Internet Governance

Athina Fragkouli

I am the Chief Legal Officer at the RIPE NCC, responsible for all legal aspects of the organisation. More

Farzaneh Badiei

Based in USA, NYC

Dr. Farzaneh Badiei is the founder of Digital Medusa, an initiative that focuses on protecting the core values of our global digital space with sound governance. For the past decade, Dr Badiei has directed and led projects about Internet and social media governance.She has undertaken research at Yale Law School, … More

Owen Bennett

Based in Europe

Owen Bennett is a senior public policy manager at the Mozilla Corporation, the not-for-profit tech company and maker of the Firefox web browser. His professional expertise is policy and law surrounding European content regulation, but he also follows developments in European policy surrounding cybercrime, cybersecurity, and competition. Owen has been … 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

Emile Aben

Based in Amsterdam, NL

I'm a data scientist at the RIPE NCC. I'm a chemist by training, but have been working since 1998 on Internet related things, as a sysadmin, security consultant, web developer and researcher. I am interested in technology changes (like IPv6 deployment), Internet measurement, data analysis, data visualisation, sustainability and security. … More

Stéphane Bortzmeyer

Based in Paris (France)

I work at AFNIC (the registry of .fr domain names), in the computer department, on, among other things, DNS, security, technical watch, standardization. More

Emile Aben

Based in Amsterdam, NL

I'm a data scientist at the RIPE NCC. I'm a chemist by training, but have been working since 1998 on Internet related things, as a sysadmin, security consultant, web developer and researcher. I am interested in technology changes (like IPv6 deployment), Internet measurement, data analysis, data visualisation, sustainability and security. … More

Nadia Tjahja

Based in Belgium

Nadia Tjahja is a PhD Fellow at the United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS) and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), working on the project “The contribution of global and regional multistakeholder mechanisms in improving global governance (GREMLIN)”, specifically her work looks at the legitimacy of multistakeholderism … 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

Emile Aben

Based in Amsterdam, NL

I'm a data scientist at the RIPE NCC. I'm a chemist by training, but have been working since 1998 on Internet related things, as a sysadmin, security consultant, web developer and researcher. I am interested in technology changes (like IPv6 deployment), Internet measurement, data analysis, data visualisation, sustainability and security. … More