Alyson Claire Decker is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s GeoTech Center. With her legal practice, Decker has worked in several law firms, including an international law firm and several boutique law firms. Her practice also elevated her from being vice president of legal affairs for a group of companies with an annual revenue of over $100 million to opening her own law firm to becoming a counsel at a national trial-focused firm.  

Decker has always had a passion for law and space. She is now traversing the space frontier of the law as she works with aerospace companies and organizations of all sizes, providing analysis, interpretation, and guidance for international, national, and regional space laws and regulations. She also develops actionable strategy solutions, practices, and policies. Decker has published numerous times and presented at several international space conferences, symposiums, and conventions on various legal space issues such as jurisdiction, employment relationships, creating a space legacy for future generations, sustainability, and space governance systems. Decker is an experienced litigator, general counsel, space attorney, adjunct law professor, keynote speaker, board member, executive, and employment law guru.