Xavier Pasco, PhD in Political Science from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, is Director of the Foundation for Strategic Research. He has authored numerous research reports on civil and military space activities for national and European public bodies. His academic work has formed the basis for nearly a hundred articles in national and international journals and several books. The most recent, ‘Le nouvel âge spatial : de la Guerre froide au New Space’ (The New Space Age: From the Cold War to New Space), was published in April 2017 by CNRS Editions.

He has been an Associate Research Fellow at the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University (Washington D.C., United States) since 1994; Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Space Policy (Elsevier Science) since 2002; elected member of the International Academy of Astronautics and appointed in 2016 as a member of the Advisory Committee of the Secure World Foundation (United States).