Freddy Linares-Torres is Director of Cominstall Corp. a consulting company specialized in web-based processes planning and management. He has been President of the Internet Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Peru and President of the peruvian chapter of the Internet Society. He graduated from Universidad del Pacifico in Lima with degrees in Business Administration and in Accounting. After the undergraduate studies in Peru, he studied at University of St.Gallen in Switzerland where he started his research about the flow of user´s attention in online environment. He has participated in many regional projects related to the use of Internet for social development. In 2003, he received by Sony the Web Creativity Photo Contest Award. Currently he teaches at the Universidad del Pacifico and also writes in Via Digital in Gestion Newspaper. Graduated of the Next Generations Leaders Programme organized by ISOC. Master (c) IT Governance in Universidad Nacional de San Marcos.

Ms. Dryden currently serves as Senior Policy Advisor at the International Telecommunications Policy and Coordination Directorate at the Canadian Department of Industry (Industry Canada). Ms. Dryden is based in Ottawa.
Ms. Dryden has worked for Industry Canada since 2002 and holds a BSc. (Econ) (Hons) Degree in International Politics and Strategic Studies, specialising in Russian Studies. She has lead responsibility for Internet governance and Domain Name System (DNS) policy matters. In this role, Ms. Dryden coordinates and develops Canadian government positions and policy. Ms. Dryden also represents Industry Canada, in an ex officio capacity, on the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) Board of Directors and participates in the American Registry for Internet Numbers – Government Working Group (AGWG). She is also chair of the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). In her role as GAC chair, she also serves on the ICANN Board as a non-voting member.
Ms. Dryden also has Internet-related responsibilities within the United Nations context, including the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). In addition, Ms. Dryden has been appointed to the Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF). Ms. Dryden also participated in the Canadian delegation to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and its related preparatory negotiations in 2004-2005.

Carlos Raúl Gutiérrez is from Costa Rica and was ratified by its Legislature in December 2008 for a 5 year term as member of its newly created independent Telecom Regulatory Board SUTEL. He has been acting as Chairman of SUTEL since January 2012.

He holds master degrees in Economics from Hamburg University in Germany, and in Public Administration from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Since 1989 has worked internationally as consultant and executive for multinational enterprises in Europe and Latin America. Within SUTEL has developed the implementation of its Universal Access Fund for Broadband Access to all Public Schools based on the $170 million income of the first spectrum auction ever realized in Costa Rica, and promoted FTTh deployment with public regional electricity distributors.

Since October 2011 he represents Costa Rica at ICANNs Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) and is presently in Geneva in the seventh meeting of ITUs Councils Working Group on WCIT12.

Bertrand de LA CHAPELLE is Director of the Internet & Jurisdiction Project at the International Diplomatic Academy in Paris and a Director on the ICANN Board since 2010. From 2006 to 2010, he was France's Thematic Ambassador and Special Envoy for the Information Society, participating in all WSIS follow-up activities and Internet governance processes, including in particular the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), and was a Vice-Chair of ICANN’s Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC).

Between 2002 and 2005, he actively participated in the World Summit on the Information society (WSIS) to promote dialogue among civil society, private sector and governments, including as Director of the collaborative platform WSIS-online. An engineer, diplomat and civil society actor, he also has nine years of private sector experience, including as co-founder and President of Virtools, now a subsidiary of Dassault Systèmes.

Bertrand de LA CHAPELLE is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique (1978), Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (1983) and Ecole Nationale d'Administration (1986).

Robert Pepper leads Cisco’s Global Technology Policy team working with governments across the world in areas such as broadband, IP enabled services, wireless and spectrum policy, security, privacy, Internet governance and ICT development He joined Cisco in July 2005 from the FCC where he served as Chief of the Office of Plans and Policy and Chief of Policy Development beginning in 1989 where he led teams developing policies promoting the development of the Internet, implementing telecommunications legislation, planning for the transition to digital television, and designing and implementing the first U.S. spectrum auctions.

Before joining the FCC, he was Director of the Annenberg Washington Program in Communications Policy. His government service also included Acting Associate Administrator at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and initiating a program on Computers, Communications and Information Policy at the National Science Foundation. His academic appointments included faculty positions at the Universities of Iowa, Indiana, and Pennsylvania, and as a research affiliate at Harvard University. He serves on the board of the U.S. Telecommunications Training Institute (USTTI) and advisory boards for Columbia University and Michigan State University, and is a Communications Program Fellow at the Aspen Institute.

He is a member of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Spectrum Management Advisory Committee, the UK’s Ofcom Spectrum Advisory Board and the U.S. Department of State’s Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy Pepper received his BA. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Prof. Raymond Akwule is currently the President of the Digital Bridge Institute, an International Centre for Advanced Communications Studies. He has more than 25 years of teaching, research, and project planning and implementation experience in the fields of Telecommunications and Information Technology as well as Mass Communications and Media Studies at George Mason University in Fairfax Virginia USA. He is a Senior Fellow at the International Cyber Center at George Mason University.

He is the author of Global Telecommunications: The Technology, Administration and Policies (Butterworth-Heinemann). This book has been used as text in several major Universities in the USA and worldwide. He is also the author of numerous articles and conference presentations. Prof Akwule has taught numerous undergraduate, Masters and Doctorate level courses in several universities in the USA. He was Director of Center for Telecommunications Information and Broadcasting, which later become the Center for Media Research and Telecommunications at the Department of Communication, George Mason University.

