Internet Governance

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

Johanna Ullrich

Based in Vienna, Austria

I am a senior researcher at SBA Research, a research center focusing on security in Vienna, Austria. My research interests include network security (especially IPv6) and cloud security, and raising awareness for security and privacy in traditional engineering. 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

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

Farzad Ebrahimi

Based in Tehran,Iran

Dr. Farzad Ebrahimi is CEO & Founder of BITA - IoT Holding Company and Chairman & Founder of IoT Academy of IRAN. He is a Faculty Member and Researcher in IRAN ICT Research Institute. He is also deputy of IoT & Big Data Commission in Tehran ICT Guild Organization and … More

Sara Solmone

Based in London

Sara is a PhD researcher in International Law at the University of East London (UEL) and a recipient of the UEL Excellence PhD studentship. Her research interests are international law, Internet governance, State jurisdiction and human rights in the cyberspace. Her current research focuses on the extraterritorial exercise of State … More

Stephen Strowes

Stephen is a principal engineer in the Office of the CTO at Fastly, where he spends his time trying to figure out what the Internet is. He obtained his PhD in Internet routing scalability from the University of Glasgow in 2012. More

Milad Afshari

Based in Tehran - Iran

Milad Afshari is from Iran and has a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Systems Networking. He has over 8 years’ experience in the network engineering field and has been working for ISPs in Iran. Currently, he works for one of the mobile network operators MTN-Irancell as an Enterprise Network Planning … More