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Mariel Borowitz, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology and head of the Nunn School Program on International Affairs, Science, and Technology. Her research deals with international space policy issues, focusing particularly on global developments related to remote-sensing satellites and challenges to space security and sustainability.
Her book, Open Space: The Global Effort for Open Access to Environmental Satellite Data (MIT Press), examines trends in the development of data-sharing policies governing Earth observing satellites, as well as interactions with the growing commercial remote sensing sector. Her work has been published in Science, Strategic Studies Quarterly, Space Policy, Astropolitics and New Space. Her research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Defense and National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Borowitz is also currently detailed to the U.S. Office of Space Commerce in a half-time capacity as the director of international space situational awareness engagement. In this role, she focuses on the development and implementation of an approach to international coordination on space situational awareness and space traffic coordination. She also works directly with the team developing the Traffic Coordination System for Space, which will provide space safety services to civil and commercial users around the world.
Borowitz previously completed a detail as a policy analyst for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., from 2016 to 2018. In 2022, she testified to the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics in a hearing titled “Space Situational Awareness: Guiding the Transition to a Civil Capability.” Borowitz earned a doctorate in public policy at the University of Maryland, a master’s degree in international science and technology policy from George Washington University, and a bachelor of science degree in aerospace engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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