He was one of the founders of the MA Telecommunications programs at the same university. Professor Akwule has advised many countries in the area of ICT, telecommunications and Media and has spearheaded the design and implementation of several national ICT networks as well as e-government, e-commerce and e-education programs in Africa. He has served as a consultant/advisor to numerous governments, international organizations and international and national private sector companies.

As Verisign’s chief technology officer, Dr. Burt Kaliski is responsible for the company’s long-term technology vision. He is the leader of Verisign Labs, which focuses on applied research, university collaboration, industry thought leadership, and intellectual property strategy. He also facilitates the technical community within Verisign. Prior to joining Verisign in 2011, Kaliski served as the founding director of the EMC Innovation Network, the global collaboration among EMC’s research and advanced technology groups and its university partners. He joined EMC from RSA Security, where he served as vice president of research and chief scientist.

Kaliski started his career at RSA in 1989, where as the founding scientist of RSA Laboratories, his contributions included the development of the Public-Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS), now widely deployed for internet security. Kaliski has held appointments as a guest professor at Wuhan University's College of Computer Science, and as a guest professor and member of the international advisory board of Peking University's School of Software and Microelectronics. He has also taught at Stanford University and Rochester Institute of Technology. Kaliski is a trustee emeritus of the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council, and a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society and Tau Beta Pi. Kaliski received his bachelor’s, master’s and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where his research focused on cryptography.

Reggie Henry joined ASAE in November of 1994. His responsibilities are to implement "exemplary" systems at ASAE that can serve as a model to the rest of the association community and to "ratchet-up" the use and understanding of technology among ASAE members. He has been working with and/or for non-profit organizations since 1985.

Mr. Henry speaks regularly on technology and strategy issues. Some of his most recent speaking engagements include the 2012 Great Ideas Conference, 2012 SCSAE Annual Trade Show, AICPA 2012 Commfood Program, 2011 ASAE Technology Conference, 2011 ASAE Annual Meeting, 2011 U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute Program, 2011 American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons Board Retreat, 2011 American Soybean Association Leadership Meeting, 2011 New England Society of Associations Executives Technology conference.

In 2009 he was invited by the Secretary of Smithsonian to participate in Smithsonian 2.0, a Gathering to Re-Imagine the Smithsonian in the Digital Age. Mr. Henry holds a B.S. in Economics and Computer Science from Georgetown University. Mr. Henry serves on the Technology Advisory Board of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons Board and the Curriculum Committee for the Institute for Organization Management (U.S. Chamber of Commerce).

He enjoys cooking, drawing, pottery and golf.

Steve Mills has worked at Hewlett-Packard Company for over 30 years in the research and development of products for the computer and telecommunications industries.  Mr. Mills is currently a Strategist in the Industry Standards Program Office where he leads HP’s participation in industry consortia and standards development organizations.  Prior to moving into the Standards Program Office, he managed R&D teams responsible for mid-range market and technology research, networking products for commercial servers and the development of continuously available platforms for use in the telecommunications industry.

He has actively contributed to the governance of standards development activities at the IEEE since 2001. He is currently serving as a Director of the IEEE and President of the IEEE Standards Association. 

Michael Kende is a partner and co-head of the policy and regulation sector at Analysys Mason. Michael is an economist by training, with a Ph.D. from MIT. After MIT, he spent five years as a professor of Economics at INSEAD, a business school near Paris, before joining the Federal Communications Commission. At the FCC, Michael was the Director of Internet Policy Analysis, where he was responsible for managing a wide range of policy analyses and regulatory decisions on Internet policy, broadband deployment, and mergers.

At Analysys, Michael has worked with operators and regulators in six continents, providing advice on a variety of Internet issues including Internet backbone interconnection, Internet Exchange Points (IXPs), mobile and fixed broadband deployment, Voice over IP and IPTV. His clients have included the World Bank, the IDA in Singapore, OSIPTEL in Peru, the Botswana Telecommunications Authority, AT&T, and the European Union.

Born in 1956 in Sheffield. Formed the Human League in 1978. Formed multimillion selling act Heaven 17 and British Electric Foundation in 1980. As record producer and artist has featured on recordings totalling over 50 million sales worldwide during a 35 year career to date. Martyn founded Illustrious Co. Ltd. with Vince Clarke in 2000 to exploit the creative and commercial possibilities of their unique 3DAudioScape immersive sound technology in collaboration with fine artists, the performing arts and corporate clients around the world. He also lectures extensively around the world as an expert in the fields of creativity and media and arts technology.

He is also founder of the world leading sound branding company SonicID. Martyn is a Visiting Professor at Queen Mary College, University of London, a member of BAFTA, a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts, and a founder of 5D – the future of immersive design. He has also just received an Honorary Doctorate in Science from University Of London.

Lesley Cowley OBE has been Managing Director/Chief Executive of Nominet since 2002. She is responsible for leading Nominet and for the development and implementation of strategy. She leads relationship building and liaison with Nominet members and stakeholders and international representation and leadership in the Internet field. In 2011, Lesley was awarded an OBE for services to the Internet and e-commerce. In 2010 she was the Chairman’s award winner at the Institute of Directors London & SE Director of the Year.

