Dr. Bleddyn Bowen is an expert on space warfare, international relations in outer space, and strategic theory. Dr Bowen is the author of War in Space: Strategy, Spacepower, Geopolitics, published in 2020 by Edinburgh University Press. He has also published numerous peer-reviewed articles and papers on space policy. He has advised and briefed to UK and international audiences on matters of space policy and security, including the No. 10 Downing Street Policy Unit, NATO, the European Space Agency, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Royal College of Defence Studies, the Royal United Services Institute, the US Department of Defense, the UK Ministry of Defence, The UK Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office, and the UK Parliament to name a few. He teaches on his research expertise both at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Before joining the University of Leicester, Dr Bowen was a Lecturer in Defence Studies at the Defence Studies Department, King’s College London. Prior to that, he was a Teaching Fellow at the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University, where he also studied for his PhD. In 2014, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Space Policy Institute in Washington, D.C.