Dr. Brian Weeden is a director of civil and commercial policy for the Center for Space Policy and Strategy at The Aerospace Corporation, where he serves as a senior analyst and team leader on topics that cut across policy, technology, and economics. A highly respected and connected professional with more than two decades of experience in space operations and space policy analysis, Weeden specializes in the integration and advancement of technical, policy, legal, security, commercial, and international aspects of space activities. 

Weeden is a former member and chair of the World Economic Forum’s Council on the Future of Space Technologies, a former member of the Advisory Committee on Commercial Remote Sensing (ACCRES) to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the former executive director of the Consortium for Execution of Rendezvous and Servicing Operations (CONFERS). 

Colleen Stover is Executive Producer and host of Aerospace Corporation’s long running webcast, The Space Policy Show. She is project manager, researcher, and author at The Center for Space Policy and Strategy. Her areas of research are workforce development and international policy. Before joining the Center, she was part of the Missile Defense Agency’s Space Knowledge Center. 

Prior to Aerospace she was in the field of international development with The British Council while overseas, including posts in South Korea, Egypt, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. 

Colleen has a bachelor’s degree from San Francisco State University in interdisciplinary social science, MSc from The London School of Economics & Politics in comparative politics, and a graduate certificate from Georgetown University in program management.