Amalie Sinclair – Executive Director

Amalie Sinclair has been the driving development force behind ISDHub since 2007. Her background is in the arts and humanities, from an early age she took up studies for the extant philosophies of Asia, with many significant teachers including the late Karmapa XVI. In the 70’s she was introduced to the deep semantic structures of Wittgenstein through the work of the Cambridge Language Research Unit. In 1984 she located to California. She was the director and producer of a large scale performing arts program for the Millennial celebrations which included participation from the Lakota Sioux and peoples of Taos Pueblo, together with artists from Mongolia, Japan, South India, Tibet, Cambodia and Indonesia. In 2004 she was invited to work for the formulation of an advanced US Space Policy with an opening program in Washington DC. Since 2004 her primary focus has been the development of international collaboration in space, giving various talks and authoring many publications. In 2007, she engaged for the Hangar One rehabilitation and re-use issue through Save Hangar One Committee and via community and congressional outreach. In 2008, she published articles on the ISST early proposal at SGAC and the “Space for Progress” website. She presented a paper on US Space Treaty Aspects at 10th ILEWG- ICEUM International Lunar Exploration Working Group – Cape Canaveral, addressing the special session on US space policy for global leadership. She has been a director of Leeward Space Foundation since 2011.