Olga Volynskaya

Assistant Professor

Dr Olga Volynskaya is Assistant Professor at the College of Law of Prince Sultan University in Riyadh. Her research interests are international law, space law and space diplomacy. Before joining the university she served as Chief International Law Advisor of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, Second Secretary of the Legal Department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Associate Professor in the Space Research Department of Lomonosov Moscow State University. She was a permanent member of the Russian delegation to the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space and its Scientific and Technical and Legal Subcommittees. She holds a specialist degree in international law from the Russian Foreign Trade Academy, an LLM in European law from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), and a PhD in international space law. She is a member of the International Institute of Space Law and of the Tsiolkovsky Russian Academy of Cosmonautics. Her recent publications address space traffic management and the legal framework for space in Saudi Arabia.