Annalisa Weigel, Ph.D., is currently a Senior Director with Fairmont Consulting Group. She supports growth strategy and market due diligence engagements for various sponsors and strategic clients across Fairmont’s practice areas and leads the firm’s space practice area. Prior to Fairmont, Annalisa was a faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researching and teaching in aerospace and defense innovation, space systems design, and continuous process improvement. Her additional experiences include time spent working on Wall Street, supporting the DoD, and pioneering the application of lean principles in the aerospace community.
Annalisa received her Ph.D. in Technology, Management, and Policy from MIT, as well as an SB and SM in Aeronautics and Astronautics. She also received an MA in Space Policy from George Washington University. Annalisa is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), and a former Trustee of AIAA and the AIAA Foundation.