{"id":15,"date":"2026-05-29T04:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T04:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guildofspaceprofessionals.comteams.com\/?p=15"},"modified":"2026-05-30T01:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T01:35:12","slug":"souss-council-moves-to-form-guild-of-space-professionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guildofspaceprofessionals.comteams.com\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"SOUSS Council explores forming Guild of Space Professionals in City of London"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Space and Oceans Unified Sustainability and Systems Ad Hoc Council was co-founded by Karen Earle Lile and David Sandy December 8, 2025 with the initial Council members listed on this letterhead, exploring the potential of a Guild of Space Professionals along the path to City of London Livery Company. Since that time, gathering support has established that there is active interest in forming a Guild of Space Professionals, which would be on the path to Company and then to Livery Company in the City of London Livery Company traditions that date back to ancient times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Founders<\/strong>:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp; Karen Earle Lile, Space Integration Architect<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">  David Sandy, Managing Director, The Aerospace UK, Ltd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Founding Council:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Institutional<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp; Joshua Broom, Head of Space, DBT<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp; Tobias Lin, Space Capability Strategy, DSIT<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp; Commodore David Moody, CBE, Director NESSTC<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp; Commodore Anthony Williams, UK Space Command, Head of Capability<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Policy\/Strategy<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&nbsp; <\/em>Alan Thompson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp; Mark Wheatley, Director at Delano Wheatley Consulting, DWC Tech Ltd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Industry\/Transition<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>&nbsp; <\/em><\/strong>Patrick Cahill, Deputy Director, Network Telecom &amp; Space Solutions, Crown Commercial Service<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp; Anushka Sharma, co-founder London Space Network and Liaison Manager, SPAN and Founder\/President Naaut<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(listed alphabetically by last name per category)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/guildofspaceprofessionals.comteams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/349-Guild-of-SP-Splash-Page-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30\" srcset=\"https:\/\/guildofspaceprofessionals.comteams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/349-Guild-of-SP-Splash-Page-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/guildofspaceprofessionals.comteams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/349-Guild-of-SP-Splash-Page-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/guildofspaceprofessionals.comteams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/349-Guild-of-SP-Splash-Page-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/guildofspaceprofessionals.comteams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/349-Guild-of-SP-Splash-Page-1.jpg 1535w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Space and Oceans Unified Sustainability and Systems Ad Hoc Council was co-founded by Karen Earle Lile and David Sandy December 8,<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt \" href=\"https:\/\/guildofspaceprofessionals.comteams.com\/?p=15\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guildofspaceprofessionals.comteams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guildofspaceprofessionals.comteams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guildofspaceprofessionals.comteams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guildofspaceprofessionals.comteams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guildofspaceprofessionals.comteams.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/guildofspaceprofessionals.comteams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36,"href":"https:\/\/guildofspaceprofessionals.comteams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guildofspaceprofessionals.comteams.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guildofspaceprofessionals.comteams.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guildofspaceprofessionals.comteams.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}