Dr Bleddyn Bowen is Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Leicester, specialising in space policy and warfare, the military uses of outer space, and strategic thought. He is the author of Original Sin: Power, Technology and War in Outer Space (Hurst, 2022), as well as War in Space: Strategy, Spacepower, Geopolitics (Edinburgh University Press, 2020). He has advised on space policy and strategy for institutions including the UK Parliament and Government, the European Space Agency, the US Space Force, and US Government. He is the founder and co-convenor of the Astropolitics Working Group at the British International Studies Association, an Associate Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute, and Co-Convenor of the CSSAH Space Studies Working Group at the University of Leicester.