Peter Marquez
Peter J. Marquez is Vice President of Strategy and Planning at Orbital Sciences Corporation. Mr. Marquez is responsible for helping to develop the company's strategic approach to opportunities in civil and military space programs that can be addressed with Orbital's reliable and affordable small- and medium-class space systems. He reports to Senior Vice President Michael Hamel, Lt. Gen., U. S. Air Force (retired), who heads the company's corporate strategy and development activities.
For the past decade, Mr. Marquez has held senior positions with government and commercial organizations involved in U.S. space policy and programs. Just prior to joining Orbital, he served as the White House Director of Space Policy, a position he held since late 2007. Mr. Marquez transitioned to the White House from the Department of Defense, where he entered government service in 2002. He worked in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, first as a Space Policy Analyst, in which he helped formulate space policy and maintained oversight of the space control portfolio, eventually rising to Director of Special Programs, a role in which he oversaw all operational Defense Department Special Access Programs. Mr. Marquez came to the government from the private sector, where he began his career in 2000 with AT&T Government Solutions as an analyst for policy and programs for classified space and cyber capabilities.
Mr. Marquez earned a B.A. degree in Political Science and a M.A. degree in Space Policy and Science and Technology Policy, both from The George Washington University in Washington, DC.