S. Sita Sonty is a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s GeoTech Center and partner and managing director for aerospace and defense in the AlixPartners AD&A Americas group. She served as a career foreign service officer with the US Department of State and as an executive at SpaceX and Raytheon. Prior to AlixPartners, Sonty also served as the chief executive officer of Space Tango. Before that, she was the global lead for commercial space and a federal core member at Boston Consulting Group.

Earlier in her career, Sonty held roles in Sierra Nevada Corporation, SpaceX, Raytheon, and served in senior roles at the US Department of State. She graduated with distinction from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies; studied at Jussieu in Paris in 1998 and the Centre des Etudes Maghrebines en Tunisie in 2001; and graduated magna cum laude from Amherst College in Political Science and Economics. Sonty’s native tongue is Telugu, while she also speaks Hindi, French, Arabic, Croatian, and Urdu. Currently, Sonty serves as executive board member for Women in Aerospace, the Johns Hopkins University President’s Alumni Council, and the Washington Leadership Program.