In 2007, she won the CBI First Women Award for Technology and in 2006 she was a top five finalist in Britain’s Best Boss awards and received a special commendation. Lesley is an elected Council Member and Chair of the Country Code Names Supporting Organisation (ccNSO) of ICANN. She is a Fellow of: The Institute of Directors, The British Computer Society, The Institute of Credit Management, The Chartered Management Institute and the Royal Society for Arts. She is a Member of The Inspirational Women Network, is a STEM Ambassador to schools and a Freeman at The Worshipful Company of Information Technologists. Lesley was a founding Trustee of the Nominet Trust charity and served on the Board of the Trust until December 2010. She is currently a Trustee of the Jenner Hall Charity. She has an MBA, with distinction.

As Director of Trust and Identity Initiatives, Lucy’s assignment with the Internet Society (ISOC) is to examine some of the major issues affecting the Internet and to develop projects that will address those problems. Prior to joining the Internet Society, she worked at the University of Oregon as a member of the Academic Computing and Network Applications Group. Her assignments with the University included work with the Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC) - a long-time partner with the Internet Society in bringing network technology and education to the developing world. She also worked with the Oregon RouteViews Project, and the University of Oregon Multicast Team.

She was an active participant in both the North American Network Operators Group (NANOG) and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and recently completed a term as Chair of the IETF Administrative Oversight Committee (IAOC). Lucy holds a Master's degree in Mass Communications from the University of Oregon and has a long history of service in non-profit organizations ranging from mental health counseling to a hands-on science museum. She has been a grant writer, project manager, and a computer programmer. She also once managed the Flying Karamazov Brothers (www.fkb.com/) and hopes to put that unique non-linear managerial experience to good use as she directs new efforts for the Internet Society. Lucy is based in Oregon, United States

Jacques Bughin is Director at the Brussels office of McKinsey & Company. Since joining by end 1992, he has worked for various offices, for about 600 projects, in various industries and mostly in TMT (Telecom, Media and Technology).

1. Concerning his cable and TV experience, Mr. Bughin has among others, (1) helped major public broadcasters worldwide in their redesign of their strategic mission and operations; (2) helped design bid for digital license for three major international media consortia in Europe; (3) assisted in the development of an digital strategy for various lead media holdings in Europe; (4) led a significant churn reduction program and a new content strategy for a pan-European pay TV operator; (5) helped about 5 major cable operators in the redesign of their triple play strategy, including network capex redesign, sales and marketing of triple play offers, and new services innovations (smart grid, 4 play, etc.); (6) led to a full redesign of operations of the largest pan-European cable operator; (7) assisted in the development of on-demand video services for lead worldwide broadcasters; (8) redefined the strategy of lead video creation and production company worldwide.

2. His extensive technology/telecom experience includes; (1) digital program platform building for media rights and advertising; (2) new-generation mobile telecom strategy for a major European media and telecom operator; (3) development of partnership hybrid model of DVB and DAB with mobile for a global mobile operator; (4) developed a growth strategy for major digital coding and automation players; (5) assessed market entry in smart television and other new generation device for a lead consumer electronics company; (6) developed a service strategy diversification for a global high-tech equipment company .

3. Finally, Dr Bughin has worked for various players in the domain of the internet. This includes: (1) a strategic analysis of the search market; (2) partnership assessment for search engines and a major world leader in on-line auctions; (3) the assessment of on-line directories vs. classified and search / portals site for a major directory player; (4) IP Video strategy for a lead pan-European portal; (5) development of new P2P model impact on digital entertainment; (6) e-commerce including social media features optimisation for global on-line retailer. Dr Bughin has co-authored many McKinsey Quarterly articles. He is a frequent speaker at worldwide conferences on media issues ( such as NAB, Midem, INMA, etc.) and has a master degree in economics from the University of Namur (Belgium) and University of Pennsylvania (US) with summa cum laude. He also holds doctoral degrees in economics.

He has lectured at many universities, including Toronto, London and Brussels. He has published about 30 articles in leading international academic journals such as Management Science, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Industrial Economics, or the Journal of the European Economic Association. He is co-authored of a book entitled “Managing Media Companies: Harnessing creativity” (with A. Aris), Wiley, 2010 (second edition).

He is a fellow of the Aspen Institute as well as of the ECORE, a think-thank on economic policy in Belgium; and a fellow of the Applied Economics of the KUL University, he co-leads the McKinsey Advisory Board on media management at INSEAD.

Charles is the Founding Chairman and current Executive Committee Member of Internet Society Hong Kong(ISOC-HK), Honorary President of the Hong Kong Information Technology Federation(HKITF) and Vice Chairman of the Digital Information and Telecommunications Committee of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce.

He is also the Chairman of The Professional Commons, the first cross-sector professional think tank focusing on issues of public interest in Hong Kong. He was also a past chairman and a co-founder of the Hong Kong Internet Service Providers Association (HKISPA), and a founding member of the organizing committee of Creative Commons Hong Kong, and former chairman of the Health Information Technology Special Interest Division of the Hong Kong Computer Society. Charles Mok is a director of Cloud Valley Networks (Hong Kong) and Hong Kong Skycloud Technology, leaders in cloud computing in Hong Kong and China, as well as an executive director of Computancy Limited, a leading new media and Internet consulting company.

