Dr. David M. Livingston
Dr. David M.
Livingston is the founder and host of
The Space Show®, the USA’s only talk radio show focusing
on
increasing space commerce, developing space tourism, and facilitating
our move to a space-faring economy and culture. The Space Show® is
broadcast multiple times per week on radio and the internet. Past show
archives, listening information, and coming events can be found at
www.thespaceshow.com. The Space Show is fully licensed to
the
newly
formed One Giant Leap Foundation (OGLF) which he started to
promote his special type of space education. OGLF is a 501(c)(3)
public
benefit tax exempt foundation.
In addition, David is an adjunct professor at the University
of North Dakota Graduate School of Space Studies, both on campus and in
their distant learning program, specializing in space commerce
economics, ethics, and management classes. He has also served as an
adjunct professor in the Graduate School of Business at Golden Gate
University teaching Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management and
he has guest lectured at other university programs including Stanford
University and Sonoma State University. He earned his BA from the
University of Arizona, his MBA in International Business Management
from Golden Gate University in San Francisco, and his Doctorate in
Business Administration (DBA) also at Golden Gate University. His
doctoral dissertation was titled Outer Space Commerce: Its History
and
Prospects.
He has spoken at or had his papers presented at various
international space conferences, including
Space and Robotics 98, 2000, and 2002, the
Mars Society conferences of 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2005, the
Lunar Development Conference 2000 and 2001,
the IAA 2000, the Cato Institute in March 2001, the
National Space
Society Conference in May 2002, the
World Space Conference in Houston
in 2000, Space Access 2005, Space Exploration 2005, AIAA in Long Beach
in 2005,
ATWG NASA Ames in October 2005, the International Conference
of Nanotechnology in San Francisco in November 2005, and
more.
His
lecture topics include venture capital for space investments,
RLVs and
space tourism, effective business, strategic and assumption planning,
along with developing the solutions to the barriers to space
enterprise, talking to the public about space, tracing the dollars
spent on space through the economy, business ethics and corporate
responsibility for off-Earth business ventures and
New Space
Industries, and observations about space development based on his
radio
show experience.
David’s
Code of Ethics for Off-Earth Commerce has
been widely published and revised. He is also a contributing author
to the newly published book,
Beyond Earth: The Future of Humans In
Space edited by Bob Krone.
His chapter, “Making Space A Popular Goal”,
documents
how to
move forward to a space-faring culture based on nearly five years of
hosting The Space Show. He is part of a new group
with
Barbara Marx Hubbard,
Howard Bloom, and
others to raise the
consciousness of people regarding the value and importance of space
settlement and development for humanity.
When not teaching, occupied, or working with space matters, he
is a business consultant, financial advisor, and strategic planner.
For more than twenty-five years, he has worked in oil and gas
exploration, real estate development sales, the finance and security
industry, as well as in marketing and direct advertising
sales.
David authored
Space Tourism After Dennis Tito,
The Prospects for Space Commerce in the Aftermath of 9/11,
How Best To Talk With The Public About Mars, Space Tourism, And
Space Commerce,
Space Tourism and RLVs: You can’t have one without the
other!,
From Earth to Mars: A Cooperative Plan,
Space: The Final Financial Frontier,
The Ethical Commercialization of Outer Space, and
The Obstacles to Financing New Space Industries.