Sam Paltridge joined the OECD as a communication analyst in the division of information computer and communications policy in 1993. His recent work in communication has been on broadband infrastructure as well as Internet issues such as international traffic exchange. He has been a principal author of the OECD's biennial Communications Outlook between 1995 and 2003.

Sam is the OECD's representative to the ICANN Government Advisory Comittee. In 2003, Dr Paltridge made presentations to the Oxford Internet Institute's broadband divides forum, the ITU workshop on promoting broadband, ITU Telecom World, the NARUC/NECA national summit on broadband deployment, the ITS Asia-Australasian Regional Conference, the NCAER International Roundtable on Telecommunications Competition, the CEPT conference and DigitalReykjavik.

Reports written by Dr Paltridge can be found at: http://www.oecd.org/sti/telecom