Director of the Board on Research Data and Information at the National Academies & the Inter Academy Panel on International Issues (IAP) Program on Digital Knowledge Resources and Infrastructure in Developing Countries

Director of the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), part of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and the World Data Center for Human Interactions in the Environment of the International Council for Science (ICSU)

the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Space Law & a professor of space law and remote sensing law and the Director of the National Center for Remote Sensing, Air, and Space Law at the University of Mississippi School of Law

the Interdisciplinary Centre for Law and ICT of the K.U.Leuven