- Paul Twomey
Dr. Paul Twomey became President/CEO of ICANN on 27 March 2003. Paul's background lends a balance of public/private experience to leading ICANN, including numerous leadership positions in commercial enterprises, government, and in chairing ICANN's Government Advisory Committee.
- Vint Cerf
Vinton Gray Cerf (born June 23, 1943) (last name pronounced just like the English word "surf") is an American computer scientist who is commonly referred to as one of the "founding fathers of the Internet" for his key technical and managerial role, together with Bob Kahn, in the creation of the Internet and the TCP/IP protocols which it uses. He was also a co-founder (in 1992) of the Internet Society (ISOC), …
- Joi Ito
Joi Ito , an activist, entrepreneur and venture capitalist, has received much recognition for his role as an entrepreneur of Internet and technology companies. He has founded companies such as PSINet Japan, Digital Garage and Infoseek Japan and is the founder and currently the CEO of the venture capital firm, Neoteny Co., Ltd.
- Esther Dyson
Esther Dyson is a self-described authority on emerging digital technology, and considered a founding member of the digerati. Esther Dyson is the daughter of Freeman Dyson, a physicist, and Verana Huber-Dyson, a mathematician, and the sister of the digital technology historian George Dyson. After graduating from Harvard in economics, she joined Forbes as a fact-checker and quickly rose to reporter.
- Susan Crawford
Susan Crawford is a prominent media internet legal scholar and professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Prior to entering the legal academy, Crawford was a partner at the Washington, DC law firm Wilmer Cutler & Pickering. She is also a recently-elected member of the Board of Directors for ICANN. Crawford has been interviewed in "On the Media", a radio show produced by WNYC, and maintains a blog.
- Wendy Seltzer
She has taught Internet Law, Copyright, and Information Privacy at Brooklyn Law School and was a Visiting Fellow with the Oxford Internet Institute , teaching a joint course with the Said Business School , Media Strategies for a Networked World . Previously, she was a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation , specializing in intellectual property and First Amendment issues, and a litigator with Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel in New York.
- Steve Crocker
Steve Crocker (born October 15, 1944 in Pasadena, California) is the inventor of the Request for Comments series, authoring the very first RFC and many more. He was a graduate student at University of California, Los Angeles. Steve Crocker has worked in the Internet community since its inception. As a UCLA graduate student in the 1960's, Steve Crocker helped create the Arpanet protocols which were the foundation for today's Internet.
- Andy Müller-Maguhn
Andy Müller-Maguhn is a member of the German hacker association the Chaos Computer Club. He had been a member since 1986, and in 1990 was appointed as a spokesman for the club. In an election in autumn 2000, he was voted in as an at-large director of ICANN, which made him jointly responsible with 18 other directors for the worldwide development of guidelines and the decision of structural questions for the internet structure.
- John R. Levine
John R. Levine is an Internet consultant specializing in email infrastructure, spam filtering, and software patents. He chairs the Anti-Spam Research Group (ASRG) of the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF), is a board member of CAUCE (the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email), was a member of the ICANN (Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers) At-Large Advisory Committee, and runs Taughannock Networks.
- Chris Disspain
Chris Disspain is the Chief Executive Officer of .au Domain Administration Ltd (auDA) and the Chair of ICANN's country code Names Supporting Organisation (ccNSO). Chris is also a member of the board of the Asia Pacific Top Level Domain Association (APTLD).
- Frank Schilling
Frank Schilling is a 'domain investor' and spoke about the subject during a Tech TV interview with Matt Markovich in 2002, describing those who invest in high-value generic domain names for the purpose of future development. Today participants in this space are collectively known as domainers. Mr. Schilling's bidding and investment activities helped expand the expiring domain name auction houses; and later, …
- Ira Magaziner
Ira Magaziner (born November 8, 1947?) was an aide to President Clinton and later became his chief Internet policy advisor. He is perhaps best known for starting what later became ICANN. Magaziner was first known for leading, along with Hillary Clinton, the failed Task Force to Reform Health Care in the early Clinton administration. Despite calls from some that he step down after the Health Care Program died in Congress, …
- Veni Markovski
Veni Markovski is a Bulgarian Internet pioneer. He is a graduate of the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” with Masters of Science degree in Law (1993) Veni Markovski started working on the Internet in September 1990, by becoming one of the first system operators of a Bulletin Board System in Sofia, Bulgaria. By 1993 he has founded and for 9 years was the CEO of the second in history of Bulgaria Internet Service Provider - BOL.BG.
