Ntorina Antoni is a PhD Candidate in strategic management in the ITEM group. Furthermore, she is an Attorney-at-Law and member of the Athens Bar Association in Greece. From October 2016 to September 2017 she worked at the Strategy Department of the European Space Agency (ESA). In her role as strategy and policy analyst she got involved in the research and analysis of regulations, policies and strategies of the ESA member states. Prior to this, from May 2014 to October 2016 she was the legal counsel of Swiss Space Systems, a company which planned to provide orbital launches of small satellites and manned sub-orbital spaceflights. She was in charge of the legal and regulatory aspects of aviation and aerospace projects including aircraft purchase, certification of parabolic flights and suborbital flights as well as regulation of small satellites. 

Ntorina holds a Law degree from the University of Athens, a Master in Law (LL.M) in International and European law from Tilburg University and an Advanced Master in Law (LL.M) in Air and Space law from Leiden University. In addition to space law and space policy, her current research interests include strategic decision-making under uncertainty and legitimacy in the context of high reliability organizations. With a particular focus on the aerospace and security/defence industries, she aims to contribute to the strategy literature with research that is relevant and useful for practice.