Prof. Dr.
Kai-Uwe Schrogl is the Head of the ESA Policies Department in the
European Space Agency since 2011, now Department for Relations with Member
States. 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 plenary working groups of UNCOPUOS).
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
15 books and more than 130 articles, reports and papers in the fields of space
policy and law as well as telecommunications policy. He launched and edited
until 2011 the ‘Yearbook on Space Policy’ and the book series ‘Studies in Space
Policy’ both published by ESPI at Springer (Wien/ New York). He sits on
editorial boards of various journals in the field of space policy and law
(Space Policy, Zeitschrift für Luft- und
Weltraumrecht – ZLW, Studies in Space Law/Nijhoff; previously also Acta
Astronautica).
Kai-Uwe Schrogl is Vice-President of the International Institute
of Space Law, Member of the International Academy of Astronautics and
Corresponding Member of 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 e.g. the International Space University (as Adjunct Faculty) and
the European Centre for Space Law’s Summer Courses.