Technology and Innovation

Sankalp Basavaraj

Based in Oberkochen, Germany

Sankalp Basavaraj is a Senior Architect who has helped 300+ companies worldwide in efficiently enabling their internet presence. His expertise spans across multiple tech arenas such as web performance, analytics, enterprise/cyber security and network engineering. He is serving member of advisory Panel in INTERNET STANDARDS, SECURITY AND SAFETY COALITION (IS3C). … More

Corinne Cath

Dr. Corinne Cath is the Vice President of Research at the Open Technology Fund (OTF), an independent organization dedicated to supporting Internet Freedom. She is an anthropologist of technology development and holds a PhD from the University of Oxford. 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

Ivo Dijkhuis

Based in Amsterdam

I work as Senior Information Security Officer for the RIPE NCC. Before that, I worked for several Internet related companies in various technical and security related roles. I'm interested in all aspects of information security and privacy, which includes a wide range of topic from information security frameworks (ISO 27001, … More

Suzanne Taylor

Suzanne Taylor is a Public Policy & Internet Governance Consultant. In her work with the RIPE NCC, she has engaged with a broad range of Internet stakeholders including the RIPE NCC membership, governments, law enforcement and intergovernmental organisations. From 2012 to 2016, she worked in communications at the RIPE NCC … 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

Felipe Victolla Silveira

I am the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the RIPE NCC, overseeing IT engineering, DNS, Internet measurement services—including RIPEstat, RIS and Atlas—and software development, which encompasses the RIPE Database, LIR Portal, and RPKI. I joined the RIPE NCC in 2012 as a Software Engineer and have since held various roles … More

Niels ten Oever

Based in Amsterdam

Niels is a postdoctoral researcher with the ‘Making the hidden visible: Co-designing for public values in standards-making and governance’-project at the Media Studies department at the University of Amsterdam. He is also a research fellow with the Centre for Internet and Human Rights at the European University Viadrina and an … More

Nevil Brownlee

Based in Taupo, New Zealand

Nevil started work at the University of Auckland's Computer Centre in 1971, developed the University's internal network, then the Kawaihiko ( NZ Universities) network, which used NeTraMet, his Traffic Flow Monitoring system. He has been active in the IETF since 1992. From 1990 onward he's been a CAIDA Staff member. … More

Felipe Victolla Silveira

I am the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the RIPE NCC, overseeing IT engineering, DNS, Internet measurement services—including RIPEstat, RIS and Atlas—and software development, which encompasses the RIPE Database, LIR Portal, and RPKI. I joined the RIPE NCC in 2012 as a Software Engineer and have since held various roles … More