Community and Events

Alastair Strachan

Based in Amsterdam, Netherlands

Alastair Strachan is Community Development Officer at the RIPE NCC. In this role, he works to strengthen the RIPE NCC's engagement with the RIPE NCC membership, the RIPE community, government, law enforcement and other Internet stakeholders. Alastair also coordinates the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund which gives funding to non-commercial … More

Vahan Hovsepyan

Based in Armenia

Vahan Hovsepyan is an External Relations Officer (Caucasus and Central Asia) with the RIPE NCC. Based in Yerevan, Vahan is in charge of developing cooperation and engaging stakeholders from the respective regions, including RIPE NCC members, Governmental Agencies, Academic institutions, and industry development organisations. Among his other responsibilities, Razvan also … More

Richard Cziva

Richard Cziva is a PhD candidate from the Networked System Research Lab of the University of Glasgow. His research focuses on the development and orchestration of lightweight, container-based NFV frameworks. He has also worked with wide-area network providers such as NORDUnet, REANNZ and ESnet on projects around software-defined networking and … More

Vahan Hovsepyan

Based in Armenia

Vahan Hovsepyan is an External Relations Officer (Caucasus and Central Asia) with the RIPE NCC. Based in Yerevan, Vahan is in charge of developing cooperation and engaging stakeholders from the respective regions, including RIPE NCC members, Governmental Agencies, Academic institutions, and industry development organisations. Among his other responsibilities, Razvan also … More

Chris Buckridge

Based in Amsterdam

Chris Buckridge is an independent consultant on Internet governance and digital policy. He currently serves as a member of the UN Internet Governance Forum Multistakeholder Advisory Group (IGF MAG) and the ICANN Board of Directors. From 2006-2023, he was an employee of the RIPE NCC, and prior to that of … More

Amanda Gowland

Based in Amsterdam

Amanda was Sr. Communications Officer and Change Officer for the RIPE NCC until 2020. More

peter hessler

Based in Berlin, Germany

Peter Hessler has been a developer with the OpenBSD project since 2008. Originally from San Francisco he has an interest in how things work. He got tired of Sillycon Valley, so moved to Germany in 2008, to Switzerland in 2013, then back to Germany in 2015. In his spare time … More

Vesna Manojlovic

Vesna Manojlovic is Community Builder at RIPE NCC. Vesna joined the RIPE NCC as a Trainer in 1999. In 2003, she took responsibility for developing and delivering advanced courses, such as RPSL, Routing Registry, DNSSEC and IPv6. In 2008, she lead efforts to establish IPv6 RIPEness as a measure of … More

Daniele Arena

Based in Italy

Daniele has been roaming around the ICT infrastructure industry for more than 15 years. He is now Project Manager at NaMeX. More