Prof. Dr. Kai-Uwe Schrogl is the Special Advisor for Political Affairs in the European Space Agency (ESA HQ in Paris). Between 2019 and 2022 he was seconded to the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy to support the German EU Council Presidency in Berlin. Before, he was the Chief Strategy Officer of ESA. From 2007 to 2011 he was the Director of the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI) in Vienna, the leading European think tank for space policy. Prior to this, he was the Head of the Corporate Development and External Relations Department in the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Cologne.

He has been a delegate to numerous international forums and has served from 2014 to 2016 as chair of the Legal Subcommittee of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, the highest body for space law making, comprising 73 Member States. He also was chair of various European and global committees (as the ESA International Relations Committee and two plenary working groups of the UNCOPUOS Legal Subcommittee, the one on the launching State and the other on registration practice, both leading to UN General Assembly Resolutions). He presented, respectively testified, at hearings of the European Parliament and the U.S. House of Representatives. From 2022 to 2024 he served as Co-Chair of the WEF Global Future Council for Space.

Kai-Uwe Schrogl is the President of the International Institute of Space Law (IISL), the professional association of space law experts from more than 50 countries, Member of the International Academy of Astronautics (recently chairing its Commission on policy, economics and regulations) as well as Corresponding Member of the French Air and Space Academy. He holds a doctorate degree in political science and lectures international technology policy as an Honorary Professor at Tübingen University, Germany.

Kai-Uwe Schrogl has written or co-edited 17 books and more than 140 articles, reports and papers in the fields of space policy and law as well as telecommunications policy. He launched and edited until 2011 the “Yearbook on Space Policy” and the book series “Studies in Space Policy” both published by ESPI at SpringerWienNewYork. He sits on editorial boards of various international journals in the field of space policy and law (as Space Policy, Zeitschrift für Luft- und Weltraumrecht, Studies in Space Law/Nijhoff; previously also Acta Astronautica).