Erika Wagner's Biography

Erika Wagner, Payload Sales Director, Blue Origin

Erika Wagner serves as Payload Sales Director for Blue Origin. Previously, she worked with the X PRIZE Foundation as Senior Director of Exploration Prize Development and founding Executive Director of the X PRIZE Lab@MIT. Dr. Wagner serves on the Boards of the Museum of Flight and American Society for Gravitational and Space Research, as well as the National Academies’ Space Studies Board. Her interdisciplinary academic background includes a bachelor’s in Biomedical Engineering from Vanderbilt University, a master’s in Aeronautics & Astronautics from MIT, and a PhD in Bioastronautics from the Harvard/MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology.