Dr Sarah-Jane Gill
Biography
Dr Gill is the Director of Championing Space at the UK Space Agency, responsible for overseeing the Agency’s inspiration and outreach activities, its international relationships and ESA policy teams, and leading on how we engage with audiences on the growing importance of space.
SJ has almost a decade of experience at the UK Space Agency where her roles have focused on bringing together international, cross-sectoral, and cross-government teams to establish shared strategic objectives. Having represented the UK at the UN Committee on the Peaceful uses of Outer Space, to the European Union, and in 2022, leading the International Disaster Charter, her focus has been on promoting wider government ambitions and showcasing UK innovation around the world, supporting economic growth.
Alongside her international roles, she was worked across the fields of satellite navigation, space law and regulation, space domain awareness and on ESA strategy and policy.
Prior to joining the UK Space Agency at the start of 2018, she worked as a geologist in the diamond mining industry, and later with the Natural History Museum, developing ESA’s Sample Analogue Collection of terrestrial materials that could be used to simulate the geology of the Moon, Mars, the moons of Mars, and c-type asteroids. She holds qualifications in planetary science and project management, and a doctorate in Geology from the University of London.
Director of Championing Space
The director oversees the UK Space Agency’s international relations, inspiration and outreach activities and leads on how we engage with audiences on the growing importance of space.
Director of Championing Space
The director oversees the UK Space Agency’s international relations, inspiration and outreach activities and leads on how we engage with audiences on the growing importance of space.