Riccardo Loschi

Riccardo Loschi is a senior associate at LALIVE, currently based in Zurich, Switzerland. He represents and advises governments, companies, and institutions in complex, high-value disputes and transactions involving foreign investments, environmental and administrative permits, and national security issues across various sectors, including space and technology sectors.

Riccardo holds a law degree from Bocconi University (summa cum laude) and an LL.M. from Columbia Law School (Parker Scholar, Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar). He has completed the Strategic Space Law Course at McGill University, attended the II Series of International Space Law Seminars at Rey Juan Carlos University in collaboration with the University of Leicester, obtained a post-graduate certificate in public policy from the London School of Economics, and studied international economic law and arbitration at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Riccardo is a board member of the Space Arbitration Association. In this capacity, he has published articles, spoken at the 2023 International Astronautical Congress in Baku, and taken part to the Consultation on the EU Space Law.  He is also an associate fellow of the Helsinki Geoeconomic Society, and a former member of the European Centre for Space Law (2021-2023). He served as managing editor of Columbia FDI Perspectives (2020-2022), a policy series published by the Columbia Centre for Sustainable Development and worked as a research assistant at the Columbia Centre for International Commercial & Investment Arbitration (2019-2020).