Previously, Charles was the Deputy Managing Director and a co-founder of HKNet Company Limited, one of Hong Kong’s earliest Internet service providers, which was acquired by NTT Communications of Japan in 1999. Mr Mok is a member of several key Hong Kong government statutory bodies or advisory committees, including the Consultation Panel of the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority and CreateSmart Initiative Vetting Committee.

Previously, Charles was a part-time member of the Central Policy Unit, and a member of the Hospital Authority, Consumer Council, Digital 21 Strategy Advisory Committee, Transport Advisory Committee, Committee on Economic Development and Economic Cooperation with the Mainland of the Commission on Strategic Development, and Trade and Industry Advisory Board. Charles was elected as a member of the First (1998), Second (2000) and Third (2005) Election Committees in the IT Subsector. In the area of domain name administration, Charles was a former director of Hong Kong Domain Name Registration Company Limited (HKDNR) and Hong Kong Internet Registration Corporation (HKIRC), the country-code top-level domain name (ccTLD) registry for Hong Kong (.hk). Internationally, he was a member of the Policy Advisory Board of dotMobi, the generic top-level domain (gTLD) of .mobi.

At the international level of Internet governance, Charles is the Chair of the Asian, Australiasian and Pacific Islands Regional At-Large Organization (APRALO) of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). He was also an Ambassador of theInternet Society for the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2007), and a Returning Ambassador for the IGF in Sharm El-Sheihk, Egypt (2009). Charles graduated from Purdue University in the United States with Bachelor of Science in Computer and Electrical Engineering and Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, and worked in the United States with SunSoft Inc. and Digital Equipment Corporation. In 1999, he was awarded as one of Hong Kong’s "Ten Outstanding Young Digi Persons”.

Charles also writes extensively on technology, management and public policy, currently appearing in the Hong Kong Economic Journal and Apple Daily, and previously in The Sun, as well as CUP and HiTech magazines, etc. He has been also an active blogger since 2004. In 2008 he published his first Chinese book, entitled “Hong Kong 2.0.”

Grace has been covering technology for over two decades. She has had the front-row seat to witness the tech revolution from mainframe to PC to smartphones/tablet and from DOS to the Web and cloud computing.

She has travelled regularly to Silicon Valley and to other key cities to cover major tech events. She has interviewed many senior tech executives including CEOs of major corporations including Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer of Microsoft, Larry Ellison of Oracle, Steve Jobs of Apple, Phil Libin of Evernote and Vint Cerf, co-founder of Internet. Her current tech interests are centred around the post-PC era, start-ups and innovation, content ecosystems.

She was the co-founder and Editor of Computer Times which later became Digital Life, a tabloid circulated with Singapore's premier English morning daily, The Straits Times. She left this position after 18 years, opting to return to writing. She is now senior correspondent with the newspaper.

Dr Ernest Ndukwe is a professional Telecommunications Engineer, Corporate Executive and Public Servant with over 36 years of international experience in the telecommunications industry and in corporate management, majority of which have been in top management positions in private multi-national companies and in government.

He is a graduate of the University of Ife and an alumnus of the Lagos Business School, a Fellow of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (FNSE), Fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Management (FNIM) and Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Engineering, FAEng. He was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), by the President in February 2000.

He served for two terms of five years each and disengaged meritoriously in March 2010. Under his tenure at the NCC, the Commission witnessed tremendous growth and transformation, earning a reputation as a transparent and open agency. With the number of connected lines growing from about 0.4 million to about 80 million lines at the end of his tenure, Dr Ndukwe asserts that the greatest legacy of his tenor has been the democratization of communications access in Nigeria and making the benefits and impact of ICT available to the masses especially the poor and the most traditionally disenfranchised groups.

Prior to his appointment to head the NCC, Dr Ndukwe had a distinguished career in the private sector which started with employment with Radio Communications Nigeria (RCN) Limited in 1976. In January 1981 he joined GEC Telecommunications as Engineering manager and had a successful career path that culminated in his elevation to the board as Commercial Director in 1988 and Managing Director of the company in 1989. Dr Ndukwe is a past Chairman of the Administrative Council of the African Telecommunications Union and past Chairman of the West African Telecom Regulators Association (WATRA), an organization he helped pioneer. Ndukwe has represented Nigeria at various international events and is a regular resource person at international conferences including International Telecommunications Union (ITU) organised forums and events.

He is also a Vice Chairman of Telecom Development Advisory Group (TDAG) of the ITU representing Nigeria. Dr Ndukwe, on special invitation, has served as adviser to a few countries in Africa on Telecom Policy and Regulation. He is author of several papers on Telecommunications Regulation and Sector Policy and a two-time winner of African Regulator of the year award. Currently Dr Ndukwe is executive Chairman of Openmedia Communications Ltd. He is also a part time Faculty of the Lagos Business School where he heads the Centre for Infrastructure Policy, Regulation and Advancement, CIPRA. He also recently served as member of the Presidential National Job Creation Committee.

He is a recipient of several educational and civic awards including the national Honour of Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR).

A former Cabinet Minister and the first First Minister of Wales, Alun Michael he is currently a member of the Home Affairs Select Committee. He chairs the Parliamentary Internet & Communications Technology Forum (PICTFOR) and the UK Internet Governance Forum (UK IGF).

