GM May 2026: Why Did People Vote the Way They Did?

Maynard Koch

Based in Dresden, Germany

I am a PhD student and research associate at the Chair of Distributed and Networked Systems at TU Dresden, supervised by Prof. Dr. Matthias Wählisch. Before joining TU Dresden, I graduated with a BSc and MSc in Computer Science from Freie Universität Berlin. My research focuses on Internet measurements to … More

Eleonora Petridou

Eleonora is Chief Information Security Officer at the RIPE NCC and is responsible for ensuring that the RIPE NCC maintains necessary levels of Information security and compliance with best practices and applicable regulations. More

Sasha Romijn

Based in Amsterdam, NL

Sasha is an independent developer and internet infrastructure specialist, with broad experience in software and standards fundamental to the internet, and other complex software systems. Sasha is the author and maintainer of IRRD, the routing registry daemon used by many of the major IRR registries worldwide. She is also the … More

Hisham Ibrahim

Based in Dubai, UAE

Hisham Ibrahim is the Chief Community Officer at the RIPE NCC. He leads the RIPE NCC's engagement efforts to foster a dynamic, inclusive RIPE community. He is responsible for engagement with RIPE NCC members, the RIPE community, Internet governance and training services. Hisham is active on several committees in various … More

Mirjam Kühne

I studied Computer Science at the TU Berlin, Germany, and have been a member of the RIPE community for over twenty years. Currently I am serving as the Chair of the RIPE Community. More