Candace Johnson

Founder/Co-Founder SES, Loral-Teleport Europe; Chair Advisory Board and Partner Seraphim Space; Founding Vice Chair and Board Member NorthStar Earth & Space, Board Member Vusion Group, Vice Chair Institut EuropIA, International Chamber of Commerce Executive Board Member and Co-Chair of the Policy Commission at SES, Loral Teleport

Speaker

Candace Johnson is a serial global infrastructure, network and innovation entre-preneur and investor. She is Founder/Co-Founder of one of the world’s largest satellite system SES (Société Européenne des Satellites), Europe’s first private satellite communications network Loral-Teleport Europe, the world’s first Internet based online service Europe Online, Oceania Women’s Network Satellite (OWNSAT), a founding investor in the Kacific Satellite System. Ms. Johnson is also Founding President of the VATM, the Association of Private Telecom Operators in Germany and Founding President of the Global Telecom Women’s Network (GTWN). Currently, Candace is Chair of Advisory Board and Partner of Seraphim Space Fund, Founding Vice Chair of NorthStar Earth and Space, and Non-Executive Director of VUSION, the world’s leading IOT/Electronic Shelf Labelling group. Ms. Johnson is a member of the Executive Board of the ICC, International Chamber of Commerce, Member Saudi Space Agency Advisory Council, Vice President of Institut EuropIA, the European Institute of Artificial Intelligence. She was also Vice-Chair of the B 20 Task Force on Technology, Innovation and R & D for 2023. She is most pleased to be joining the Singapore Space Agency Think Tank Council.

She has been decorated by the Luxembourg Government with the Commander of the Order of Merit and the Officer of the Oak Leaf Crown as well as being decorated by the German Government with the Officer of the Fed-eral Order of Merit. Ms. Johnson has received numerous Lifetime Achievement Awards from such prestigious organizations as the World Communication Awards, Women in Aerospace, The International Alliance of Women and the Global Telecom Women’s Network, (GTWN). Ms. Johnson has an honorary doctorate from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, a master’s with honors from the Sorbonne and Stanford and an undergraduate degree from Vassar College.