Honorary Representative's Biography
Honorary Representative Mr. Christopher Bryan Robert Stott, Bachelor of Arts with Honours in American Studies, Politics and Government (UKC), Diploma (U.C.S.D.), Master of Space Studies (ISU), Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (FRAS), Member of the Manx Astronomical Society (MAS); Member of the International Institute of Space Law (IISL); Member of the Society of Satellite Professionals International (SSPI).
Chris Stott was also appointed Honorary Representative of the Isle of Man to the Space Community by the Island's Chief Minister and Council of Ministers in September 2003. Mr. C. B. R. (Chris) Stott is President and Chief Executive Officer of ManSat LLC. Originator of the ManSat concept, Chris is also ManSat's co-founder.
Chris left his position as Director of International Commercialization & Sales with Lockheed Martin Space Operations' $3.4 billion Consolidated Space Operations Contract (CSOC) in June 2000 to found ManSat Limited. (April 2000 FORBES article: http://www.forbes.com/forbes/00/0417/6509104a.htm).
Chris came to Lockheed Martin from the Boeing Space & Communications Company in Huntington Beach, California, where he worked in International Business Development for the Delta Launch Vehicle program.
Chris has also worked extensively in British and American politics as an Office Manager, Staff Aide, and Speech Writer in the British House of Commons and House of Lords, as an Intern in the US Senate and White House and as a political aide on two US Presidential Campaigns.
Prior to his work in the space industry, Chris was Special Projects Director with Life Education International, a children's health education and drug prevention program and United Nations Non Governmental Organization (N.G.O.).
Educated at Millfield School in Somerset, England, Chris attended the University of Kent, Canterbury where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts Degree, with Honours, in American Studies Politics and Government. While at Canterbury, Chris also received a Diploma from the University of California, San Diego where he studied International Relations at the University of California and Marine Policy and at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography.
Chris holds his Masters Degree in Space Studies from the International Space University (ISU), having graduated from the first class of ISU's MSS program in Strasbourg in July 1996. In addition, Chris is a Member of ISU's Board of Trustees and Governing Membership, and is a Guest Lecturer at the University. He is an Adjunct Professor of Space Law at the University of Houston Clear Lake in Clear Lake, Texas, and a lecturer in Space Law for the International Space School Foundation of Houston, Texas.
Chris is a published Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and an invited member of the International Institute of Space Law.
He is the co-author of Britain and Europe's first work on space privatization and commercialization, "A Space For Enterprise; the aerospace industries after government monopoly", Stott & Watson, Adam Smith Institute, London, 1994. ISBN #873712 48 0.
Chris was a founder member of the British Space Education Council and remains active in supporting space education initiatives.
Mr. Stott can be reached via: chris.stott@mansat.com