Ilya is Australian born in Ukraine, and is a graduate of the Kiev University School of Law,
having first moved to Australia in 1995.
As an early space business enthusiast he had testified before the US
Congress Committee in 1992 advocating commercial space activities.
He created the first space-related school program, which culminated in the 2002 launch of the world’s first school satellite Kolibri-2000.
Development of Kolibri-2000 involved students of the Knox Grammar School and Ravenswood School for Girls, both located in Sydney .
He also arranged the direct broadcast from space to the 1996 MTV Award Ceremony in the USA.
In 2005 Ilya initiated the project of airborne space launch from Australia using a high-altitude M-55 aircraft.
The project was supported by the Australian Governor General Michael Jeffery.
He also created the world’s first commercial space training and tourism
program and prepared a variety of media scripts for educational
documentaries and science films. Since 1996, the Australian companies
TechnoImport and CosmoVision (of which he is CEO and founder) have held
exclusive world rights to create curricula, research, travel, and
advertising programs for television broadcast from the MIR space
station and the Russian segment of the ISS.
He has worked with numerous prestigious policy
and academic groups over the years, including the Carnegie Foundation.
He has appeared as a guest lecturer at Harvard and Stanford Universities,
consulted various government departments in the Asia-Pacific region,
and presented speeches at social events held by the Royal families of
Great Britain, Belgium, and the Netherlands.
In Australia, Ilya served as Co-President of the Future Foundation together
with Dame Leonie Kramer, Chancellor of the University of Sydney.
In 1993, as CEO of Cyprus company MOSNIKOS he spearheaded the creation of the
first-ever video conferencing system with Cypriot state company SITA and the
Space Research Institute of the Academy of Sciences of Russia.
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Dr. Zhalko-Tytarenko is a Canadian, born in Ukraine, having moved to Canada in 1996. He is an M.Sc. graduate of the Chair of Theoretical Physics of Kyiv University,
holds a Ph.D. in the Physics of Condensed Matter, and has authored over 70 research articles in computational physics, materials science, and space technologies.
Following a successful career of 15 years in academia, Dr. Zhalko-Tytarenko joined the Ukrainian government, where he coordinated international technical assistance to a newly
independent Ukraine. He then became Deputy- and Acting Head of the National Space Agency of Ukraine, where he presided over the conversion of the Ukrainian missile industry from military to commercial;
prepared the signing of space cooperation Agreements with the USA, India, and other nations; and was the Ukrainian signatory for the establishment documents for the SeaLaunch project.
While serving at the Ukrainian Space Agency he launched the adhesion of the Ukraine to the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) as a space fairing nation,
which has a complete package of missile technologies. He supervised establishment of the framework for such an adhesion nationaly and internationally.
His following role was the 1st Deputy Director General – Representative of Ukraine at the inter-government Science and Technology Centre in Ukraine STCU.
STCU was established by the USA, Canada, Sweden, and European Union (joined later) to prevent leak of missile and WMD technology and brain drain from Ukraine to the rough nations. STCU became a success story of the non-proliferation and missile and WMD technology control.
Dr Zhalko-Tytarenko remains active in the non-proliferation field. Following emigration from Ukraine in 1996 he participated in
the international space industry projects in Australia, Canada, and the USA, including the historic 1998 world-first space launch from a commercially owned and operated launch site, near Fort Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. He later served as Director, International Space Systems, of the Asia-Pacific Space Centre in Sydney,
Australia. While in Canada, he continues to write, and has authored over 30 publications in NewSpace Thruster, Diplomatic Courier, and Diplomat International Canada magazines.
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