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Currently Wout is an Internet governance expert. In 2020 he published a report on the (lack of) deployment of Internet standards as program leader for an IGF pilot. This pilot followed a report on strengthening cooperation within the context of the IGF. Currently he is coordinator for the IGF Internet Standards, Security and Safety Coalition (IS3C).
Consultant and trainer/owner, De Natris Consult

Wout de Natris started De Natris Consult in 2011 after six years in national and international cooperation on spam enforcement and cybercrime. Wout has experience as a spam investigator at OPTA, was chair and coordinator of several national and international cooperation bodies and provided training in spam investigations and spam law at the global level.

Currently Wout is an Internet governance expert. In 2020 he published a report on the (lack of) deployment of Internet standards as program leader for an IGF pilot. This pilot followed a report on strengthening cooperation within the context of the IGF. Currently he is coordinator for the IGF Internet Standards, Security and Safety Coalition (IS3C).

Over the past years Wout has worked as a consultant for, among others, several ministries, the UN-IGF secretariat, Microsoft, NL Govcert, Internet Society, eco e.V., SIDN. He has organised and moderated workshops on Internet governance for a host of organisations at the national and international level. Wout has published regularly on spam enforcement and international cooperation.

Wout co-owns and consults for the digital security consultancy company MKB Cyber Advies Nederland (e.g. for SMEs and municipalities). Currently he is involved in a cyber security awareness training programme for the horticultural sector in The Netherlands.

Dr. Elif Kiesow Cortez has worked in policy advisory, project management, and academic roles on the governance of emerging technologies. Elif collaborates in a research project with the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. Elif has been appointed as an advisory board member for projects of leading institutions including the UNFCCC, IAPP, and European Research Council. She has also founded and led the AI & LegalTech Lab. Previously, Elif was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics at Harvard Law School. Her doctoral research at the Institute of Law and Economics, University of Hamburg, Germany, was funded by the German Research Association (DFG). During her doctoral studies, she was a visiting researcher at Harvard Business School and Berkeley School of Law. Elif is an expert on behavioral strategies for effective tech policies addressing cooperation problems between public and private actors. Elif has acquired research grants for projects on tech governance commissioned by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and the US National Science Foundation (NSF). Elif has been a TTLF Affiliate since 2020.