WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM GLOBAL FUTURE COUNCIL ON SPACE
Dr. Minoo Rathnasabapathy has been an expert to the Global Future Council on Space since 2016. The World Economic Forum’s Network of Global Future Councils is a global multidisciplinary knowledge network grouped in expertise-based thematic councils. The Global Future Council on Space explores critical challenges for the sector, such as the need for new governance frameworks like Space Traffic Management, a greater understanding of the sector’s socio-economic impact such as environment and climate monitoring as well as the future of space exploration.
INTERNATIONAL ASTRONAUTICAL FEDERATION (2018 – 2021)
Dr. Rathnasabapathy was elected as a Vice President of the IAF Bureau, serving her 3 year term between 2018-2021. As the youngest elected Vice President in IAF history, Dr. Rathnasabapathy oversaw the Education and Workforce Development portfolio of the IAF, implementing numerous initiatives during her tenure, most notably the IAF Launchpad Mentorship Programme.
Dr. Rathnasabapathy has served on the Via Satellite Advisory Board since 2017. The Executive Advisory Board helps to shape the content for Via Satellite. Via Satellite provides essential news and expert business analysis on the global commercial communications satellite industry, including current and evolving applications, infrastructure issues, technology, and business and regulatory developments around the world.
Dr. Rathnasabapathy is a Fellow at the Aurelia Institute, where she joined Aurelia’s Gateway Program, Horizon 2022. In collaboration with Mission: AstroAccess, this was the program’s first mission to enable fliers across diverse communities and organizations to conduct research on a zero gravity parabolic flight. Aurelia Institute’s continuing mission is to develop the technologies, communities, and policies that will help us scale humanity’s horizons from early space stations in LEO to the fullness of an interplanetary civilization
Dr. Rathnasabapathy served as an expert advisor to the One X One Cohort 2020. Stemming from a collaboration between Swarovski, United Nations Office of Partnerships, and The Slow Factory Foundation, One X One aims to address Circularity, Equity and Renewable Technology through the lens of design, timeless beauty and empathy. The program was created to pair a scientist with a designer and support them in inventing a new way of creating, one that is Good for the Earth and Good for the People.