Greg Autry (MBA and PhD, University of California, Irvine) is Associate Provost for Space Commercialization and Strategy at the University of Central Florida, also known as the university’s “Space Czar.” From 2021 to 2024, he served as a program Director and Clinical Professor at Arizona State University’s Thunderbird School of Global Management, where he taught entrepreneurship and space leadership. Dr. Autry held an appointment as a Visiting Professor at Imperial College London from 2021 to 2025. From 2013 to 2020, he was an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Lloyd Greif Center of Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Southern California, teaching technology entrepreneurship. He has also taught Entrepreneurship, Strategy, and Macroeconomics at the University of California, Irvine between 2002 and 2013. In 2020, he helped to develop a series of educational videos for Oxford University and debated at the prestigious Oxford Union in 2022.

Greg is also a serial entrepreneur who cofounded HAL Labs, a game developer that produced the Apple II version of Pac-Man for Atari while he was a high-school student. He also cofounded Dr. Micro, a PC services firm sold to CompuCom System; Wired Images, an e-commerce content creator; Network Corps, a developer of health-care enterprise applications for Kaiser Permanente; and Elevated Materials, a carbon fiber manufacturing firm. He has been a board member and advisor for many startups, primarily in the commercial space sector. 

Dr. Autry has been highly influential in shaping America’s space policy. He served on the NASA Agency Review Team and as the White House Liaison at NASA. He has twice been nominated by the president to serve as the Chief Financial Officer of the space agency. He also chaired the Safety Working Group on the Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee (COMSTAC) within the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). In 2023, Dr. Autry was appointed to a committee of the National Academies that reviewed NASA’s SBIR and STTR programs for Congress. He has served as Vice President for Space Development at the National Space Society and the Space Force Association. Final titles and organizational affiliations should reflect his current roles at the time of publication.

Dr. Autry is the author of Barons and Bros: Leadership Lessons from the Parallel Lives of the Great 19th and 21st-Century Entrepreneurs (Post Hill Press, 2027) and co-author of Red Moon Rising: How America Will Beat China on the Final Frontier (Post Hill Press, 2024), and Death by China: Confronting the Dragon, a Global Call to Action (Pearson, 2011).