Advocate (Ms) Icho Kealotswe-Matlou

Advocate (Ms) Icho Kealotswe-Matlou

is an independent legal and policy expert in space law. An admitted Advocate of the High Courts of South Africa and Botswana. She is a member of the Johannesburg Bar, the Botswana Law Society and the International Institute of Space Law (IISL). Ms Kealotswe-Matlou holds an LLB from the University of Botswana, and an LLM (cum laude) from University of Pretoria in International, Air, Space and Telecommunications Law (in collaboration Institute of Air and Space Law: University of Cologne, Germany. She recently served as co-drafter of the book Global Space Governance: An International Study, released by Springer in 2018 and has presided yearly over the Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court Competitions (African Region) since 2015.

Current Boards: South African National Space Agency (SANSA).