Dr Sarah Jane Gill
Chief of Staff. UK Space Agency
Speaker profile
In early 2024 she took up the position of Chief of Staff for the UK Space Agency, having previously held roles as the Head of ESA Policy, and the Head of International Relations. She has worked in the fields of satellite navigation, space law and regulation, space domain awareness and on ESA strategy and policy. Prior to joining the UK Space Agency at the start of 2018, she worked as a geologist in the diamond mining industry in Namibia, and later with the Natural History Museum, developing ESA’s Sample Analogue Collection of terrestrial materials that could be used to simulate the geology of the Moon, Mars, the moons of Mars, and c-type asteroids. She holds qualifications in planetary science and project management, and a doctorate in Geology from the University of London