Joan Johnson-Freese

chair, National Security Strategy, Naval War College

Joan Johnson-Freese is chair of the Department of National Security Strategy at the Naval War College and a lecturer at Harvard Extension School. Dr. Johnson-Freese's research has focused largely on space programs and policies, looking specifically at technology transfer and export, missile defense, transparency in space and regional development, transformation, and globalization. She is the recent author of *Heavenly Ambitions: America's Quest to Dominate Space*.