Handbook of Space Security

Dr. Kai-Uwe Schrogl is the Head of the ESA Policies Department in the European Space Agency (ESA, Headquarters in Paris, France) since 2011. From 2007 to 2011 he was the Director of the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI) in Vienna, Austria. Prior to this, he was the Head of the Corporate Development and External Relations Department in the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Cologne, Germany. Previously he also worked with the German Ministry for Post and Telecommunications and the German Space Agency (DARA) in Bonn, Germany. He has been a delegate to numerous international forums and recently served as the chairman of various European and global committees (ESA International Relations Committee and two United Nations Committees on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, UNCOPUOS, plenary working groups). He presented, respectively testified, at hearings of the European Parliament and the U.S. House of Representatives. Kai-Uwe Schrogl has written or co-edited 12 books and more than 130 articles, reports and papers in the fields of space policy and law as well as telecommunications policy. He is editor in chief of the "Yearbook on Space Policy" and the book series "Studies in Space Policy" both published by ESPI at SpringerWienNewYork. In addition he sits on editorial boards of various international journals in the field of space policy and law (Acta Astronautica, Space Policy, Zeitschrift für Luft- und Weltraumrecht, Studies in Space Law/Nijhoff). Kai-Uwe Schrogl is a Member of the Board of Directors of the International Institute of Space Law, Member of the International Academy of Astronautics (recently chairing its Commission on policy, economics and regulations) and the Russian Academy for Cosmonautics. He holds a doctorate degree in political science and lectures international relations at Tübingen University, Germany (as an Honorary Professor). He has been a regular lecturer at, for example, the International Space University (where he serves as Adjunct Faculty) and the European Centre for Space Law's Summer Courses.Kai-Uwe Schrogl is the Head of the ESA Policies Department in the European Space Agency (ESA, Headquarters in Paris, France) since 2011. From 2007 to 2011 he was the Director of the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI) in Vienna, Austria. Prior to this, he was the Head of the Corporate Development and External Relations Department in the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Cologne, Germany. Previously he also worked with the German Ministry for Post and Telecommunications and the German Space Agency (DARA) in Bonn, Germany. He has been a delegate to numerous international forums and recently served as the chairman of various European and global committees (ESA International Relations Committee and two United Nations Committees on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, UNCOPUOS, plenary working groups). He presented, respectively testified, at hearings of the European Parliament and the U.S. House of Representatives. Kai-Uwe Schrogl has written or co-edited 12 books and more than 130 articles, reports and papers in the fields of space policy and law as well as telecommunications policy. He is editor in chief of the "Yearbook on Space Policy" and the book series "Studies in Space Policy" both published by ESPI at SpringerWienNewYork. In addition he sits on editorial boards of various international journals in the field of space policy and law (Acta Astronautica, Space Policy, Zeitschrift für Luft- und Weltraumrecht, Studies in Space Law/Nijhoff). Kai-Uwe Schrogl is a Member of the Board of Directors of the International Institute of Space Law, Member of the International Academy of Astronautics (recently chairing its Commission on policy, economics and regulations) and the Russian Academy for Cosmonautics. He holds a doctorate degree in political science and lectures international relations at Tübingen University, Germany (as an Honorary Professor). He has been a regular lecturer at, for example, the International Space University (where he serves as Adjunct Faculty) and the European Centre for Space Law's Summer Courses.