Left to right: Brian Weeden (Director of Program Planning, Secure World Foundation), Rania Toukebri (Project Manager, Airbus Defence and Space), Joanne Wheeler (Managing Partner, Alden Legal),Andrey Shabalin (Counsellor, Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva), and Sarah Erickson, Research Assistant, Space Security & WMD Programmers UNIDIR.
Left to right: Brian Weeden (Director of Program Planning, Secure World Foundation), Rania Toukebri (Project Manager, Airbus Defence and Space), Joanne Wheeler (Managing Partner, Alden Legal),Andrey Shabalin (Counsellor, Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva), and Sarah Erickson, Research Assistant, Space Security & WMD Programmers UNIDIR. Image credit: UNIDIR.

The United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research recently held the Outer Space Security conference which included a panel on Mapping Space Threats, Risk and Challenges with key participants coming from locations such as the United States and Russia.

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Is SpaceQ's Associate Editor as well as a business and science reporter, researcher and consultant. She recently received her Ph.D. from the University of North Dakota and is communications Instructor instructor at Algonquin College.