Emerging Issues

David Sullivan is Policy and Communications Director at the Global Network Initiative (GNI), where he leads policy engagement and facilitates shared learning for a coalition of technology companies, human rights organizations, investors, and academics collaborating to protect and advance freedom of expression and privacy.

JEFF JARVIS, author of Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live (Simon & Schuster, 2011) and What Would Google Do? (HarperCollins 2009), blogs about media and news at Buzzmachine.com. He is associate professor and director of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism. He consults for media companies and is a public speaker. Until 2005, he was president and creative director of Advance.net, the online arm of Advance Publications.

Assistant Director General, Culture and Creative Industries Sector, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Geneva
 C. Trevor Clarke has completed a highly successful career in the private sector representing British multinational corporation Cable & Wireless in telecommunications engineering and management. He played a key role in the telecommunications liberalization negotiations with Governments both in Barbados and in the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean states (OECS).

Veridiana Alimonti graduated in law at the University of Sao Paulo and works at the Brazilian Institute for Consumer Defense (Idec) with telecommunications and Internet issues. She is also a board member of the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br), as one of the representatives of the third sector, and part of the Committee for the Defense of Users of Telecommunications Services (CDUST) in the National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel).

Madeline has a background in new media and communications technology having worked at the forefront of print, film and web design in the private sector for many years. She now works as a Lecturer in International Politics and the Cyber Dimension at Aberystwyth University. Madeline's past research has looked at the political history of the Internet, conceptions of power and cyber security, Internet governance and the global politics of network neutrality.

Sarah Logan is a PhD Candidate in the Department of International Relations at the Australian National University. Her thesis examines online counter-radicalisation. She is also the director of a research consultancy, Mercury Associates, which concentrates on the impact of ICT on political instituions in fragile states and developing democracies. She blogs about the impact of the internet on international politics at www.ircircuit.com, and tweets about all maner of things as @circt.

Marc Crandall serves as senior manager of global compliance, enterprise, at Google, where he addresses security and privacy compliance matters regarding Google’s cloud-based services. Marc has also served as product counsel for Google, where he addressed legal issues concerning the development and deployment of Google technology.

Tracy Hackshaw is Vice Chair of the Internet Society Trinidad & Tobago Chapter. He is a graduate of the DiploFoundation'sInternet Governance Capacity Building Programme in 2008 and is now a member of their Research & Teaching Faculty. Tracy participated in the ICANN Fellowship Program at the Sydney and Seoul Meetings in 2009, at Catagena in 2010 and at Prague in 2012.