Anna Purkhauser is a Manager at Novaspace in Munich, advising institutional and defense stakeholders on space policy, capability planning, and strategic innovation. She coordinates the firm’s global defense and security activities and leads key projects, including the Space Defence and Security Market Intelligence Report. Her work focuses on leveraging space capabilities for defense, with particular emphasis on strategic space posture, commercial resilience, and space threat assessment. She brings together commercial, institutional, and operational perspectives to help defense actors make effective use of the evolving space ecosystem. Anna holds a PhD in Space Engineering from TU Munich and has more than five years of consulting experience at the intersection of space, defense, and innovation.