Indian-American Bhavya Lal was appointed as the acting chief of staff of the US space agency. She will also assume responsibility as the senior adviser for budget and finance at NASA.
Bhavya holds bachelors and master’s degrees in nuclear engineering, and an additional master’s in technology and policy from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, along with a doctorate in public policy and public administration from George Washington University. In a career spanning over two decades, she has published more than 50 papers in various science journals and served for two consecutive terms on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Federal Advisory Committee on Commercial Remote Sensing.
Bhavya Lal was a member of the Biden Presidential Transition Agency Review Team for NASA and oversaw its transition under the Biden-Kamala administration. As co-founder of the American Nuclear Society, she also co-chairs the organisation’s policy track of annual conference on Nuclear and Emerging Technologies in Space (NETS) and is part of organising a series of seminars on space history and policy with the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.
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