Author: Alyssa Goessler

Alyssa Goessler is a third-year graduate student pursuing a dual master's degree in global policy and Middle Eastern studies at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin (UT). Prior to joining the UT community, Alyssa worked in foreign policy in New York City—first at the Mission of Jordan to the United Nations and thereafter in the Executive Office of the Council on Foreign Relations. Alyssa is currently a research intern with CSIS’s Aerospace Security Project, and she also serves as a policy officer of the Space Generation Advisory Council’s Advocacy and Policy Platform. She is a senior Brumley fellow at the Strauss Center for International Security and Law’s Space Security, Safety, and Sustainability Program. Her thesis research focuses on the role of emerging spacefaring nations in the space sustainability agenda, with an emphasis on the United Arab Emirates.