Jamie Favors

Jamie Favors is the director of NASA’s Space Weather Program in the Heliophysics Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington. In this role he leads NASA’s efforts to advance space weather science, measurements, and applications to protect life and infrastructure on Earth and across the solar system.

In his 18 years with NASA, Favors has managed large, complex satellite missions, overseen the development of commercial space launch capabilities, led hundreds of applied Earth science projects benefiting society, and developed global commercial partnerships that extended the reach and impact of NASA science data. Favors has worked at multiple NASA Centers including Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia; Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland; Stennis Space Center in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi; and Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, California.

Favors also performed a work detail in the Virginia Governor’s Office to foster the use of Earth observations in state-level decision making and planning and later served as advisor to a member of the Board of Directors for the Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority for the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport.

Favors’ academic background is in Meteorology (M.Sc., San Jose State University), and his research focused on atmospheric dynamics and drivers of monsoonal systems in North America and Africa.