Alexander Soucek works at the European Space Agency on international data policy and legal aspects of earth observation.

He has done extensive research in the field of space law and policy at the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University inWashington, DC, the NASA Flight Center in nearby Greenbelt, Maryland, the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs in Vienna, Austria, and the German Space Operations Center near Munich. He also worked as scientific assistant in international law at the University of Salzburg. He is a member of the European Center for Space Law (ECSL), editor of the Space Law Newsletter Austria, and project leader of a variety of space outreach programs, among those Austria’s largest Youth Space Competition to date, 'spacecity salzburg' (2001).

Soucek studied law in Salzburg, Austria and is currently working on his Ph.D. He previously earned a Master’s degree in Space Studies from the International Space University in Strasbourg, France.

• Galileo and GMES: Europe's Symbols of Independence in Space (June 29, 2006)
• Conference Report: Space and Security (July 20, 2004)