Mike Gold is the Acting Associate Administrator for the Office of International and Interagency Relations. Mr. Gold also provides strategic guidance and oversight to NASA’s Office of General Counsel. Prior to joining NASA, Mike Gold was Vice President for Civil Space at Maxar Technologies, and was also General Counsel at Maxar’s Radiant Solutions business unit. Before the formation of Maxar, Mr. Gold was the Vice President of Washington Operations for Space Systems Loral. Additionally, Mr. Gold spent 12 years as Corporate Counsel as well as Director of Washington Operations and Business Growth for Bigelow Aerospace, and was an attorney for the law firms of Patton Boggs and McGuire Woods. Mr. Gold was the first Chair of the NASA Advisory Counsel’s Regulatory and Policy Committee and also Chaired the FAA’s Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee for nearly seven years. Mr. Gold is the author of several law review articles and editorials regarding export control reform and he has testified before both the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives on commercial space policy and regulatory issues. Mr. Gold is admitted to practice law in New York and the District of Columbia, and he is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School.