 1998. As Science Advisor to the President he was the most senior member of the White House staff on matters of science and technology policy. Prior to his White House service, Dr. Gibbons was Director of the U.S. Congressional Office of Technology Assessment for over thirteen years. Before he was called to OTA, Dr. Gibbons was Director of the Energy, Environment, and Resources Center and Professor of Physics at the University of Tennessee. Since leaving the White House, Dr. Gibbons has served as the Karl T. Compton Lecturer at MIT, and Senior Fellow at the National Academy of Engineering where he assisted the NAE president on a variety of topics including the new NAE program in Earth Systems Engineering.

Ms. Rose Gottemoeller is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and holds a joint appointment with the Russian and Eurasian Program and the Global Policy Program. A specialist in arms control issues in Russia and the other former Soviet states, her research at the Endowment focuses on issues of nuclear security and stability, non-proliferation and arms control. Before joining the Endowment in October 2000, Ms. Gottemoeller was Deputy Undersecretary for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation in the U.S. Department of Energy. Prior to the Energy Department, Ms. Gottemoeller served for three years as deputy director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. From 1993 to 1994, she served on the National Security Council in the White House as director for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia Affairs. Previously, she was a senior defense analyst at RAND, a Council on Foreign Relations Fellow, and an adjunct professor of Soviet military policy at Georgetown University.

The Honorable Arthur A. Hartman has a long and distinguished record of government service. During the Kennedy Administration, he served as a Special Assistant to Undersecretary of State George Ball. With the Nixon and Ford Administration, he was Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs. In 1977, President Carter appointed him ambassador to France, and in 1981 President Reagan named him ambassador to the Soviet Union, a post he held for over five years. Ambassador Hartman retired from public service in 1987 as a Career Ambassador, the highest rank in the US. Foreign Service. He is currently a senior consultant to APCO Associates, advising senior corporate executives on strategies for foreign business development.

Mr. Eugene Lawson has been President of the U.S.-Russia Business Council since 1993, having been Vice Chairman of the Export-Import Bank of the United States since 1989. At Ex-Im Bank, Mr. Lawson was the George H.W. Bush Administration's point man on negotiations to conclude the $2 billion Oil and Gas Framework Agreement with Russia. From 1988 to 1989, he was Deputy Undersecretary of Labor for International Affairs and, concurrently, U.S. Ambassador to the International Labor Organization in Geneva. From 1984 to 1988, Mr. Lawson was Executive Director of the Washington office of Russell Reynolds Associates, an international executive recruiting firm. And from 1981 to 1984, he was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for East Asia and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for East-West Trade.

Dr. John M. Logsdon is Director of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs, where he is also Professor of Political Science and International Affairs. He is currently a member of the NASA Advisory Council and the Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee of the Department of Transportation. He is a recipient of the Distinguished Public Service Medal from NASA. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the International Academy of Astronautics and Vice Chair of its Commission on Space Policy, Law, and Economics. Dr. Logsdon recently served as a member of the Committee on Human Space Exploration of the Space Studies Board of the National Research Council and in the past he has served on the Vice President's Space Policy Advisory Board, the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board of the National Research Council, NASA's Space and Earth Sciences Advisory Committee, and the Research Advisory Committee of the National Air & Space Museum.

Academician Roald Z. Sagdeev is Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland and Director of SilkSat, a telecommunications project utilizing small satellites. He is also Director Emeritus of the Space Research Institute, the Moscow-based center of the Russian space exploration program. Dr. Sagdeev was one of the youngest scientists ever elected a full academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and is also a member of the American Academy of Sciences. In addition to promoting international cooperation in science, Dr. Sagdeev played an outspoken political role during the first five years of perestroika. Elected to the Supreme Soviet in 1987, he served as a summit advisor to Mikhail S. Gorbachev and Eduard Shevardnadze at three summits: Geneva (1985), Washington (1987) and Moscow (1988). He also served as an advisor to Gorbachev on issues related to space.

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