GEGSLA Team

GEGSLA Members

The group consists of major stakeholders in lunar activities including representatives from space agencies/government, industry, international organizations, academia, and civil society.

The Group is composed of a Secretariat, 38 members and observers. Members and Observers of the Group participate on a personal basis and any views expressed at the meetings or by the Group do not represent the position of organizations to whom members may belong. MVA membership is not required.

GEGSLA Secretariat

The Secretariat liaise with the members/observers of the Group, maintain a dedicated website and social media, organize meetings, lead discussions, and prepare documents.

The Chair, the Vice-Chairs, or Executive Secretary represent the Group in external events.

The Chair and the Executive Secretary will not count as members.

Secretariat

Members

	First Name	Last Name	Country	Position	Affiliation
1	Kyle	Acierno	Japan	CEO	Ispace US
2	Ayman	Ahmed	Egypt	Space Imaging Team Leader	EgSA
3	Nasr	Al-Sahhaf	Saudi Arabia	CEO	Alsahhaf Consultant Engineers
4	Ioana	Bratu	Netherlands	Legal Expert & Lecturer	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
5	A.C.	Charania	USA	Civil Space Sales Director	Blue Origin
6	Irina	Chernykh	Russia	Senior lecturer	RUDN University
7	Ian	Christensen	USA	Director of Private Sector Programs	Secure World Foundation
8	Timothy	Cichan	USA	Space Exploration Architect	Lockheed Martin
9	Ian	Crawford	UK	Professor of Planetary Science and Astrobiology, Birkbeck College, University of London	Birkbeck College, University of London
10	Olavo	de Oliveira Bittencourt Neto	Brazil	Professor	Catholic University of Santos – Brazil
11	George	Danos	Cyprus	Representative	Republic of Cyprus, CSEO
12	Ziv	Dubinsky	Israel	CEO	Metabolic Robots feeding solutions ltd
13	Mike	Gold	USA	Executive Vice-President of Civil Space and External Relations	Redwire Space
14	Alice	Gorman	Australia	Associate Professor	Flinders University
15	Gernot	Groemer	Austria	Director	Austrian Space Forum
16	Linli	Guo	China	Space engineer	CAST
17	Adrián	Guzmán González	Mexico	Representative	Agencia Espacial Mexicana
18	Dan	Hendrickson	USA	Vice President	Astrobotic
19	Ademir	Xavier	Brazil	Technologist	Brazilian Space Agency
20	Frank	Koch	Germany	Founder and CEO	Orbit Recycling
21	Tufan	Kayaci	Turkey	Unit Head (Space Systems and Spacecraft Dept.)	Turkish Space Agency
22	Igor	Mitrofanov	Russia	Head of Department, Mission Scientist	Space Research Institute (IKI), Russian Academy of Sciences
23	Dovile	Matuleviciute	Luxembourg	Policy Officer – Legal Affairs	Luxembourg Space Agency
24	Andrew	Nyawade	Kenya	Systems Engineer	Kenya Space Agency
25	Omolade	Odetara	Nigeria	Product Manager	StellarXplora
26	Dorin	Prunariu	Romania	Member of the Board	ROSA
27	Jing	Peng	China	Researcher	China Academy of Space Technology
28	P.	Sreekumar	India	Dhawan Professor, Space Science Program Office	ISRO
29	Rajeswari	Rajagopalan	India	Head, Nuclear and Space Policy Initiative​	Observer Research Foundation
30	Maria	Rhimbassen	France	Graduate researcher	University of Toulouse
31	Gao	Ruofei	China	General Counsel	China Great Wall Industry Corporation
32	Antonino	Salmeri	Luxembourg	Doctoral Researcher in Space Law	Space Generation Advisory Council
33	Gabriel	Swiney	USA	Attorney Adviser on Space Matters	U.S. Department of State
34	Mark	Sundahl	USA	Professor	Cleveland State University
35	Maria	Terekhova	Ukraine	Deputy Head of Division, International Cooperation	Yuzhnoye State Design Office
36	Guoyu	Wang	China	Dean and Associated Professor	Academy of Air, Space Policy and Law (AASPL), Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT)
37	Annette	Williams	Canada	Policy Analyst	Canadian Space Agency
38	Yu	Xu	China	Diplomat/Legal affairs	Foreign Ministry of China

