Community and Events

Jelena Cosic

Based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Jelena is a long time member of the Internet governance community in the SEE region. As part of her work with ISOC and PCH, she supported local initiatives like: hackerspaces, IXPs, NOGs, local and regional IG meetings. She is currently working as a Community Builder for RIPE NCC focusing on … 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

Greg Wood

Greg Wood is Senior Director of Communications and Operations for the IETF Administration LLC. He previously served as Director of Communications at the Internet Society (ISOC) and, before joining ISOC, was the Director of Communications for Internet2. Greg first encountered the Internet in 1992 while working at start up university … More

Flavio Luciani

Flavio Luciani was born in Rome in 1981 and graduated in Computer Engineering from the University of Roma Tre in 2005. Since 2008 he has been in the team of Namex, the Internet eXchange Point in Rome, first as a member of the technical staff and since 2020 as Chief … More

Kjerstin Burdiek

Kjerstin Burdiek is a Communications Officer at the RIPE NCC. Prior to joining the RIPE NCC in 2021, she contributed to policy research and strategic communications at a think tank. In her educational background, she explored the intersection of linguistics and political science. She currently focuses on communications around Internet … More

Gergana Petrova

Gergana Petrova is the Specialist Community Development Officer at the RIPE NCC. She is responsible for RIPE NCC's engagement with a broad range of stakeholders, including the RIPE NCC membership, the RIPE community, network operators, academia, government, law enforcement, and other Internet stakeholders. More