Gopalan Elected

The Arizona Aerospace and Defense Commission elected Sandeep Gopalan, Associate Professor of Law at Arizona State University, as its new chair. Professor Gopalan replaces Boeing General Manager Ed Koopman who retired from Boeing & the commission.

Professor Gopalan's research & teaching are primarily in the areas of transnational commercial law and corporate governance law. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford where he did doctoral research on the harmonization of national commercial laws. The Arizona Aerospace & Defense Commission is tasked with developing an aerospace & defense strategic plan that builds synergy between government, industry & education.