In this episode, we discuss the public-private partnerships in the space industry, their role in shaping modern commercial space businesses as well as their importance in the military satellite developments, with Deepika Jeyakodi.

About the guest speaker:

Deepika Jeyakodi is a curator at Spaceport Sarabhai, India's first space think tank. She is a member of the International Institute of Space Law. She has over 7 years of experience in the aerospace industry working with interdisciplinary teams on contracts, collaborations, intellectual property, innovation, and product marketing. 

She co-founded Cheer, a human rights-based NGO in India, and practised law at the Madras High Court before moving to the Netherlands. She has authored book chapters on cybersecurity, contract design, and a book on innovation strategy.

She holds an LL.M. (Adv.) in Air and Space Law from Leiden University; an LL.M in International Law and Indian Constitutional Law from Madras University; a diploma in Intellectual Property Laws; and a B.A., B.L. (Hons) from the TNDALU in Chennai. She can be reached on LinkedIn.

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About Access Hub

Access Hub is a global B2B market leader at the intersection of strategy, media, and technology, driving innovation across Space, Defense, Maritime, Aerospace, Energy, and Media-Tech.

Built on three pillars, Advertising & Marketing, Consulting, and Supply Chain Management, Access Hub delivers high-impact campaigns, actionable insights, and trusted supplier-buyer connections.

With a footprint in 120+ countries, 50,000+ monthly readers, and 250+ clients, we consistently deliver results: 75% average sales uplift and 4.85/5 client satisfaction rating.

Whether you’re looking to expand market reach, unlock strategic intelligence, or connect with industry leaders, Access Hub is where industries converge, innovation thrives, and growth accelerates.

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Episode 29 is a continuation of episode 28, so I kindly request you to first listen to episode 28 to connect better with the conversation in episode 29.

In this episode, we explore the intricate web of Foreign Forces' intervention in Africa and its profound impact on the continent's future counterterrorism efforts. We also discuss the historical context and the multifaceted consequences of external military presence in African nations, the balance between security and sovereignty, as well as the evolving counterterrorism strategies and their implications for regional stability, with Aman Bezreh.

About the guest speaker:

Aman Bezreh is an intelligence analyst and political risk consultant. She has been covering political and military developments in the MENA region and Sub-Saharan Africa for over a decade. Aman's specific focus lies in the analysis of Al-Qaeda and Islamic State VEOs within the Sahel region, alongside armed political factions and self-defense groups that operate in the same area.

Aman has contributed to several regional and international media outlets, publishing in Arabic, English, and French.

Currently, Aman is a political risk consultant to companies based in London and Lisbon, assisting them in making strategic decisions and forming partnerships based on her intelligence and due diligence reports. Aman provides travel risk analyses to her clients operating in Nigeria, Djibouti, and Sudan.

She has worked as an investigative journalism consultant for Open Democracy for over four years, training over 70 journalists and activists from across the MENA region in investigative techniques and cybersecurity. Aman has an interest in the socio-political reasons that lead to radicalization and has contributed to the paper 'Understanding The Rising Cult of Suicide Bombers'. Her bylines include articles analysing military capabilities, jihadi trends, and analyses of the regional and global implications of jihadi activities.

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About Access Hub

Access Hub is a global B2B market leader at the intersection of strategy, media, and technology, driving innovation across Space, Defense, Maritime, Aerospace, Energy, and Media-Tech.

Built on three pillars, Advertising & Marketing, Consulting, and Supply Chain Management, Access Hub delivers high-impact campaigns, actionable insights, and trusted supplier-buyer connections.

With a footprint in 120+ countries, 50,000+ monthly readers, and 250+ clients, we consistently deliver results: 75% average sales uplift and 4.85/5 client satisfaction rating.

Whether you’re looking to expand market reach, unlock strategic intelligence, or connect with industry leaders, Access Hub is where industries converge, innovation thrives, and growth accelerates.

