International Governance afternoon meeting: Privatisation of Space and Space Law

About the speaker

Katrin Nyman Metcalf is Chairman of the International Relations Committee (IRC) of the European Space Agency since 2017. Between 2015 and 2017 she represented Estonia in the IRC. Her PhD (Uppsala University, 1999) is on the question of use of space resources and the line between appropriation and use. Katrin is active globally as consultant primarily in the area of communications law in the wide sense, including ICT regulation, privacy and data protection, media law, e-governance and cyber issues. She has worked in more than 50 countries, including post-conflict and developing states, with legal analysis and drafting, professional training and creation of regulatory authorities. Katrin is visiting Professor at the Institute of Law, School of Business and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia, and Programme Director for Research and Legal Issues for the Estonian e-Governance Academy. Katrin has published extensively primarily on issues related to law and technology, including space law, but also on regional integration, especially focusing on integration in other regions than Europe.

We serve coffee and snacks