Rajnesh Singh is Regional Vice President for the Asia-Pacific at the Internet Society.
In this role he works with a broad range of stakeholders including governments, civil society, academia, the private sector, the technical community and influencers in the Asia-Pacific region to promote technologies, policies and best practices to keep the Internet open, globally connected, secure and trusted for the benefit of people all across the world.
Prior to joining the Internet Society, Rajnesh played founding and leading roles in several technology and private equity investment firms. He has extensive experience in business management and strategy development across multiple industries, including telecommunications, power infrastructure, agriculture, manufacturing and real estate.
He has provided consulting and mentoring support to start-ups and SMEs in the Asia-Pacific region, and has held advisory roles across multiple sectors ranging from governmental organisations to sporting organisations and the private sector.
Rajnesh has worked extensively with the technology sector, and has held several leadership roles, including Chair of the Asia-Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF) and Founding Chair of ICANN’s Asia Pacific Regional At-Large Organisation (APRALO). He has served on a number of Advisory Boards, and on Expert Working Groups for regional and international organisations on infrastructure, policy and regulatory reform, and development issues.
Latest posts
Going Virtual with Community Networks Voices in the Asia-Pacific: CNX APAC 2020
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Beyond the Usual: Challenges, Opportunities, and Insights in Asia-Pacific
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Working from Home: Keeping It Secure and Private
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APRICOT 2020: Routing Security Takes Center Stage
More than 600 of the world’s leading Internet engineers from 60 economies gathered last week at APRICOT, and it was...
Five Key Takeaways from the Summit in Asia-Pacific on Deploying, Sustaining, and Scaling Community Networks
Community networks (CNs) offer a solution to connect the unconnected billions. They are becoming all the more important as recent...
The Case for Complementary Local Access Networks by the Community, for the Community
Back in 2010, I conceptualised and started a pilot project to see how we could introduce Internet connectivity to...