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Dr. Gérard Brachet is Space Policy Consultant, former Chairman of the
UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (2006-2008), French
expert on the UN Group of Governmental Experts on Outer Space TCBMs
(2012-2013).
Prof. Kazuto Suzuki is Member, Panel of Experts, Established Pursuant to
UN Resolution 1929 (2010) at the United Nations, New York; and Professor
of International Politics at Graduate School of Law of Hokkaido University,
Japan. He was Visiting Fellow to Princeton Institute for International and
Regional Studies (PIIRS) in 2012. He has conducted researches from
International Political Economy perspective in Space Policy, together with
nuclear energy policy (contributed to Independent Investigation Commission
of Fukushima nuclear accident), export control policy, science and
technology policy, counter-terrorism and policies on market regulation. He
has contributed to the drafting the Basic Space Law of Japan, and served as
space expert in number of government consultation councils. He is a full
member of International Academy of Astronautics, the chairman of the
Space Security Commission of International Astronautical Federation, and a
member of Space Security Council of World Economic Forum. A prolific
author, his most recent publications include, Regulatory Power of European
Union (2012, Japanese) and Space and International Politics (2011, Japanese,
Suntory Prize Awarded), Policy Logics and Institutions of European Space
Collaboration (2003).
Dr. Xavier Pasco is a Senior Research Fellow at the Fondation pour la
Recherche Stratégique (FRS) based in Paris where he is in charge of the
Department “Technology, Space and Security.” Previous to 1997, he was
researcher at CREST (Center for Research and Evaluation of the
relationships between Strategies and Technology) associated to Ecole
Polytechnique. His research is currently focused on space and high
technology policies and decision-making processes associated with national
security strategies. He is working more specifically on the U.S. policies and on
their impact on the transatlantic relationship in the space activity, both in the
civilian and military domains. He also conducts work on the NATO-
European defense structure relationship in the domain of interoperability
and coalition warfare. Xavier Pasco is also associate Professor at the
University of Marne-la-Vallée and fellow at the Space Policy Institute in the
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