Professor Akhil Rao is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Middlebury College who has recently been the Acting Chief Economist in NASA's Office of Technology, Policy and Strategy. Professor Rao is going to speak about "how government actors could vs do shape behaviors in space."  He will be discussing several space policy questions to illuminate the gap between how governmental actors are influencing behavior in space and how they could do so in his opinion, such as policy questions around space constellations and debris. 

This is part of the public speaker sessions for IILJ Colloquium: space and Planetary Law & Governance.