Network Operations

Zaher Qassrawi

Based in Palestine

Zahir Qasrawi, an information security professional, board member of ISOC-Palestine chapter, and Member of ISOC Chapters Advisory Council Steering Committee (ChAC-SC), has a B.Sc. majored in Electrical Engineering, and he also has M.Sc. in Scientific Computing from Birzeit University in Palestine. Qasrawi has several certificates and training in computer networks … 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

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

Christer Weinigel

Christer Weinigel is an independent contractor focusing on embedded software and working close to the hardware. At Netnod, he has worked on the NTS RFC and has recently been focused on Netnod's FPGA implementation of the NTP and NTS protocols. 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

Angela Dall'Ara

Policy Officer at RIPE NCC, supporting the Policy Development Process (PDP) for the implementation of accepted RIPE community policies. More

Ewan Mackie

Based in The Netherlands

IP Resource Analyst and part-time trainer from Registry Services at the RIPE NCC More

Leo Vegoda

Based in Los Angeles, CA, USA

Leo Vegoda is PeeringDB’s Product Manager. He was previously responsible for organizational planning and improvement in ICANN’s Office of the COO, and Internet Number Resources in the IANA department, as well as running Registration Services at the RIPE NCC. 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