Internet Governance

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

Rogier Spoor

Rogier Spoor, manager at SURFnet and innovator pur sang. During his student days in 1997, co-founder of the traveling DNA lab that was subsequently adopted nationally. At SURFnet, in 2004 Rogier developed SURFids, a distributed detection system that was an international success. In addition, Rogier has been at the cradle … More

Gergana Petrova

Gergana Petrova is the Community Development Manager at RIPE NCC. She helps lead the RIPE NCC's engagement with a broad range of stakeholders, including the RIPE NCC membership, the RIPE community, government, academia, civil society and other Internet stakeholders. Gergana has been working for the RIPE NCC since 2013. Originally … More

Emile Aben

Based in Amsterdam, NL

I'm a system architect/research coordinator at the RIPE NCC, where I work in the science group. 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 … More

Antony Gollan

Based in Amsterdam

I manage the RIPE NCC's Comms Team. I've been working at the RIPE NCC since 2012. For the most part I'm here to help my colleagues find the words to get their ideas across clearly. Over the years I've had quite a bit of experience with all sorts RIPE policy, … More

Rene Wilhelm

Rene Wilhelm is a senior research engineer in the R&D department at the RIPE NCC. Coming from a background in particle physics, Rene joined the RIPE NCC in 1996. His interests are in data analysis, routing, Internet measurements and visualisation. More

Fergal Cunningham

Head of Membership Engagement at the RIPE NCC 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

Benno Overeinder

Based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Benno Overeinder is managing director at NLnet Labs. NLnet Labs is a non-profit research lab whose mission is to build a bridge between academic results and practical deployment of new technology in our networks. As a research engineer, Benno is particularly interested how results from research have practical and operational … More

Hugo Salgado

Based in Santiago, CL

I'm a computer engineer at NIC Chile, the .CL ccTLD registry. I'm part of the Operations group since late 90s and now more involved in research and external projects. I'm interested in technologies like DNSSEC, Internet measurement, standarization (IETF), IPv6, whois and everything name/DNS related. More