Don’t look up? Space matters in international affairs
Expert Panel
Wednesday, 9 March, 5.30-6.45pm (NZDT)
National Office
New Zealand
Watch a recording of the event here
Hosted by the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs with support from the British High Commission in New Zealand.
This online event brings together space experts to discuss how international affairs are playing out beyond the Earth’s atmosphere.
The politics of outer space - Astropolitics - is rapidly growing in importance. Nation-states, businesses and other organisations are competing and cooperating in space to solve some of the world’s most pressing economic, security and environmental problems.
Aotearoa New Zealand has a disproportionately influential role in this, hosting world class space businesses and engineering firms along with its own Government space agency, established in 2016. It is also working with other countries to manage space debris, limit militarisation and understand and address climate change.
The recent volcanic eruption in Tonga also demonstrates the importance of space in responding to disasters.
Hosted by Marçal Sanmartí, Researcher, New Zealand Institute of International Affairs.
Panel speakers:
James Araci, Senior Science and Innovation Officer, British High Commission in New Zealand.
James is Senior Science and Innovation Officer at the British High Commission in New Zealand. He has previously worked as a Project Manager and Future Insights Manager at Callaghan Innovation and was an Executive Council Member of
Emeline Paat-Dahlstrom, Co-Founder and CEO, SpaceBase.
Emeline is Co-Founder and CEO of SpaceBase, a social enterprise focused on democratizing space for everyone by co-creating space ecosystems in developing and emerging countries, starting with New Zealand. Emeline is also a Co-Founder of International Space Consultants, USA and is on the management team of Ceres Robotics Inc. She joined the inaugural cohort of the Edmund Hillary Fellowship program in New Zealand in 2017. She was the former Chief Impact Officer and Executive VP of Operations at Singularity University (SU). She sits on the Board of Trustees for the 10th to the 9th Plus Foundation and is a member of the Associate Editorial Board for the New Space Journal. She is on the International Advisory Committe of the Alliance for Collaboration in the Exploration of Space and is an Institute for Space Commerce Fellow.
James Renwick, Professor of Physical Geography, Victoria University of Wellington.Te Herenga Waka.
James is a climate researcher who studies Southern Hemisphere climate variability, and the impacts of climate change on the Pacific, New Zealand and the Antarctic. He has been a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for the last 20 years, contributing to three Assessment Reports. James was awarded the Prime Minister’s 2018 prize for Science Communication, and was part of the team that won the Prime Minister’s Science Prize in 2019. He was appointed to the New Zealand Climate Change Commission in 2019.
Watch a recording of the event here
Hosted by the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs with support from the British High Commission in New Zealand.
This online event brings together space experts to discuss how international affairs are playing out beyond the Earth’s atmosphere.
The politics of outer space - Astropolitics - is rapidly growing in importance. Nation-states, businesses and other organisations are competing and cooperating in space to solve some of the world’s most pressing economic, security and environmental problems.
Aotearoa New Zealand has a disproportionately influential role in this, hosting world class space businesses and engineering firms along with its own Government space agency, established in 2016. It is also working with other countries to manage space debris, limit militarisation and understand and address climate change.
The recent volcanic eruption in Tonga also demonstrates the importance of space in responding to disasters.
Hosted by Marçal Sanmartí, Researcher, New Zealand Institute of International Affairs.
Panel speakers:
James Araci, Senior Science and Innovation Officer, British High Commission in New Zealand.
James is Senior Science and Innovation Officer at the British High Commission in New Zealand. He has previously worked as a Project Manager and Future Insights Manager at Callaghan Innovation and was an Executive Council Member of
Emeline Paat-Dahlstrom, Co-Founder and CEO, SpaceBase.
Emeline is Co-Founder and CEO of SpaceBase, a social enterprise focused on democratizing space for everyone by co-creating space ecosystems in developing and emerging countries, starting with New Zealand. Emeline is also a Co-Founder of International Space Consultants, USA and is on the management team of Ceres Robotics Inc. She joined the inaugural cohort of the Edmund Hillary Fellowship program in New Zealand in 2017. She was the former Chief Impact Officer and Executive VP of Operations at Singularity University (SU). She sits on the Board of Trustees for the 10th to the 9th Plus Foundation and is a member of the Associate Editorial Board for the New Space Journal. She is on the International Advisory Committe of the Alliance for Collaboration in the Exploration of Space and is an Institute for Space Commerce Fellow.
James Renwick, Professor of Physical Geography, Victoria University of Wellington.Te Herenga Waka.
James is a climate researcher who studies Southern Hemisphere climate variability, and the impacts of climate change on the Pacific, New Zealand and the Antarctic. He has been a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for the last 20 years, contributing to three Assessment Reports. James was awarded the Prime Minister’s 2018 prize for Science Communication, and was part of the team that won the Prime Minister’s Science Prize in 2019. He was appointed to the New Zealand Climate Change Commission in 2019.
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