- Robin Gross
Robin Gross is founder and Executive Director of IP Justice, an international civil liberties organization that promotes balanced intellectual property law and defends freedom of expression. Ms. Gross has represented the Non-Commercial Users Constituency (NCUC) on the ICANN GNSO Policy Council since 2005, and she is a member of the Advisory Group to the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF). Ms.
- Jean Armour Polly
Jean Armour Polly is a librarian by profession, the author of a series of books on safe Internet services ("Surfing the Internet"), and has been an active Internet user since 1991. She received her BA in Medieval Studies at Syracuse University in 1974, and her Master’s in Library Science from the same university in 1975. Polly is credited with coining the phrase "Surfing the Internet", being the author of the first known appearance of the phrase in print, …
- Tamar Frankel
Tamar Frankel has been a professor of law at Boston University School of Law since 1968. She is the author of "The Regulation of Money Managers", "Securitization", and "Investment Management Regulation". Her areas of scholarship include financial system regulation, fiduciary law, corporate governance, the Internet, and Space Law. A native of Israel, she has also taught and lectured at Oxford University, Tokyo University, and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
- Joyce K. Reynolds
Joyce K. Reynolds is a computer scientist. Reynolds holds bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Southern California, USA. She has been active in the development of the protocols underlying the Internet. In particular, she has authored or co-authored many RFCs, most notably those introducing and specifying the Telnet protocol. Joyce Reynolds served as part of the editorial team of the Request For Comments series from 1987 to 2006, …
- Michael Urvan
Michael Urvan (b. 1973), was the first individual to successfully defend against a cybersquatting domain name dispute brought against by a famous celebrity. Attorneys for Gordon Sumner, who uses the stage name "Sting", filed a complaint against Urvan on July 13, 2000 for the domain name Sting.com via the ICANN Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy and the case was sent before World Intellectual Property Organization for arbitration. On July 11, 2000, Dr.
- Tanzanica S. King
Tanzanica King joined ICANN in September 2002 and serves as Communications and Publications Manager. She is primarily responsible for art production and print communications for ICANN meetings and conferences, as well as content management for the ICANN meeting websites.
- Gabriella Schittek
Gabriella Schittek is responsible for running the ccNSO Secretariat. Before joining ICANN in January 2007, she worked for the Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries as Communications and Projects Officer, as well as at Nominet - the country code domain registry for . UK. She holds an MA degree in Political Science from the University of Passau in Germany.
- Carole Cornell
- Frannie Wellings
Frannie Wellings Frannie Wellings is Program Manager at the Washington, D.C. office of Free Press. Free Press - http://freepress.net - is a non-profit, non-commercial organization working to craft policies for a more democratic media system and more accessible Internet. Ms Wellings coordinates Free Press' policy analysis, issue briefings, coalition work, and public education activities.
- Roberto Gaetano
Roberto Gaetano Roberto Gaetano has been an active participant in the Internet and the ICANN policy making process since 1997. As a representative of ETSI (European Telecommunication Standards Institute), he played important roles in the formation of CORE (Council of Internet Registrars), the policy discussions around the U.S. Government's White Paper (International Forum on the White Paper), and the formation of ICANN's original Domain Name Supporting Organization (DNSO).
- Robby Markowicz
Robby Markowicz - Executive Assistant, Legal Kieren McCarthy - General Manager of Public Participation Kieren is responsible for increasing participation in ICANN by the global Internet community. He has a Masters in Mechanical Engineering from Nottingham University, UK, and worked as a journalist for publications including The Guardian , The Times , The Register and Techworld for 10 years prior to joining ICANN in January 2007.