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In this episode, we explore the intricate web of Foreign Forces' intervention in Africa and its profound impact on the continent's future counterterrorism efforts. We also discuss the historical context and the multifaceted consequences of external military presence in African nations, the balance between security and sovereignty, as well as the evolving counterterrorism strategies and their implications for regional stability, with Aman Bezreh.

About the guest speaker:

Aman Bezreh is an intelligence analyst and political risk consultant. She has been covering political and military developments in the MENA region and Sub-Saharan Africa for over a decade. Aman's specific focus lies in the analysis of Al-Qaeda and Islamic State VEOs within the Sahel region, alongside armed political factions and self-defense groups that operate in the same area.

Aman has contributed to several regional and international media outlets, publishing in Arabic, English, and French.

Currently, Aman is a political risk consultant to companies based in London and Lisbon, assisting them in making strategic decisions and forming partnerships based on her intelligence and due diligence reports. Aman provides travel risk analyses to her clients operating in Nigeria, Djibouti, and Sudan.

She has worked as an investigative journalism consultant for Open Democracy for over four years, training over 70 journalists and activists from across the MENA region in investigative techniques and cybersecurity. Aman has an interest in the socio-political reasons that lead to radicalization and has contributed to the paper 'Understanding The Rising Cult of Suicide Bombers'. Her bylines include articles analysing military capabilities, jihadi trends, and analyses of the regional and global implications of jihadi activities.

If you find our podcast insightful, please like, share, and subscribe on ⁠⁠www.accesshub.today⁠ and ⁠www.oknikam.eu⁠.

About Access Hub

Access Hub is a global B2B market leader at the intersection of strategy, media, and technology, driving innovation across Space, Defense, Maritime, Aerospace, Energy, and Media-Tech.

Built on three pillars, Advertising & Marketing, Consulting, and Supply Chain Management, Access Hub delivers high-impact campaigns, actionable insights, and trusted supplier-buyer connections.

With a footprint in 120+ countries, 50,000+ monthly readers, and 250+ clients, we consistently deliver results: 75% average sales uplift and 4.85/5 client satisfaction rating.

Whether you’re looking to expand market reach, unlock strategic intelligence, or connect with industry leaders, Access Hub is where industries converge, innovation thrives, and growth accelerates.

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In this episode, we navigate the blurred lines between security and profit, shedding light on military agencies, mercenary groups, and private military companies (PMCs) motivations, controversies, and geopolitical implications in an evolving global security paradigm, with Dr. Molly Dunigan.

About the guest speaker:

Molly Dunigan is director of the Strategy, Doctrine, and Resources Program within the RAND Arroyo Center, a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation, and a senior lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University's Institute for Politics and Strategy. Her research interests focus on military privatization, outsourcing, operational contract support, strategic competition, civil–military relations, civilian deployment, counterinsurgency, and maritime security.

She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a U.S. Institute of Peace Jennings Randolph Peace Fellowship, a U.S. State Department Foreign Language Areas Studies Fellowship, and an International Studies Association Catalytic Research Grant. Prominent among Dunigan's published work are Victory for Hire: Private Security Companies' Impact on Military Effectiveness (Stanford University Press, 2011), The Markets for Force: Privatization of Security Across World Regions (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015), and a number of RAND reports on various personnel and strategy-related issues.

An internationally recognized expert on private security contracting, Dunigan's work on this topic has been cited in USA Today, Time Magazine, Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report, Forbes, and National Public Radio. Dunigan's publications have been favorably reviewed in Military Review, The Journal of Military and Strategic Studies, The Journal of Military History, Survival, Parameters, and The Boston Globe, and her op-eds have appeared in The National Interest, USA Today, The Hill, U.S. News & World Report, and The Christian Science Monitor. Dunigan received her Ph.D. in government from Cornell University. She can be reached on LinkedIn.

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About Access Hub

Access Hub is a global B2B market leader at the intersection of strategy, media, and technology, driving innovation across Space, Defense, Maritime, Aerospace, Energy, and Media-Tech.

