Laetitia Cesari

Dr Laetitia Cesari is a Fellow at UNIDIR’s Space Security Programme and Weapons of Mass Destruction Programme. She is also a researcher and a legal practitioner working on the law and policy of new technologies and outer space. Her research interests focus on space law and policy, focusing on security and safety aspects, space traffic management and space situational awareness, as well as the nexus between space and cybersecurity. Prior to joining UNIDIR, she worked in the space industry, specifically telecommunications. Before that, she had the opportunity to support the work of national governments on defence and space.

Laetitia holds a doctorate in law focused on the legal aspects of cybersecurity of space systems from the University of Luxembourg, where she received Best PhD Award and Woman Student in Cyber Award from the Cercle des Femmes de la Cyber Sécurité. She has been a visiting scholar at the International Institute of Air and Space Law at Leiden University and at the University of New South Wales, Canberra – Space. She also holds a certificate from the Hague Academy of International Law, a master’s degree in space law and telecommunications from the University of Luxembourg, a master’s degree in aeronautics law from the University Toulouse 1 Capitole and a master’s degree in business law from the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Laetitia speaks French, English and Italian.