Speakers

Speaker profile

Colin commenced his role as Executive Director of UKspace – the industry-led trade association for the UK’s space sector – in July 2024, having joined as Head of Policy in June 2022.

Prior to this Colin was Head of Local Growth Strategy at the UK Space Agency, with responsibility for developing space clusters across the country, fostering university-business collaborations and developing initiatives to support space start-ups and scale-ups. Whilst at the UK Space Agency, he also co-led work to understand and mitigate the impacts of Covid on the space sector and led the UK Space Agency’s Interim Strategy Team – working across Government to support the establishment of the new National Space Council and initiate work on the National Space Strategy.

Earlier in his career, Colin was involved in establishing the International Space Innovation Centre and Satellite Applications Catapult.