As Minister of State for Industry and the Regions he led the UK delegation to the World Summit on the Information Society (Tunis 2005) and has participated in the UN’s Internet Governance Forum (IGF) for the last five years. Keen interest in Internet Governance & Reduction of Internet-related crime. Has advocated an “e-Crime Reduction Partnership” designed to bring together Government, Parliament and Industry in the UK to develop a coordinated approach to tackling online crime. He is a member of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association’s UK Executive Committee and a strong supporter of the Commonwealth Internet Governance Forum.

Alun also chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Corporate Governance and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Civil Society.

Cisco Fellow Fred Baker has been involved in the development of the Internet since the late 1980's. He has served as the Chair of the IETF, chaired several working groups, and written or edited numerous RFCs.

He now chairs the IETF's IPv6 Operations Working Group, working with the operational community on IPv6 deployment issues. In addition, he has served on ISOC's Board and visited a number of chapters in the course of his travels.

Raúl Echeberría, of Uruguayan nationality, has been Executive Director of LACNIC (the Internet Address Registry for Latin America and the Caribbean) since 2002.

Raúl Echeberría is 43 years old, married and has four children.

He has a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from the University of the Republic of Uruguay and a Master's Degree in Information Technologies.

Starting in the early 90s, for several years he was responsible for Technologies at the National Agriculture Research Institute of Uruguay, where he played an important role in the start up and development of the Internet in Uruguay.

He has worked as a private consultant both at national as well as at international level for private companies, governments, and international organizations. He has taught courses at different universities and events held within the region.

Mr. Echeberría is frequently a presenter at numerous forums around the world.

Between 1998 and 2002 he was member of the Board of Directors of the Latin American Network Forum (ENRED), and he was also member of ICANN's Name Council on behalf of the non-commercial constituency when it was first created in 1999.

Mr. Echeberría was one of the founders of LACNIC and he has played a key role in bringing together several organizations to support this endeavor. He was Chairman of the Board of LACNIC between 2000 and 2002, when he was appointed as CEO of LACNIC, a position he holds to this day.

Based on his experience and strong involvement in the early stages of ICANN, Mr. Echeberría was hired by Oxford University in 2000 as researcher, to be part of a group (NAIS project) that prepared and in-depth analysis of ICANN's experience with its At-Large Election in the year 2000. This project was a milestone in the evolution of the discussion on public participation in ICANN.

During 2001-2002 Mr. Echeberría worked as the Coordinator of the APC program "ICT Policy Monitor in Latin America and the Caribbean", an experience which allowed his increased involvement in the development of the information society from a civil society perspective.

Mr. Echeberría has authored numerous published articles and investigations relating to different aspects of the Information Society, covering various technical and policy topics.

During the past few years, Mr. Echeberría has been actively involved in the entire process of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).

Between 2004 and 2005, he participated in the Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) created by the United Nations Secretary General and played a relevant role in the negotiations that took place in relation to this issue at the Summit in Tunis as a member of the Uruguayan delegation present at the Summit. His role in the great efforts that were necessary to achieve an agreement on Internet Governance deserved a public recognition from Ambassador Masood Khan, chair of the negotiations.

In May 2006 he was once again distinguished by the United Nations Secretary General, being chosen to be a part of the Internet Governance Forum's Multistakeholder Advisory Group, and in 2007 he was appointed once again by the new Secretary General to continue working as a member of this group.

In November of 2007 Mr. Echeberría was one of the panelists at the main session on Critical Internet Resources at the IGF meeting in Rio de Janeiro.

Raúl Echeberría is very active within the Latin American community in all matters relating to the Information Society. He regularly participates in regional intergovernmental and non-intergovernmental forums.

He is well-known for his contributions to the development of the Internet within the region. His leadership has been key in placing LACNIC in a central role both at regional as well as at international level.

Dr. Usha Vyasulu Reddi, a Hyderabad based Independent Educationist and Consultant on ICT for Development is a former Professor and Director, Centre for Human Development, Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad, and the Former Director, The Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia, New Delhi.  Earlier, she was Professor of Communication and Director, Audio Visual Research Centre, Osmania University.

With more than 35 years of experience in teaching, production and research and practice in communication and technology, Dr. Reddi has been involved with developments in national and international activities in the deployment of communication and information technologies for education and development.  She is recognized as one of the top academics and practitioners in the field of communication in India. Widely published with more than 50 international publications in books and refereed journals, she is the recipient of several international fellowships for advanced research.     She has also undertaken extensive consultancies for multilateral donor agencies in India and the Asia Pacific region.    

Her current work involves training, research and consultancy at all levels of government, private sector, and civil society.  Her recent work entailed training of government officials in India and abroad on the essentials of ICTD for government leaders, the management of an international agency and research into the areas of ICTs and community empowerment, e governance, and IT policy.  Currently, she is a specialist trainer for government officials and academics in countries ranging from Mongolia and Maldives, Armenia to the Pacific Islands.

Leslie has been actively involved in shaping the Internet's technical evolution for more than a dozen years. Her role with the Internet Society is to provide strategic leadership on important technical issues as they relate to ISOC's ongoing programs. She has worked with the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) since 1995, and was an appointed member of the related Internet Architecture Board (IAB) from March 2000 to March 2008. As the elected Chair of the IAB from 2002 to 2007, Leslie steered the IAB and the related IETF through a period of important industry and institutional change by working with diverse technical groups to align their interests and develop sustainable relationships.

