Ali Stickings is the Business Manager for Defence Space at Frazer-Nash Consultancy, leading on strategy, business development and client relationships across space defence, government and industry. Prior to this, she was Research Fellow for Space Policy and Security in the Military Sciences team at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies, where she remains an Associate Fellow. Ali’s expertise covers international space policy, military space programmes, space warfare, counterspace capabilities, Space Situational Awareness, arms control and the intersection of space and missile defence. She has written for a variety of publications, regularly provides expert commentary to the media, is a frequent speaker at international conferences and has acted in an advisory capacity to the UK and US governments.