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Composition of Subgroups

Sub-Group 1 – Information Sharing

• Co-Chair 1 : Antonino Salmeri – Luxembourg
• Co-Chair 2 : Raij Rajagopalan – India

	Name	Nationality
1	Antonino Salmeri	Luxembourg
2	Mark J. Sundahl	USA
3	Igor Mitrofanov	Russia
4	Xu Yu	China
5	Ruofei Gao	China
6	Guoyu Wang	China
7	Raji Rajagopalan	India
8	Alice Gorman	Australia
9	Adrian Gúzman	Mexico

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Sub-Group 2 – Safe Operations and Lunar Environmental Protection

• Co-Chair 1 : Mike Gold – USA
• Co-Chair 2 : Guo Linli – China

	Name	Nationality
1	Gernot Groemer	Austria
2	Ian Crawford	UK
3	Andrew Nyawade	Kenya
4	Tufan Kayaci	Turkey
5	Frank Koch	Germany
6	Nasr A. Al-Sahhaf	Saudi Arabia
7	Mike Gold	USA
8	Mark J. Sundahl	USA
9	Ziv Dubinsky	Israel
10	Igor Mitrofanov	Russia
11	Omolade Odetara	Nigeria
12	Jing Peng	China
13	Guoyu Wang	China
14	Dan Hendrickson	USA
15	Ayman Ahmed	Egypt
16	Guo Linli	China
17	Alice Gorman	Australia
18	Irina Chernykh	Russia
19	Adrian Gúzman	Mexico
20	Annette Williams	Canada

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Tiger Teams Co-Chairs

2 A – Tiger Team – Safety Zones

• Co-Chair 1 : Mark Sundahl – USA
• Co-Chair 2 : Guoyu Wang- China

	Name	Nationality
1	Igor Mitrofanov	Russia
2	Andrew Nyawade	Kenya
3	Adrian Gúzman	Mexico

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2 B – Tiger Teams – Heritage

• Co-Chair 1 : Jing Peng – China
• Co-Chair 2 : Alice Gorman – Australia

	Name	Nationality
1	Adrian Gúzman	Mexico

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2 C – Tiger Teams – Debris Mitigation / Environmental Sustainability

• Co-Chair 1 : Daniel Hendrickson – USA
• Co-Chair 2 : Irina Chernykh – Russia

	Name	Nationality
1	Frank Koch	Germany
2	Ayman Ahmed	Egypt
3	Tufan Kayaci	Turkey
4	Nasr A. Al-Sahhaf	Saudi Arabia
5	Ian Crawford	UK
6	Adrian Gúzman	Mexico
7	Gernot Groemer	Austria

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Sub-Group 3 – Compatibility and Interoperability

• Co-Chair 1 : Omolade Odetara – Nigeria
• Co-Chair 2 : Maria Terekhova – Ukraine

	Name	Nationality
1	Gernot Groemer	Austria
2	Andrew Nyawade	Kenya
3	Tufan Kayaci	Turkey
4	Maria Terekhova	Ukraine
5	Omolade Odetara	Nigeria
6	Ziv Dubinsky	Israel
7	Jing Peng	China
8	Guo Linli	China
9	Timothy Cichan	USA
10	Kyle Acierno	USA

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Sub-Group 4 – Responsible Governance

• Co-Chair 1: Nasr A. Al-Sahhaf – Saudi Arabia
• Co-Chair 2: Maria Rhimbassen – France

	Name	Nationality
1	Ian Christensen	USA
2	Ian Crawford	UK
3	Nasr. A. Al-Sahhaf	Saudi Arabia
4	Maria Rhimbassen	France
5	Frank Koch	Germany
6	Mike Gold	USA
7	Antonino Salmeri	Luxembourg
8	Xu Yu	China
9	Ruofei GAO	China
10	Dan Hendrickson	USA
11	Raji Rajagpalan	India
12	Ademir Xavier	Brazil
13	Ioana Bratu	Netherlands
14	Irina Chernykh	Russia
15	Dovile Matuleviciute	Luxembourg
16	Annette Williams	Canada

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