Speaker – Mr. Richard Buenneke
Mr. Buenneke is the deputy director for space policy in the Office of Missile Defense and Space Policy, Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation at the United States Department of State in Washington, D.C. Before joining the State Department, he was a senior policy analyst at The Aerospace Corporation, where he served as lead analyst for the National Security Space Office's work on commercial satellite protection. Buenneke earned bachelor's degrees in economics and systems engineering from the Wharton and Engineering schools of the University of Pennsylvania and masters' degrees in policy analysis from George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs and the Pardee RAND Graduate School.