In these early years of the 21st century, space science, technology, law and policy are a tangled knot of commercial, national, and international interests leading to a new focus on space governance. Framed by early developments like the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 and the context of the Cold War, the current landscape of Space 4.0 and the emerging Space 5.0 is a flux of political economic forces coupled with the need to cater to the individual. As billionaires launch themselves into orbit, nation-states large and small are in the position of weighing in on one side or another of unresolved interpretive debates while international bodies like the United Nations continue to be less effective with respect to the progressive development of law. 

How can a globally networked society make its way into a peaceful future? Dr. Timiebi Aganaba will examine and address this question through the lens of global space governance and discuss the role of legal interpretation in creating and addressing issues of space policy.

Dr. Timiebi Aganaba is an assistant professor of Space and Society, in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society with a courtesy appointment at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, at Arizona State University. She serves on the Advisory Board for the Space Generation Advisory Council supporting the UN Programme on Space Applications and on the Science Advisory Boards of World View Enterprises and the SETI Institute. 

She has previously served as the Executive Director of the World Space Week Association, as a space industry consultant, taught space policy, law and economics department at the International Space University, and represented Nigeria at the UN as a Next Generation Aviation Professional at the International Civil Aviation Organization Model Council in Montreal (2014) and at the Legal subcommittee of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space in Vienna (2011).

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