Apart from her leadership role with the IAB, Leslie has been a strong promoter of the development of Internet identifiers and directory systems, which allow for the creation of standards-based, interoperable application protocols to support end-users across the Internet in their use of remote resources.

She recently published standards for DNS-based application service discovery. Leslie has served as a panelist with the National Science Foundation review committee, evaluating Internet-related research proposals submitted for funding. She holds an M.Sc. in Computing & Information Science from the University of Guelph, and a B.Sc. in Math and Computer Science from McGill University. Leslie was most recently a Consulting Engineer at Cisco Systems. Previously she held the position of Director of Directory Research at VeriSign, and Vice President for Research at industry pioneer Bunyip Information Systems, among others.

Andrei Kolesnikov began his career in the field of telecommunications in 1988 being engaged in public initiatives on launching telecommunications bridges between the USSR and the USA.

As a telecommunications engineer in the joint venture of All-Union Research Institute of Applied Automatic Systems (AUIAAS) and "San-Francisco-Moscow Teleport" (SFMT), in 1991, he introduced an e-mail system with direct terminal access and internet channel connecting computers of AUIAAS and research networks in the USA. In 1992, this system became the part of national e-mail system that united Demos, Relcom, Glasnet and other internet service providers.

In 1993, Andrei Kolesnikov was among the 8 representatives of the internet service providers who signed an agreement, which led to the delegation of country code top level domain .RU.

In 1994, Andrei Kolesnikov participated in development of the first license for telematics, and in 1995, he led the launch of the first Russian mass internet service "Russia-On-Line". ROL was the largest internet dial-up access service provider in Russia with access services deployed in more than 80 cities nationwide.

In 2000, Andrei Kolesnikov represented Russia in ECOSOC where he participated in development of the first international concept on information and communications technologies subsequently adopted by the leaders of G8 countries in Okinawa as "Okinawa Charter on Global Information Society.”

From 2005 to 2009 Andrei Kolesnikov was a Council member of Coordination Center for TLD RU, Russian national registry. He served as deputy media director of VympelCom, the Russian telecom giant. Since March 2009, Andrei Kolesnikov has become CEO of Coordination Center for TLD RU. 

Andrei Kolesnikov is a recognized expert and internet activist, and a "Runet veteran.” He is a member of program and expert committees of major Russian internet forums and conferences. In 2010, he became one of initiators of launching Euro-Asian Network Operators Group (ENOG). 

At the international level, Andrei Kolesnikov advocates Russia’s more active engagement in governance and development of the Internet, represents interests of Russian internet community and regularly contributes to international conferences and global forums, such as IGF, ICANN, RIPE, CENTR, APTLD, ITU meetings, and others. In 2009, Andrey Kolesnikov was elected to gNSO Board and became the first Russian expert who joined ICANN’s governing bodies.

Joy works for the Association for Progressive Communication (APC) co-ordinating an Internet and Human Rights projects. She joined APC in April 2011 and was a Commissioner with the New Zealand Human Rights Commission from 2002 and 2010. Joy has worked on human rights issues across government, civil society, private sector and United Nations international human rights forums from 1987-2010.

Joy is based in New Zealand and completed her Masters of Law (Distinction) at Victoria University of Wellington in 2010 (on domain name dispute resolution) and an LLB (Hons) at Canterbury University in 1987. Joy’s expertise is in human rights issues in the Asia and Pacific regions, women’s and LGBTI rights as well as human rights and the Internet. Joy is a member of InternetNZ and chairs the board of the Domain Name Commission Limited which oversees the system of domain name registration for the country code top level domain .nz.

Joy is also a member of the Pacific ISOC Chapter. In October 2011 Joy was elected by the Non Commercial Users Constituency as a Councillor for a two year term representing Non Commercial Stakeholders on the Generic Name Supporting Organisation of ICANN.

Jimson Olufuye is the CEO of Kontemporary, an IT company focusing on people, process and technology since 1995. Kontemporary is a pioneer registrars of the Nigeria Internet Registration Association responsible for the .ng ccTLD.

He is passionate about the use of technology to transform lives, create wealth and accelerate development in Nigeria, Africa and globally. He was the President of the Information Technology Association of Nigeria, 2007-2011. He is currently the Vice-Chairman of the World Information Technology and Services Alliance responsible for evangelising ICT in Africa. He is a member of ICC BASIS. He is also one of the five global business representatives to the United Nations Commission for Science and Technology for Development Working Group on Improvements to the Internet Governance Forum.

Jimson is a graduate of Applied Mathematics and Statistics from the University of Lagos in 1988 where he was awarded the Vice-Chancellor’s Prize and the College/Faculty prize for the best all round performance. He was also awarded FULL COLOURS for outstanding performance in Chess. He obtained a Master of Technology degree in Computing from the Federal University of Technology, Minna in 2000 and a Ph.D. Business Administration (Strategic Management) from the Irish University Business School, London in 2007.

Director of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) - Ministry of Information, Telecommunications, ICT, NEPAD and Relations with institution - Republic of Senegal
Mrs Ndeye Maimouna Diop Diagne currently holds the position of the ICT director at Senegalese Ministry in charge of ICT, since 2004.

She is currently Chair of AfriNIC  board.

She was Senegalese representative on G8 DOT Force and Un ICT Task Force.

