Speakers for this event

• Dr. Alissa Haddaji

  Dr. Alissa Haddaji

  Alissa J. Haddaji is an Adjunct Professor of Space Law, Policy, and Ethics, specializing in International Space Threat Management (Planetary Protection & Defense). She is the founder and director of The Space Consortium and Massachusetts Space Week (formerly Space Week at Harvard, now expanded statewide). She serves as the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) coordinator for the United Nations-mandated Space Mission Planning Advisory Group (SMPAG) Legal Working Group on Planetary Defense. She is also the Chair of the International Astronautical Federation’s (IAF) Near Earth Object & Planetary Defense Committee. Additionally, she represents the International Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) to SMPAG. Dr. Haddaji created and taught the first Space Law, Policy, and Ethics curriculum at Harvard Law School, Harvard Summer School, Boston College Law School, and Paris-Saclay University’s “New Space” program. She previously served as COSPAR’s Planetary Protection Project Officer (2015–2019), was a senior researcher in space economics at Harvard Business School (2020), a space policy research fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, and a visiting scholar at the GWU Space Policy Institute. She holds a Ph.D. in Science and Technology Policy and five Master’s degrees in Planetary Science, History/International Relations, Political Science, Law, and Socio-Anthropology, from Brown University, La Sorbonne University, and Bordeaux 1 University.