Angeliki Kapoglou is an international expert in commercial space with a focus in lunar exploration, innovation and future studies. For four years, she has been part of ESA’s Human and Robotic Exploration Strategy team, assessing future lunar surface exploration scenarios and developing European priorities and activities for sustainable lunar development. Angeliki has also contributed to ESA’s space resources strategy, ESA’s LEO/Post-ISS commercialisation strategy, the Moonlight initiative (Lunar Communications & Navigation); and the newly established SOLARIS team, exploring the feasibility of Space-based Solar Power for Net Zero and energy security goals. Passionate about lunar governance and coordination issues, Angeliki is also a fellow with the Open Lunar Foundation and a convener of the Moon Dialogs Initiative. Before that, Angeliki spent two years at one of the world’s leading centres for innovation, the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (the d.school) at Stanford University. In the past, she also worked at CERN and NASA’s JPL Innovation Foundry. Given her background in international research centers, she has been exposed to the complex interplay between science and politics and one of her favorite things is bringing together non-traditional partners to do multi-stakeholder initiatives — especially those involving governmental entities and policy makers.