Dr. Nasr Al-Sahhaf has over 30 years of practical experience in academic, scientific research, and government, serving as a trusted advisor at the PRA. Currently, Prof. Al-Sahhaf, serves as chair of the UN General Assembly backed International Moon Day, as well as regional secretary for the International Academy of Astronautics for the Middle East and Africa, MENA. An active member of the Global Expert Group on Sustainable Lunar Activities (GEGSLA). He also served as Co-Principal investigator for one of the largest projects at NASA/Ames Research Center in California, resulting in the optimum design for windows (Contributions of Windows and Isovists to the Judged Spaciousness of Simulated Crew Cabins) in what later became known as The Copula in the International Space Station (ISS), and hailed by NASA as seminal work. Dr. Al-Sahhaf represented his country at the UN Committee for Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) inShort CV2008, and established the National Space Geodesy Center in 2009, and was the principle investigator and leader for a-first-of-its-kind project in the region, the continuous operating Geodetic Network (COGNET), where 16 Continuous Operating Receiver Stations (CORS) were set up across the Arabian Peninsula as the first phase of three in a major contribution to the establishment of the International Terrestrial Reference Frame (ITRF 2018). Prof. Al-Sahhaf led a national team of engineers and technicians to successfully build an atomic clock (in-house) for the Saudi Arabian Laser Ranging Observatory (SALRO). He established in 2005 the GIS Center within the Commission for the Development of Mecca, Medinah, and the Holy Sites, and served for 2 years as its director. Prior to that he worked as Assistant Professor at the Space Research Institute in Riyadh at the King Abdulaziz City for Science & Technology (KACST). Dr. Al-Sahhaf holds several scientific, humanities, and master’s degrees including one in business management from St. Martin's, three in engineering, two from University of Washington, Seattle, as well as a PhD in geography from the University of California, Santa Barbara, 2000, and a graduate of the inaugural class of the international space university at MIT, Boston, in 1988.