Greg Autry (PhD University of California, Irvine) is the Associate Provost for Space Commercialization and Strategy at the University of Central Florida. He was previously the Director of Space Leadership, Policy, and Business at Thunderbird School of Global Management. He pioneered management research and degree programs in the business of space.

Greg served as White House Liaison at NASA and has twice been nominated by the President to serve as the Chief Financial Officer of NASA (2020, 2025). He previously served as the Chair of the Safety Working Group on the Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee (COMSTAC) within the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). He has advised a number of startups including Relativity Space, Interstellar Lab, and Volta Space Technologies. He is a visiting professor at Imperial College London and Vice President for Space Development at the National Space Society. Previously, Greg was Assistant Professor of Clinical Entrepreneurship in Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California and taught entrepreneurship and strategy at the University of California, Irvine.

Greg is also a serial entrepreneur who cofounded HAL Labs, a game developer that coded the Apple version of Pac-Man while he was still a high-school student. That software was purchased by Atari. Greg also cofounded Dr. Micro, a PC services firm sold to CompuCom System; Wired Images, an e-commerce content creator for Planet Rx; Network Corps, a developer of health-care enterprise applications for Kaiser Permanente; and Elevated Materials, an upcycler of aerospace carbon fiber scrap. 

Greg's research interests include entrepreneurship, space commerce, technology innovation, and trade policy. He is the coauthor of Death by China (Pearson) which was subsequently turned into a feature-length documentary film narrated by Martin Sheen. Greg’s work has been published in major news outlets including the San Francisco Chronicle, LA Times, Washington Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and SpaceNews. He has been featured on CNN, the BBC, and Fox news. Greg has testified to the U.S. House and Senate and has presented at the Canadian Parliament. He has spoken at the Heritage Foundation, the National Association of Business Economists, The National Press Club, the AIAA Space conference, and the California Democratic Party Convention. Greg’s goal in writing A New Entrepreneurial Dynamic: 21st Century Startups and Small Businesses was to produce an affordable textbook on entrepreneurship that even an entrepreneur would read.