Sinéad O’Sullivan

Sinéad O'Sullivan is a Northern Irish aerospace engineer, economist, and strategist who has built an interdisciplinary career spanning NASA, MIT, and Harvard Business School. She holds degrees from Queen's University Belfast, Georgia Tech, and Harvard Business School, and led human spaceflight mission design projects for NASA's Mars exploration. Currently Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology and former Chief Strategist to Michael Porter at Harvard Business School, she serves on the boards of the European Space Policy Institute and Irish Museum of Modern Art. A Financial Times columnist and certified sommelier who recently completed training as a pastry chef at two-Michelin-starred Restaurant Patrick Guilbaud, she is publishing "Good Ideas and Power Moves" about Taylor Swift's business strategy in September 2025