Martin Smye-Rumsby

Martin leads space business winning for BAE Systems Digital Intelligence in the Middle East, Türkiye, India, and Africa.  He has spent over two decades in defence and space roles, working both in and with start-ups, aerospace primes, central government, the military, and universities.  Martin commissioned into the UK Royal Air Force and subsequently worked in procurement and R&D at the UK Ministry of Defence and UK Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, respectively.  Interspersed with roles at an Earth Observation start-up and developing a commercial space park, Martin has cultivated a rounded perspective on the space domain from all stages of the capability lifecycle, thinking critically about the economic and security future of space.  Martin volunteers as Chairman of the Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society.  He read international relations with management at Aberdeen University, and later an interdisciplinary masters at the International Space University in Strasbourg.  He is the recipient of competitive scholarships from the UK Royal Air Force, European Space Agency, and UK Space Agency.