She has been a computer engineer since 1994 and has worked as a technical advisor on ICT for the Senegalese Government from 2000 to 2004. From 2001 to 2002, she was ICT advisor on Ministry in charge of ICT and coordinate document of the national ICT strategy to move Senegal on Information Society.  From 2002 to 2004 she was also in charge of telemedicine strategy. 

Prior to that, she helped to install and administrate the national IP Backbone for the First Senegalese Telecommunications Company.  She takes part on activities of the forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE), she is a member of the Observatoire sur les Systèmes d'Information, les Réseaux et les Inforoutes au Sénégal (OSIRIS) and she is also the Vice-chair of the Senegalese Chapter of Internet Society (ISOC-SN) and Chair of Senegalese IPv6 Forum. Ndeye Maimouna Diop Diagne holds a degree in Data Processing, Computer Science Engineering and Technology. 

Jayantha Fernando is an Internet Law & policy expert who has pioneered and given leadership to the ICT Legal policy reform as well as Internet governance processes in Sri Lanka for over 15 years.

He played the lead role in drafting several ICT related laws, including the Sri Lankan Electronic Transactions Act No. 19 of 2006 and the Computer Crimes Act No. 24 of 2007and is presently leading efforts to formulate a Data Protection framework.  He wrote the legal contents of the e-Government Policy in 2010. In drafting legislation he was instrumental in ensuring that Sri Lanka conformed to International best practices, such as Budapest Cyber Crime Convention, UNCITRAL Model Laws as well as the UN Electronic Communications convention. He also did a USAID assignment drafting an e-Commerce Model Law for South African SADC Secretariat.

Over the past decade and half Jayantha’s multi stakeholder dialog and engagement covered a range of issues in the Internet space. He was instrumental in helping the Internet community overcome legal challenges to establish the Country’s first Internet Exchange point (2001), worked with ISP’s and Banks to support the country’s CERT-Coordination Centre www.slcert.gov.lk (2006 to date), helped re-launch the LK Domain Registry as a Non-profit Company model www.nic.lk (2004), helped establish local ISOC chapter www.isoc.lk (2011) and co-chairs the Task Force with Central Bank to establish a National Certification Authority in Sri Lanka.

Jayantha is Director & Legal Advisor at the ICT Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA – www.icta.lk ), and is part of its three member Leadership Team, responsible for the “e-Sri Lanka Development Project”, the flagship ICT4D initiative supported by the World Bank. He serves on the Boards of several entities, including LK Domain Registry and has served in numerous capacities within ICANN, including Vice Chair of ICANN GAC (2008-10) and Associate Chair of ICANN Nominating Committee (2005). He lectures widely at several Universities and has published papers and written book Chapters on a variety of Electronic Law topics.

Jayantha was trained by ISOC through its Advanced Network Training Workshop for Internet Leaders in 2001 - http://www.isoc.org/inet2001/ntw.shtml

Wolfgang Kleinwächter is a Professor for International Communication Policy and Regulation at the Department for Media and Information Studies of the University of Aarhus in Denmark where he teaches since 1998 a full Master Course on “Internet Policy & Regulation”. 

He has studied Communication, International Law and International Relations at the University of Leipzig (B.A. 1971, M.A. 1974, Ph.D. 1981) and the Moscow Institute for International Relations. 

He is involved in Internet Governance issues since the early 1990s and has participated in 41 ICANN meetings. In the process of the UN sponsored World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) he was a member of the WSIS Civil Society Bureau. He co-founded and co-chaired the WSIS Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus (IGC) in 2002/2003. In 2004 he was appointed by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan as a member of the UN Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG). 

His research work includes more than 100 international publications, including 11 books, on issues of Broadcasting Legislation, Global Information Society, Internet Governance and WSIS. 

Adiel A. Akplogan is the Chief Executive Officer of AfriNIC Ltd., the Internet Numbers' Resource Registry for Africa since 2004. With more than 15 years experience in the Internet Industry, he has previously worked as New Technology Director at CAFENet (an IT service company based in Togo – 1994-2000), then as Information System Manager of Symbol Technologies in France (2001-2003).

He has served as member of the UN Secretary General Internet Governance Forum Advisors Group (IGF-MAG from 2006-2009), in the African Technical Advisory Committee of the United Nation Economic Commission for Africa (ATAC/UNECA from 2005-2006) and in the OIF (Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie) group of Expert on Internet Governance since 1999.

As CEO of AfriNIC, Mr. Akplogan has served as the Chair of the NRO Executive Council in 2009 (Number Resource Organization – www.nro.net) and was involved with the setting up of several technical coordination bodies in Africa such as the African Network Operators Group (AfNOG) where he serves as a member of the Administrative committee and the African ccTLD Managers Association (AfTLD).

Adiel is an Electrical Engineer and holds a M.Sc. in E-Business and New Technology Management.

With a strong passion for Internet technology, he is one of the Internet pioneers in West Africa where, in early 90’s, he setup and Manage one of the very first private and independent Internet Service Providers in the region (CAFENet).

He has also contributed and written several articles on Internet and IT.

Alexa brings more than 20 years of experience in the technology industry with a track record of building internet brands and developing new markets. Alexa is the only executive in the industry who has launched a new gTLD and managed a large incumbent gTLD to market success. She served as .ORG The Public Interest Registry’s CEO from 2007 to 2010. She grew .ORG’s base by 40% and increased revenues by 81% through re-branding and re-positioning the TLD. Under her leadership PIR was named a FUTURE 50 company, recognition reserved for the 50 fastest growing companies in the Greater Washington, DC area.

