Christopher Stott
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Christopher Bryan Robert Stott is a space entrepreneur. He is best known for co-founding the regulatory and orbital services company, ManSat, and the commercial spaceline, Excalibur Almaz.
He is currently president and CEO of ManSat, and Executive Vice President for Sales and Marketing of Excalibur Almaz. Excalibur Almaz owns several Almaz space capsules and space stations, and plans to provide commercial services for space tourism, cargo to Earth orbit, and micro-gravity research. Stott is also the Honorary Representative of the Isle of Man Government to the Space Community.
Chris Stott was previously Director of International Commercialization & Sales with Lockheed Martin Space Operations' $3.4 billion Consolidated Space Operations Contract with NASA. He came to Lockheed Martin from the Boeing Space & Communications Company in Huntington Beach, California, where he worked International Business Development for the Delta Launch Vehicle program.
Earlier, Stott worked extensively in British and American politics as an Office Manager, Staff Aide, and Speech Writer in the British House of Commons and House of Lords, and as an Intern in the US Senate and the White House, 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 Non-Governmental Organization (NGO).
Educated at Millfield School in Somerset, England, Chris Stott attended the University of Kent, Canterbury, where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts Degree, with Honors, in American Studies, Politics and Government. While matriculated at Canterbury, Stott received a Diploma from the University of California, San Diego, where he studied International Relations and Marine Policy (at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography). Stott also holds a Masters Degree in Space Studies from the International Space University (ISU). He is a member of ISU's Board of Trustees and is Co-Chair of the School of Business and Management at the University. He has also taught international space law at the University of Houston–Clear Lake and lectured at the University of Houston Law Center. Stott was a founding member of the British Space Education Council and remains active in supporting space education initiatives.
Stott is a Vice President of 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; Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (published); Member of the Reform Club; Conservative Party, and Tory Reform Group; and a Fellow of the International Institute of Space Law (published).
Stott co-authored the Adam Smith Institute work, 'A Space For Enterprise: the aerospace industries after government monopoly'. 1994 (ISBN: :873712480)
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 Houston, Texas.