Built on three pillars, Advertising & Marketing, Consulting, and Supply Chain Management, Access Hub delivers high-impact campaigns, actionable insights, and trusted supplier-buyer connections.

With a footprint in 120+ countries, 50,000+ monthly readers, and 250+ clients, we consistently deliver results: 75% average sales uplift and 4.85/5 client satisfaction rating.

Whether you’re looking to expand market reach, unlock strategic intelligence, or connect with industry leaders, Access Hub is where industries converge, innovation thrives, and growth accelerates.

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In this episode, we discuss how Critical Minerals are the building blocks of modern society, powering everything from green technologies to space and defence systems with Neha Mishra.

About the guest speaker:

Ms. Neha Mishra is an Associate Fellow (Indo-Pacific Group) at the Centre for Air Power Studies (CAPS). She is doing her Ph.D. at the University of Delhi on ‘The Interplay of Political Economy and Clean Technologies: Scrutinizing India-China Geo-economic Engagement’. Her research interests include the analysis of developing variables that play a crucial role in the national and global energy transition and their impact on the geopolitical and geo-economic equations between countries, such as critical minerals, rare earth elements, renewables, and so on. As a research associate, she is working on a book project titled ‘Strategic Use of Rare Earth Elements: Major Powers and Emerging Players’. She was the associate editor of Diplomacy in Turmoil: A Year of Turbulence, ADR 2022. She can be reached on LinkedIn.

She has penned analytical views on growing agreements and transactions between nations for the supply chain resilience of critical minerals and rare earth elements, primarily between India, the United States, Australia, Japan, Myanmar, and Malaysia, among others. She has published three chapters on rare earth-related topics: 

1.  India-ASEAN Geo-economic Engagement: Potential of Rare Earth Elements, in “The Great Game in the Indo-Pacific: A Pivot to India”, KW Publisher. ISBN- 978-9391490386 
2. Geo-economics of Artificial Islands in the South China Sea: A China-Vietnam Case Study, in “ADR 2022- Diplomacy in Turmoil: A Year of Turbulence”, KW Publisher. ISBN- 978- 9394915060 
3. Rare earth and India's Neighbourhood in “India and its Extended Neighbourhood”, KW Publisher.

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About Access Hub

Access Hub is a global B2B market leader at the intersection of strategy, media, and technology, driving innovation across Space, Defense, Maritime, Aerospace, Energy, and Media-Tech.

Built on three pillars, Advertising & Marketing, Consulting, and Supply Chain Management, Access Hub delivers high-impact campaigns, actionable insights, and trusted supplier-buyer connections.

With a footprint in 120+ countries, 50,000+ monthly readers, and 250+ clients, we consistently deliver results: 75% average sales uplift and 4.85/5 client satisfaction rating.

Whether you’re looking to expand market reach, unlock strategic intelligence, or connect with industry leaders, Access Hub is where industries converge, innovation thrives, and growth accelerates.

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In episode 25, we discuss the history of espionage cases, how they shaped the trajectory of the space race, as well as the impact of some recent espionage cases on the commercial space sector, with Dr. Joseph Fitsanakis.

About the guest speaker:

Dr. Joseph Fitsanakis is the co-founder of IntelNews, a platform that aims to encourage public discussion on a critical aspect of security and to provide the world’s media with informed and responsible commentary on related subjects. He is also a professor of Intelligence and Security Studies at Coastal Carolina University and serves as director of the Intelligence Operations Command Center. He is an Academic Security and Counter Exploitation program member and manages Coastal Carolina University’s Educational Partnership Agreement with the United States National Security Agency. He also serves as regional vice president for the South Carolina chapter of the InfraGard Members Alliance, a Federal Bureau of Investigation initiative for the protection of the United States’ critical infrastructure. Dr. Fitsanakis has published widely on intelligence collection, information security, cyber security, and sub-state political violence, among other topics.

