Agenda

Dr Sarah Jane FOX's research relates to transport modes and systems and related movements (particularly from a law/policy/IR perspective). She specialises in air and space, and advancing technologies (such as autonomous and connected systems - which are enabled and supported by other technologies in space - e.g. GNSS (PNT). Her research relates to the challenges, opportunities and risks of advancing technologies. Dr Fox's research also encompasses virtual movements (cyber-space).

In 2015-2016, Dr Fox achieved a highly prestigious Fulbright Commission (12-months research) scholarship to the U.S., which was also supported by Lloyd's of London. She continues to research extensively in the above areas - which also intersects across safety, security and governance/framework aspects, and she has presented her findings to the UN, EU and Council of Europe, as well as other bodies and organisations across the world. 

Dr Fox is also an advocator/mentor for the UN, supporting women and girls (access to schooling and technology) and she also writes across the area of preventing violence against women and girls (including in the cyber domain).

Sarah's PhD is in law and policy and relates to the above - namely movement/transport.

Dominic has worked on the European Union’s Galileo satellite navigation system for more than 20 years, firstly covering frequency aspects for the UK government, before moving to Brussels to work directly on the Galileo programme for the European Commission.  He is now the Frequency Manager for the EU Space Programme, which includes Galileo and EGNOS, Copernicus (the EU’s Earth observation system), and the new global secure connectivity component, IRIS.  In that capacity he has worked extensively at the International Telecommunication Union, particularly on satellite navigation topics discussed at the various World Radiocommunication Conferences.  Dominic has also been an active contributor to the work of the International Committee for GNSS, where he represents Galileo for the European Union.  In an earlier life he designed electronic equipment for the ATLAS experiment at CERNS’s Large Hadron Collider. He holds a Masters in Spacecraft Technology and Satellite Communications from University College London.

A senior space engineer in the National Space Science Agency (NSSA) - Kingdom of Bahrain, with a master’s degree in engineering systems and management with Space concentration, and bachelor’s degree in computer engineering. As part of Bahrain Space Team, she contributed to the development of several CubeSats including Bahrain’s first CubeSat Light-1 and DhabiSat. Her area of expertise includes CubeSat development, Risk Management, Onboard computer development and Failure Detection Isolation and Recovery of CubeSats. That expertise is carried over in the development of the Bahraini CubeSat, such that new innovative technologies will be developed and tested in space.

Mr. Rick Hamilton is a career Master Chief Coast Guardsman who served in uniform from 1975 to 2003 in navigation, buoy positioning, ship handling, illegal migrant and drug interdiction operations and search planning. Service awards include three Commendation Medals for various Coast Guard operations throughout his career, a NASA Group Achievement Award for service to the World Radiocommunication Conference of 2000 and a Coast Guard Meritorious Service Medal.
Returning to the Coast Guard in 2008 as a government civilian employee, Rick Hamilton is now the GPS Information Analysis Team Lead at the Coast Guard’s Navigation Center. In this capacity he manages the working day-to-day relationship with the Air Force Second Space Operations Squadron (2 SOPS) for the flow of GPS operational information destined for daily public dissemination. He oversees the resolution of GPS disruption reports and inquiries from around the world as the U.S. Government’s primary point of contact for the world’s non- aviation, civil users of GPS. He is the Executive Secretariat for the Civil GPS Service Interface Committee managing and coordinating the Committee’s meetings throughout the year as an outreach program for the U.S. Department of Transportation to brief the public on the status of GPS programs.