Christopher Bryan Robert "Chris" Stott (born July 1969) is a Manx-born American space

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. He is best known for co-founding the regulatory and orbital frequency services company, ManSat, Odyssey Moon, and the

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. ManSat was covered in Forbes magazine in 2001. In 2010 he was named Celton Isle of Man Business Man of the Year. Christopher Stott was born in July 1969, in Douglas, Isle of Man. He is married to Nicole P. Stott, an American astronaut. They have one son. They live near St. Petersburg, Florida.

Education

Educated at

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in Somerset, England, Chris Stott attended the

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, Canterbury, where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts Degree, with Honours, in American Studies, Politics and Government. After matriculation from Canterbury, Stott received a Diploma from the

University of California, San Diego The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego or colloquially, UCSD) is a public land-grant research university in San Diego, California. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego is t ...

, where he studied International Relations and Marine Policy (at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography). Stott also holds a master's degree in Space Studies from the

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(ISU).

Career

Early in his career, Stott worked extensively in British and American politics as an office manager in the

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, and as an Intern in the

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and as a political aide on two US Presidential Campaigns. Stott also served as Special Projects Director with Life Education International, a children's health education and drug prevention program and United Nations

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(NGO). He has also taught international space law at the and lectured at the . Chris Stott was previously Director of International Commercialization & Sales with Lockheed Martin Space Operations' $3.4 billion Consolidated Space Operations Contract with

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. He came to Lockheed Martin from the

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Space & Communications Company in Huntington Beach, California, where he worked International Business Development for the Delta Launch Vehicle program.

Board membership

Chris Stott is currently Chairman and CEO of ManSat, a Main Board Director of Odyssey Moon Ltd. Stott is also the Honorary Representative of the

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Government to the Space Community. He is a member of the

(ISU)'s board of trustees and is a former Co-Chair of the School of Business and Management at the University. Stott was a founding member of the British Space Education Council and remains active in supporting space education initiatives. Stott is also a Founding Trustee of the ISU

and the Manna Energy Foundation, working to bring renewable energy to developing nations via micro economics. He is an honorary member of the Manx Astronomical Association and of the

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. A

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, he is part of the

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and

Tory Reform Group The Tory Reform Group (TRG) is a pressure group associated with the British Conservative Party that works to promote "modern, progressive Conservatism... economic efficiency and social justice" and "a Conservatism that supports equality, divers ...

. Stott is also part of the

International Institute of Space Law The International Astronautical Federation (IAF) is an international space advocacy organization based in Paris, and founded in 1951 as a non-governmental organization to establish a dialogue between scientists around the world and to lay t ...

and the

. Stott serves on the board of the

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, the Challenger Centers, and the Conrad Foundation. Stott co-authored the

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work 'A Space For Enterprise: the aerospace industries after government monopoly'.STOTT, C. ''A Space For Enterprise: the aerospace industries after government monopoly'', Adam Smith Institute, London, 1994, .

References

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