He has also published comparative research on intelligence agencies in southern Europe, sub-Saharan Africa, and Southeast Asia, focusing on China and North Korea. His recent scholarly publications include the books Aspects of Islamic Radicalization in the Balkans After the Fall of Communism (Peter Lang 2023, co-edited), Redesigning Wiretapping: The Digitization of Communications Interception (Springer 2020), and Intelligence Beyond the Anglosphere: Mediterranean and Balkan Regions (RIEAS 2017, co-edited). Since joining Coastal Carolina University in 2015, Dr. Fitsanakis has repeatedly received the University-wide Distinguished Professor of the Year Award, the Edward College John B. Durrell Award, and the Professor of the Year Award for the Departments of Politics and Intelligence and Security Studies.

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About Access Hub

Access Hub is a global B2B market leader at the intersection of strategy, media, and technology, driving innovation across Space, Defense, Maritime, Aerospace, Energy, and Media-Tech.

Built on three pillars, Advertising & Marketing, Consulting, and Supply Chain Management, Access Hub delivers high-impact campaigns, actionable insights, and trusted supplier-buyer connections.

With a footprint in 120+ countries, 50,000+ monthly readers, and 250+ clients, we consistently deliver results: 75% average sales uplift and 4.85/5 client satisfaction rating.

Whether you’re looking to expand market reach, unlock strategic intelligence, or connect with industry leaders, Access Hub is where industries converge, innovation thrives, and growth accelerates.

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In this episode, we discuss the importance of Multi-domain Operations (MDO) and the role of space technology in MDO with Theodora Ogden.

About the guest speaker:

Theodora Ogden is an analyst at the RAND Corporation. She works primarily for RAND Europe in the area of defence, security, and infrastructure.

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About Access Hub

Access Hub is a global B2B market leader at the intersection of strategy, media, and technology, driving innovation across Space, Defense, Maritime, Aerospace, Energy, and Media-Tech.

Built on three pillars, Advertising & Marketing, Consulting, and Supply Chain Management, Access Hub delivers high-impact campaigns, actionable insights, and trusted supplier-buyer connections.

With a footprint in 120+ countries, 50,000+ monthly readers, and 250+ clients, we consistently deliver results: 75% average sales uplift and 4.85/5 client satisfaction rating.

Whether you’re looking to expand market reach, unlock strategic intelligence, or connect with industry leaders, Access Hub is where industries converge, innovation thrives, and growth accelerates.

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In episode 23, we discuss the intricate realm of multilateralism and satellite communications' critical role in fostering connectivity, diplomacy, and security in the Indo-Pacific region with Dr. Chaitanya Giri.

About the guest speaker

Chaitanya Giri is Associate Professor – Environmental Sciences at FLAME University. Chaitanya’s research interests traverse between analytical astrochemistry and planetary science, exploration technologies for applications in the global commons, technostrategy and ethics, space economy, and science diplomacy.  

Chaitanya’s Ph.D. thesis, “The Organic Composition of Cometary Nucleus, the COSAC Experiment on Philae,” was one of the crucial scientific investigations of the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. As a co-investigator of the Cometary Sampling and Composition Experiment (COSAC) gas chromatography-mass spectrometry payload on Rosetta’s Philae Lander, he was involved in the first ever in situ scientific exploration of any comet.

He later moved to the Earth-Life Science Institute at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, as an ELSI Origins Network (EON) Early-Career Fellow studying astromaterials. During this fellowship, funded by the John Templeton Foundation of the US, Chaitanya traveled as a visiting scientist to the Geophysical Laboratory (now Earth & Planets Laboratory) of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, DC, the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. His work during the fellowship led to the first confirmed detection of naturally-synthesized nanoscale graphene in ~4.5 billion years old meteorites.