Prior to PIR, Alexa was the Chief Marketing Officer and co-founder of .MOBI, the most successful TLD in ICANN’s 2004 round of launches. She also founded the DNSSEC Industry Coalition and the Registration Infrastructure Security Group (RISG), both international industry groups focused on innovative approaches to resolving security issues on the Internet. Alexa is an influential leader in the area of internet security and stability and has hosted forums and participated on many panels examining related trends and best practices.

She is a member of the Economic Club of Washington, the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, Mindshare CEO Alumni Network, and GWU Luther Rice Society. Alexa received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Maryland, and her MBA and MSIS from George Washington University.

Nii Quaynor graduated from Dartmouth College in 1972 with B.A (Engineering Science) and received a Ph.D (Computer Science) in distributed systems in 1977 from S.U.N.Y at Stony Brook.

Nii worked with Digital Equipment Corporation in U.S.A from 1977 till 1992 when he retired and returned to Ghana to establish the first Internet Service operated by Network Computer Systems (NCS) in West Africa in 1993.

Nii had earlier on in 1979 established the Computer Science department at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana.

Nii is the Convener of the African Network Operators Group (AfNOG), a network technology transfer institution since 2000 and the founding Chairman of AfriNIC, the African numbers registry

Over the years Nii taught microprocessors with International Center for Theoretical Physics in several developing countries including Sri Lanka, Mexico, China and Colombia.

Nii has served on several Boards including ICANN and had been a member of the UN ICT Task Force and also the IGF Advisory Group at UN. He is currently the Board Chairman for National Information Technology Agency, (NITA) member of GhiPPS and National Identification Agency (NIA) Boards, Patron – Internet Society Ghana Chapter.

Nii remains the Chairman of Ghana.COM and a Professor of Computer Science at University of Cape-Coast, Ghana.

Nii was the recipient of the Internet Society’s prestigious Jonathan B. Postel Service Award for pioneering work to Advance Internet in Africa in December 2007.

Alice Munyua is the Chair of the 2011 United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) held in Nairobi, she chairs the Kenya Internet Governance Steering Committee, Kenya’s ccTLD the Kenya Network Information Centre (KENIC) , the commonwealth Cyber crime Initiative Steering Committee.

She is the convenor of the East Africa Internet Governance Forum  (EA-IGF) and Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet); an interdependent multi-stakeholder network, working with government on ICT policy formulation. Ms Munyua is also Vice Chair of the ICANN Government Advisory Committee.  A former Director of the Communications Commission of Kenya, she is involved in various research and advocacy projects supported by the International Development and Research Centre and ISOC among others, which include Women and cyber crime in Kenya, Strengthening ccTLD’s in Africa, Communications Rights in the Information Society, which is aimed at promoting an understanding of communications rights and to reform governance in relation to them.

Ms Munyua has extensive experience in project management, information and communication policy and advocacy, and multi-stakeholder ICT policy development. She has over the years been engaged with the civil society on a number of initiatives involving research, development communication, capacity building, and civic education. She was involved in mobilizing African Civil Society organizations to prepare input  into the first phase of the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) process.

She chaired the Civil Society Caucus during the first WSIS Prep Com held in Geneva in July 2002. Ms Munyua holds an M.A. in Social Communications from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Italy. 

Based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Dr Aida Opoku-Mensah is Director of the ICT, Science and Technology Division of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA).

For the past 25 years, Dr Opoku-Mensah has worked on cultural, environmental, ICT, Science and Technology, as well as media/communication policies in the context of socio-economic development for Africa. Previously she worked for the Panos Institute based in London as director for Southern African Programmes, and  subsequently relocated to Lusaka, Zambia, where she established the Panos' Southern Africa regional office and served as its first director. Dr Opoku-Mensah also worked with the New York-based Ford Foundation’s West Africa office in Lagos, Nigeria.

Prior to this she lectured at London’s City University on communication policy and for many years covered African political, economic and social issues reporting for the BBC African Service as well as Radio Nederlands International – the Dutch World Service. She has written extensively on communications and ICTs for development issues in Africa. As Director of ICT, Science and Technology Division she is currently spearheading the work of ECA in the area of the Knowledge Economy in Africa. She sits on the Editorial Board of the Feminist Media Studies Journal as well as the Geospatial World Editorial Advisory Board 2011-13 and is a member of the University Advisory Council of the Accra-based African Institute of Technology (AIT), and serves on the board of Panos London. She has a BA in Linguistics from the University of Ghana, MA (Communication Policy Studies) from London's City University, her PhD from the University of Leeds, UK.

Before assuming duties of the Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information of UNESCO (July 20120), Mr Jānis Kārkliņš served as Latvian Ambassador to France, Andorra, Monaco and UNESCO, as well as the Permanent Representative of Latvia to the United Nations in Geneva.

Prior to the post in Geneva, he served as the Undersecretary of State in Latvia. Previously, he served as Counselor in the Latvian Embassies in both France and Finland. He has an Engineering degree from the Riga Technical University in Latvia and attended an executive education programme for Eastern European diplomats at Hoover Institute at Stanford University, USA.

He has also served as Chairman of the Governmental Advisory Committee of ICANN, Former President of the Preparatory Committee of the Tunis Phase of the World Summit on the Information Society.