Dr. Timiebi Aganaba
Dr. Timiebi Aganaba is a Space Law and Governance expert and thought leader, with 15 years sector experience gained in academia, government, non profit, think tank, law firm and consulting industries in 5 countries. Timiebi is an assistant professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society with a courtesy appointment at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, USA. Timiebi was a post-doctoral fellow and fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) based in Waterloo, Ontario Canada where she focused on environmental governance, and participated in a Canada-India Track 1.5 Dialogue. She was an observer at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Bonn and Marrakech and It was at CIGI that she also honed her skills at utilizing social and multimedia to communicate her messages. Timiebi was Executive Director of the World Space Week Association coordinating the global response to the UN 1999 declaration that World Space Week should be celebrated Oct 4-10 annually. She is currently on the Advisory Board for the Space Generation Advisory Council supporting the UN Programme on Space Applications. She is also on the Advisory Board of World View Enterprises and the SETI institute. Other positions include 4 years as a space industry consultant for the leading space analyst firm in Montreal, Canada where Timiebi led a pipeline of commercialization studies for the Canadian Space Agency and led the socio aspects of a socioeconomic assessment of the Canadian space sector.