Internet Governance

Andrei Kolesnikov

Director

Coordination Center for TLD .RU
George Sadowsky

ICANN

George Sadowsky studied and taught mathematics at Harvard and received his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale. He worked as a mathematician and programmer, and headed computing centers at the Brookings Institution, Northwestern University and New York University. At the United Nations, he supported technical assistance projects and has worked in more than 50 developing countries. He has been a consultant to, inter alia, the U.S. Treasury, UNDP, USAID, W3C, the Swiss Government, and the World Bank. He has served on Boards of AppliedTheory Corporation, educational networks CREN and NYSERNet, and
George Sadowsky studied and taught mathematics at Harvard and received his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale. He worked as a mathematician and programmer, and headed computing centers at the Brookings Institution, Northwestern University and New York University. At the United Nations, he supported technical assistance projects and has worked in more than 50 developing countries. He has been a consultant to, inter alia, the U.S. Treasury, UNDP, USAID, W3C, the Swiss Government, and the World Bank. He has served on Boards of AppliedTheory Corporation, educational networks CREN and NYSERNet, and the Internet Society where he directed ISOC's Developing Country Network Training Workshops. More recently he was Executive Director of GIPI, the Global Internet Policy Initiative. He has written and lectured extensively on ICT and development.
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Leonid Todorov

Head of Government Relations, Coordination Center for TLD Russia

Leonid Todorov is Head of Government Relations with Coordination Center ccTLD Russia. He focuses on issues of Internet governance.
Sergey Shirin

Associate professor at the Department of International Humanitarian Relations, School of International Relations, St. Petersburg State University.

http://sergeyshirin.info
Veni Markovski

ICANN Global Partnership, Regional Liaison

Veni chairs the Bulgarian President’s IT Advisory Committee and served on the Boards of ICANN, the Internet Society, and CPSR. Veni supports the work of the Bulgarian governmental Agency for Information Technologies and Communications by advising its chairman. He has chaired the ICANN Membership Implementation Task Force. He has also been expert to several Bulgarian Parliaments, and is among the contributors to different laws, among them the Telecommunications Act, the Penal Code (computer crimes chapter), the Electronic Document and Digital Signature Law, the Copyright Law, and others.
Wolfgang Kleinwachter

Professor for International Communication Policy and Regulation at the Department for Media and Information Sciences of the Unversity of Aarhus

He has studied Communication, International Law and International Relations at the University of Leipzig (B.A. 1971, M.A. 1974, Ph.D. 1981). His Academic Teaching Experiences includes Institute for International Studies, University of Leipzig (until 1991), Department for Communication, University of Tampere (1991/1992 and again since 2005), School of International Services, American University, Washington, D.C, (1992/1994) and Department for Media and Communication Studies, University of Oerebro (2002/2003). Since 1998 he teaches a full Course on "Internet Policy and Regulation" at the
He has studied Communication, International Law and International Relations at the University of Leipzig (B.A. 1971, M.A. 1974, Ph.D. 1981). His Academic Teaching Experiences includes Institute for International Studies, University of Leipzig (until 1991), Department for Communication, University of Tampere (1991/1992 and again since 2005), School of International Services, American University, Washington, D.C, (1992/1994) and Department for Media and Communication Studies, University of Oerebro (2002/2003). Since 1998 he teaches a full Course on "Internet Policy and Regulation" at the University of Aarhus.
wolfgang.kleinwaechter@medienkomm.uni-halle.de
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