Damien Macedo

Mr Damien Macedo is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, affiliated with the Centre for Tax Law (CTL) and the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (LCIL). His research explores taxation of commercial activities in outer space under existing international tax rules.

• PhD Candidate (Cantab.)
• LLM (University of Toronto)
• JD (Queen's University)
• BA(Hons.) (University of Toronto)

His project, "Taxing Beyond Jurisdiction: Commercial Activity in Outer Space," analyzes gaps in current frameworks for taxing space-based activities like asteroid mining, megaconstellations, and off-planet colonization. Damien has received recognition as a Fellow of the Royal Canadian College of Organists and is supervised by Professor Peter Harris.