- Ram Mohan
Responsible for the business operations of Afilias -- help shape the company's strategic vision and tactical direction. Lead company through successful acquisitions and expansion through M&As - including successful integration of new teams without a loss of cultural and ethical values. Ram has been instrumental in identifying and developing policies that affect Internet users today and in the future through his work with various Internet standards groups. Selected by the Philadelphia . . .
- Dirk Krischenowski
We think .berlin is just the beginning of the regionalization and localization of the DNS, comparable to the introduction of ccTLDs starting from the mid 80's. It follows the global trend of the local Internet.
- Mandy Carver
Mandy Carver - Deputy General Manager, Global Partnerships
- Doug Brent
Doug Brent - Chief Operating Officer
- Rita A. Rodin
- Jeanette Hofmann
Jeanette Hofmann , PhD in political science, is program leader for Internet Governance at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) (Social Science Research Center Berlin) continuing research of the project group "Kulturraum Internet" which she co-founded in 1994. She held a temporary position as professor in the Department of Political Science for Politics and Communication at the University Duisburg-Essen from 2003-2004.
- Sebastian Bellagamba
- Wolfgang Kleinwaechter
Wolfgang Kleinwaechter 1) Name, country, profession, email address: • Wolfgang Kleinwaechter , • Professor for International Communication Policy, • Department for Media and Information Sciences, University of Aarhus, Denmark, • wolfgang@imv.au.dk
- Pavan Duggal
Pavan Duggal is a practising Advocate in the Supreme Court of India at New Delhi, having specialized in the newly emerging field of Cyberlaw & E-Commerce law in the last few years. An internationally renowned expert and authority on Cyberlaw, Pavan has also the credit of having done pioneering work in the field of Convergence Law. He is the Founder President of Cyberlaw Asia, Asia's pioneering organization committed to the passing of dynamic cyberlaws in the Asian continent.
- Mehmet Akcin
Mehmet Akcin has been appointed to Chief Engineer of IT Operations for ICANN. He was hired by ICANN as Network Engineer in early June, 2006. Mehmet attended previous ICANN meetings in Canada and New Zealand. He also attended and presented at different meetings such as NANOG, RIPE, and CIF.
- Michael Maranda
Michael Maranda , President of the Association for Community Networking, is actively organizing regionally, and locally in the Midwest, Illinois, and Chicago. Michael is coordinating this work with attention to national issues and regional cooperation. While working as a Development Officer at a community based organization serving immigrant population, he was given the latitude to pursue funding for technology programs, and to launch them.
- Raimundo Beca
Raimundo Beca is currently a partner at Imaginacción , a Chilean consulting company, and is in the board of several companies, among which namely Puerto San Vicente Talcahuano and Telefónica Mundo 188. Prior to joining Imaginacción in 2003, he was for 11 years CRO of Telefónica CTC Chile , the Chilean local incumbent telephone company. During his tenure at CTC , the company became also the leader in the long distance, mobile, data networks and ISP markets.
- Tom Vest
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- David Conrad
David Conrad , Vice President of Research and IANA Strategy David Conrad works for ICANN as Vice President of Research and IANA Strategy. A long time participant in Internet technical circles, David first began working with Internet technologies in 1983 leading teams developing Internet-related products and services.
- Hans Petter Holen
Design, implementation, and operation of Internet services and networks. Management of multi-national project teams and organisations. Internet governance trough RIPE and ICANN.
- Marc Salvatierra
Marc Salvatierra joined ICANN as Web Content Developer in September 2006. In his role, he is responsible for making ICANN more transparent through its website and online activities. He is currently focused on evolving ICANN.org into a more usable, navigable and functional website. Naela Sarras - IANA Project Specialist Naela joined ICANN as an IANA Project Specialist in June 2005. In her role, Naela primarily works in the DNS root-zone management area.