Daniel Leeb

Daniel Leeb is the Executive Mission Director and CEO of the Iceland Space Agency (ISA), a privately organized, non-governmental institution that works directly with the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, and Innovation and the University of Iceland. He currently leads interdisciplinary teams developing research solutions that position Iceland as a key partner in space exploration, innovation, and planetary science. In 2023, Daniel was named Co-Chair of the International Mars Exploration Analog Working Group, participated in the first ESA/NASA-led Mars Sample Return Analog collection mission, coordinated and led Iceland’s signing of the Artemis Accords, and became a Co-Investigator and collaborator on the NASA-funded HABMARS research project, led by Dr. Roy Price. This spring, the ISA launched the TACAT project to leverage remote sensing and AI/ML to map and analyze the evolving terrestrial analogs in the Arctic with their celestial counterparts. On July 20th, the 55th anniversary