Angel Abbud-Madrid is the Director of the Center for Space Resources at the Colorado School of Mines, where he leads a research program focused on the human and robotic exploration of space and the utilization of its resources. He is also the Director of the Space Resources Graduate Program aimed at educating scientists, engineers, economists, entrepreneurs, and policy makers in the field of extraterrestrial resources. He has more than 35 years of experience in space projects including experiments in low-gravity airplanes, the Space Shuttle, the International Space Station, and lunar and planetary missions. In 2004 he received the NASA Astronauts’ Personal Achievement Award for his contributions to human spaceflight. He is the President of the Space Resources Roundtable, an international organization that brings together interested parties to discuss all aspects of space, lunar, asteroidal, and planetary resources. In 2018 he was appointed as Observer and Technical Panel member of The Hague International Space Resources Governance Working Group and in 2020 as member of the Committee on Planetary Protection of the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Space and Planetary Resources Journal published by Springer Nature. Dr. Abbud-Madrid holds a B.S.E. from ITESM in México, a M.S.E. from Princeton University, and a Ph.D. from University of Colorado at Boulder.