
Andrea Riley
Program Executive
Andrea Riley is a Program Executive for NASA’s Near-Earth Object Surveyor mission. As Program Executive, Ms. Riley is responsible for ensuring the mission complies with NASA policies, procedures, and information requirements. ensembles.
Ms. Riley has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan. She began working with NASA, at the Kennedy Space Center, in ground operations for the Space Shuttle program in 2003. In 2008, she moved to NASA Headquarters and worked in the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate on commercial spaceflight development programs that included Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) and Commercial Crew program, and then the International Space Station. In 2019 she joined NASA’s Planetary Sciences Division.