Dr Bleddyn Bowen is a lecturer in International Relations at the University of Leicester, UK. He is an expert in space warfare, astropolitics, the military uses of space, has published in several academic journals, with a book titled War in Space: Strategy, Spacepower, Geopolitics coming out with Edinburgh University Press in 2020. He is a recognised international expert in his field and has appeared in numerous media outlets and provided oral testimony to the UK House of Commons Exiting the EU Select Committee on the impact of Brexit on the Galileo project. He can be found on Twitter via the handle @bleddb.