Presenter: The Global Quest for Space Leadership and Competitiveness

Kristi J. Bradford is a senior member of the technical staff in The Aerospace Corporation’s Space Architecture Department, where she performs strategic technical assessments, cross-program evaluation, and space enterprise analyses for civil and national security customers. She recently authored a paper for Aerospace's Center for Space Policy and Strategy, " A Model for Space Sector Growth: A Luxembourg Case Study". Prior to Aerospace, Bradford worked at Planetary Resources and Columbia University conducting instrument systems engineering for ground-based, aircraft-based, balloon-based, and space-based scientific instrumentation. Bradford holds a bachelor’s degree in astrophysics, earth & planetary sciences from Harvard University and a master’s degree in exploration systems design (systems engineering) from Arizona State University.