Chaitanya transitioned from a laboratory scientist to a strategy analyst when he joined as a Fellow for Space and Ocean Studies at Gateway House, Mumbai. Since 2021, he has been a Space Diplomacy Consultant at the Research and Information System for Developing Countries, an autonomous body of the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India. He has also consulted the National Security Council Secretariat at the Prime Minister’s Office. He was a committee member of the International Cooperation Review of the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Earth Sciences.

He is the editor of Interstellar sits on the Advisory Board of the Satcom Industry Association-India; is a Member of the NITI Aayog Committee on Space Economy; a Contributor to the Center for International Governance Innovation, Canada; and is a Nominated Senate Member of the University of Mumbai. He can be reached on LinkedIn.

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About Access Hub

Access Hub is a global B2B market leader at the intersection of strategy, media, and technology, driving innovation across Space, Defense, Maritime, Aerospace, Energy, and Media-Tech.

Built on three pillars, Advertising & Marketing, Consulting, and Supply Chain Management, Access Hub delivers high-impact campaigns, actionable insights, and trusted supplier-buyer connections.

With a footprint in 120+ countries, 50,000+ monthly readers, and 250+ clients, we consistently deliver results: 75% average sales uplift and 4.85/5 client satisfaction rating.

Whether you’re looking to expand market reach, unlock strategic intelligence, or connect with industry leaders, Access Hub is where industries converge, innovation thrives, and growth accelerates.

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NOTE: Episode 22 is a continuation of episode 21, therefore prior to proceeding ahead I kindly request you to first listen to episode 21.

In episode 21 and 22, we delve deep into the complex web of the Serbia-Kosovo conflict as well as unravel the dark connections between drug trafficking and terrorism, with Adam Rousselle.

About the guest speaker

Adam Rousselle is a researcher, writer, and editor focused on global financial, economic, and security issues. Currently working in commodities in the Asian markets, Adam is also a regular editor and contributor to Militant Wire. He can be reached on Twitter.

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About Access Hub

Access Hub is a global B2B market leader at the intersection of strategy, media, and technology, driving innovation across Space, Defense, Maritime, Aerospace, Energy, and Media-Tech.

Built on three pillars, Advertising & Marketing, Consulting, and Supply Chain Management, Access Hub delivers high-impact campaigns, actionable insights, and trusted supplier-buyer connections.

With a footprint in 120+ countries, 50,000+ monthly readers, and 250+ clients, we consistently deliver results: 75% average sales uplift and 4.85/5 client satisfaction rating.

Whether you’re looking to expand market reach, unlock strategic intelligence, or connect with industry leaders, Access Hub is where industries converge, innovation thrives, and growth accelerates.

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In episode 21 and 22, we delve deep into the complex web of the Serbia-Kosovo conflict as well as unravel the dark connections between drug trafficking and terrorism, with Adam Rousselle.

About the guest speaker

Adam Rousselle is a researcher, writer, and editor focused on global financial, economic, and security issues. Currently working in commodities in the Asian markets, Adam is also a regular editor and contributor to Militant Wire. He can be reached on Twitter.

Click here to subscribe to the Militant Wire.

Militant Wire social media links:

Twitter: @MilitantWire

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/militant-wire/

Telegram: https://t.me/MilitantWire

If you find our podcast insightful, please like, share, and subscribe on ⁠⁠www.accesshub.today⁠ and ⁠www.oknikam.eu⁠.

About Access Hub

Access Hub is a global B2B market leader at the intersection of strategy, media, and technology, driving innovation across Space, Defense, Maritime, Aerospace, Energy, and Media-Tech.

Built on three pillars, Advertising & Marketing, Consulting, and Supply Chain Management, Access Hub delivers high-impact campaigns, actionable insights, and trusted supplier-buyer connections.

With a footprint in 120+ countries, 50,000+ monthly readers, and 250+ clients, we consistently deliver results: 75% average sales uplift and 4.85/5 client satisfaction rating.

Whether you’re looking to expand market reach, unlock strategic intelligence, or connect with industry leaders, Access Hub is where industries converge, innovation thrives, and growth accelerates.

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