Rule-Drafting Group 2 is led by Group Co-Chairs
- Ms. Elina Morozova (INTERSPUTNIK)
- Dr. Jinyuan Su (Xi'an Jiatong University)
Elina Morozova
Elina Morozova is Head of the International and Legal Service at the Intersputnik International Organization of Space Communications (intergovernmental satellite telecommunication organization headquartered in Moscow, Russia). Before joining Intersputnik in 2005, she was working at the legal department of a major Russian telecommunications company. Specializing in the field of international space and telecommunications law, she focuses on issues related to the use of the radio frequency spectrum and satellite orbits, operation of geostationary and non-geostationary satellites, provision of access to the satellite capacity and satellite telecommunications services. Elina Morozova earned two university degrees in international law and world economy from the All-Russian Academy of Foreign Trade under the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation and holds an LL.M in International Business Law from the University of Manchester. She is a member of the Russian Association of International Law, heads the working group for the revision of the regulatory instruments of the Regional Commonwealth in the Field of Communications (RCC) and serves as Director on the Board of the International Institute of Space Law (IISL).
Jinyuan Su
Jinyuan Su is currently a Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong University School of Law, China. His research interests lie in outer space law, the law of the sea, and international aviation law. Dr. Su holds a PhD in International Law from Xi’an Jiaotong University. He was an Erin J.C. Arsenault Fellow (2014-2015) at the McGill Institute of Air and Space Law, a visiting research fellow (2009-2010) at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge, and a visiting scholar (2008-2009) at School of Law, King’s College London. Dr. Su is a member of Governance Group of the Space Security Index (SSI), a lead drafter for the McGill project of Global Space Governance, and a member (2016-2018) of the Global Future Council on Space Technologies of the World Economic Forum (WEF).
The Core Experts in Group 2 (in alphabetical order by surname):
- Dr. Roy Balleste (St Thomas University, USA)
- Cpt. Jérémie Ayadi (French Joint Space Command)
- Dr. Rada Popova (University of Cologne, Institute of Air and Space Law)
- Ms. Deborah Housen-Couriel (Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center at Tel Aviv University and Haifa University’s Law Faculty)
- Mr. Peter Hulsroj (Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organisation)
Dr. Roy Balleste
Roy Balleste is Professor of Law and Law Library Director at St. Thomas University School of Law in Miami Gardens, Florida, USA. He completed his doctorate degree (J.S.D.) in Intercultural Human Rights, analyzing internet governance policy, including its history, actors, and institutions. While completing the LL.M. thesis at the Institute of Air and Space Law, McGill University, Balleste researched and wrote about the crossroads of cybersecurity, rules of engagement and space Law. He was also a recipient of the Nicolas Mateesco Matte Prize. Professor Balleste teaches internet governance law and policy and cybersecurity law and policy. He has concentrated his scholarship and advocacy in the areas associated with the regulatory structure of the Internet, cybersecurity, outer space law, and cybersecurity in outer space. Balleste is a member of the International Institute of Space Law (IISL), including its Cyberspace Law Working Group. In November of 2017, Balleste participated at the United Nations High-level Forum on Space as a driver for socio-economic sustainable development. In his presentation, Balleste addressed the connection of cybersecurity and satellite communications. In particular, he commented on the perils associated with the utilization of cyberspace as a weapon. Balleste also participated in the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (UN IGF) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2007 and Vilnius, Lithuania 2010. In October of 2012, Balleste participated—at the invitation of the U.S. Air Force Research Institute—in the second cyberpower conference at the Maxwell’s Officer Training School. Professor Balleste is a member of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers’ Noncommercial Users Stakeholder Group (ICANN-NCSG) and the Noncommercial Users Constituency (NCUC) of the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO). Most recently, Balleste earned a certificate in managing cybersecurity risk from Harvard University and a certificate in blockchain strategy from the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.
Cpt. Jérémie Ayadi
Captain (OF-2) Jérémie Ayadi is currently working as the senior legal advisor to the French Joint Space Command (FJSC). Jérémie enlisted with the French Air Force in 2008 as an administrative officer. He was first assigned as a junior legal advisor to the French Air Defense and Air Operations Command where he was responsible for the negotiation of bilateral and multilateral instruments, in support of military training and real-life operations. He was successively deployed in Germany, Afghanistan and Chad where he provided expertise on the law of armed conflict and air targeting operations. He graduated from the Political Sciences Institut of Strasbourg, University of Aix-Marseille and Institute of Space and Telecommunications Law.
Ms. Rada Popova
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Ms. Deborah Housen-Couriel
Deborah is a senior research fellow at the Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center at Tel Aviv University, the Herzliya Institute for Counter-Terrorism, and the Minerva Center at Haifa University’s Law Faculty. She teaches courses on cybersecurity law and regulation at the former two, with a focus on the interaction among public international law, domestic legal systems and contemporary technological developments in cyberspace. A member of the Israeli bar, she has an independent legal practice specializing in Israeli and global cybersecurity law, also serving as Special Counsel to the New York law firm Zeichner, Ellman and Krause. Deborah is currently serving on the Advisory Board for the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise. She was a member of the International Group of Experts that drafted the Tallin 2 manual on state activity in cyberspace; and of the ILA’s Study Group on Cybersecurity, Terrorism and International Law. In 2010-11, she co-chaired the National Cyber Initiative’s Policy and Regulation Committee, under the aegis of the Prime Minister’s Office; and served as a member of Israel’s National Cyber Bureau’s public committee on the cyber professions. Between 2007-2014, Deborah was Director of the Wexner Foundation's Israel Fellowship Program, which develops public leadership at the highest levels in Israel and the US together with the Harvard Kennedy School. Prior to these positions, Deborah was Director of the Department of Regulation and International Treaties and served in the Director-General’s Bureau of the Israeli Ministry of Communications (1994-2005). While at the Ministry she served on delegations to the WTO, the ITU, the Oslo Accords negotiations, and those for the peace treaty with Jordan. She received her B.A. in History and Anthropology summa cum laude from Wellesley College and the Ècole de Sciences Politiques in Paris; her LL.B. and LL.M (cum laude) from Hebrew University; and an MC-MPA from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government as a Wexner Foundation Fellow in 2000-2001.
Mr. Peter Hulsroj
Peter Hulsroj is currently working as a senior legal consultant at the Provisional Technical Secretariat of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organisation (CTBTO). Before this Peter was the Director of the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI) in Vienna, Austria, following-on from an assignment as the Director of Legal Affairs and External Relations of the European Space Agency, ESA. Peter has also been a practising attorney in Copenhagen, a contracts officer at ESA in the Netherlands, and the Chief of Legal Affairs of CTBTO. He was educated at the University of Copenhagen and Harvard Law School. Peter has written a number of articles on international human rights, public international law, international governance, space and space law, and is the author of two books, one in the social science domain, The Principle of Proportionality, and another on philosophy and ethics, What If We Don't Die? The Morality of Immortality. Peter furthermore writes a blog on social and philosophical issues, www.whatifwedontdie.com and was during his ESPI time the author of a blog on space policy.