Greg Autry

Greg Autry (born April 25, 1963) is an American space policy expert, educator, entrepreneur and author. He is the Professor of Practice in the College of Business and Associate Provost for Space Commercialization and Strategy at the University of Central Florida where he leads the college’s efforts to deliver Executive and MBA programs in Space Commercialization while helping the university craft and implement a roadmap for its space efforts. He also serves as the Vice President for Space Development at the National Space Society and Chairs the Business Case sub-committee for NASA’s In Space Production Applications program (InSPA) which sends manufacturing experiments to the International Space Station. In March 2025, he was nominated to serve as Chief Financial Officer of NASA.

Before joining UCF, Dr. Autry was the Clinical Professor (FSC) and Director of the Thunderbird Initiative for Space Leadership, Policy, and Business at the Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University. While at the Thunderbird School of Global Management, he served as Chair of the Safety Working Group on the COMSTAC; his two-year tenure ended in 2022. He is also a former assistant professor of Clinical Entrepreneurship in Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. Prior to that, he served as an adjunct professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at the Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine. Autry served on the NASA Agency Review Team for the incoming Trump administration in 2016 and temporarily as the White House Liaison at NASA in 2017. He holds an MBA and PhD from the University of California, Irvine.