Steering Committee
2007 Planetary Defense Conference
March 5-8, 2007
The Cloyd Heck Marvin Center
George Washington University
Washington, D.C.
| V. Adimurthy | Associate Director, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Indian Space Research Organization, India |
| William Ailor (General Chair) |
Director, Center of Orbital and Reentry Debris Studies, The Aerospace Corporation, US |
| Mark Barrera | Engineering Specialist, The Aerospace Corporation, US |
| Ivan Bekey | President, Bekey Designs, Inc., US |
| Elizabeth Carter | American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, US |
| Andrea Carusi | INAF-IASF, Area Ricerca Tor Vergata, Italy |
| Clark Chapman | Southwest Research Institute, US |
| A.C. Charania | Senior Futurist, SpaceWorks Engineering, Inc. (SEI), US |
| Lee Clarke | Associate Professor, Rutgers University, US |
| Richard Crowther | Head, Space Engineering & Technology, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK |
| Minoo Dastoor | Senior Advisor, NASA Headquarters/ESMD, US |
| David Dearborn | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US |
| Louis Friedman | Executive Director, The Planetary Society, US |
| Alan Harris | Senior Research Scientist, Space Science Institute, US |
| Albert Harrison | Department of Psychology, University of California/Davis, US |
| Kathleen Hollingsworth | Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, US |
| Lindley Johnson | NEO Observation Program Scientist, NASA Headquarters Space Mission Directorate, US |
| John Logsdon | Director, Space Policy Institute, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, US |
| Ed Lu | NASA Astronaut, member of B612 Foundation, NASA Johnson Space Center, US |
| David Lynch (Technical Chair) |
Senior Scientist, The Aerospace Corporation, US |
| Colin McInnes | Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Strathclyde, UK |
| David Morrison | Senior Scientist, NASA/Ames Research Center, US |
| Steve Ostro | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, US |
| Glenn E. Peterson | Section Manager, The Aerospace Corporation, US |
| Gianmarco Radice | Lecturer, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK |
| Rusty Schweickart | Chairman, NEO Committee, Association of Space Explorers; B612 Foundation; Former Astronaut; US |
| Lee Valentine | Executive Vice President, Space Studies Institute, US |
| Giovanni Valsecchi | Senior Scientist, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Italy |
| Massimiliano Vasile | Lecturer, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK |
| Donald Yeomans | Manager, NASA Near Earth Object Program Office, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, US |
| Anatoly Zaitsev | Director General, Planetary Defense Center, Russia |
