Agenda

Mr. Jorge Cancio is Co-Director of International Relations at the Federal Office of Communications (OFCOM), Switzerland. As such he has leadership, strategic, managerial and coordination duties over OFCOM’s International Relations team, and represents Switzerland in a number of international fora, and processes related to Internet Governance, digital policy and cooperation, data governance and artificial intelligence.

In this regard, Mr. Cancio notably participates in UN, WSIS and GDC follow-up processes, the UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD), UN IGF, Council of Europe, European Union fora, the Geneva Internet Platform, the Swiss IGF, or the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

Prior joining OFCOM in 2015, Mr. Cancio held different senior policy advisor positions within the Spanish Administration, in the fields of Copyright, Internet Law and Policy, including Internet intermediary liability, Open Data, Internet Governance, and Telecommunications. He holds a law degree from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid as well as an LL.M. from the Benjamin N. Cardozo Law School, New York. Mr. Cancio is fluent in Spanish, English and German, and has a working knowledge of French.

Ms. Isabelle Lois works as a Senior Policy Advisor on internet governance, artificial intelligence and digital policy at the Swiss Federal Office of Communications (OFCOM) since 2022. As a legal expert in public international law, she works in policy development at the international level and represents Switzerland in various international fora.

One of her main focuses is AI governance, she is serving as vice-chair of the OECD Working Group on Artificial Intelligence and part of the Steering committee of the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI). She was also actively involved on the swiss delegation negotiating the first convention on AI at the council of Europe with a focus on Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law. 

The second core focus is internet governance particularly within the WSIS (World Summit on Information Society) architecture. She is a vice-chair of the UN Commission on Science and Technology for development and actively involved in related process. 

On the national level, she is also actively involved in the implementation of Switzerland’s National Action Plan for the safety of media professionals, which was published in May 2023. 

She holds a Master degree (LL.M.) in Public International law, University of Leiden and a Bachelor degree (LL.B) in Swiss Law from the University of Geneva. She is fluent in French, Spanish, Swedish, German and English. 

Lea Kaspar is Executive Director of Global Partners Digital, where she leads the organisation’s work to advance rights-respecting and inclusive approaches to digital governance. She has more than a decade of experience supporting international digital policy processes and multistakeholder cooperation, including establishing and leading the Secretariat of the Freedom Online Coalition, a partnership of more than 40 governments committed to advancing internet freedom.

Lea has served on the UN Internet Governance Forum Multistakeholder Advisory Group, the UN CSTD Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation, and the UK Multistakeholder Internet Governance Group. She holds an MSc in Global Governance and Ethics from University College London.

Gitanjali Sah is the Head of the WSIS and Stakeholder Engagement Division at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). With more than 20 years of experience in digital policy and development, driving innovative, evidence‑based approaches to harness technology for inclusive, resilient, and sustainable progress across the UN system—including roles at ITU, UNESCO, and UNDP—she has played a central role in advancing digital cooperation, WSIS implementation, and inter‑agency coordination. She is an experienced leader in multistakeholder engagement, strengthening inclusive collaboration among governments, the private sector, civil society, academia, the technical community, and international organizations to build people‑centered, development‑oriented information and knowledge societies. She holds an M.Phil. in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge and a Master’s in Political Science from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), India. She is widely recognized as a leader in shaping global digital development agendas.

Jennifer Chung is the Vice President, Policy for DotAsia Organisation. She is the current Chair of the United Nations Internet Governance Forum Multistakeholder Advisory Group, from which she was also a member in previous years (2025, and from 2018-2020) which advises the UN Secretary General on the annual global UN IGF agenda. She was a member of the UN IGF Expert Group (2022) convened to discuss and provide recommendations on strengthening and improving the IGF as a space for ‎global multistakeholder discussion on Internet policy issues. Ms. Chung also heads the Secretariat for IGFSA which provides support to the global UN IGF, IGF Secretariat, and grants seed funding to National, Regional and Youth Initiatives.

She is a part of the Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum organizing team and works closely with APAC regional partners and communities towards strengthening and amplifying Asia Pacific views and contributions on Internet governance. She is committed to youth capacity building in Internet governance and has designed, supported, and have been invited as guest lecturer at various regional Schools of Internet Governance including APSIG, APIGA, and SSIG (GRULAC).

Ms. Chung represents .Asia Registry at Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and is a Generic Names Supporting Organisation (GNSO) councilor, making policies for generic Top-Level Domains. She previously headed the ICG Secretariat that oversaw the transfer of the IANA stewardship from the US government (NTIA) to the global multistakeholder community. Representing DotAsia, she is part of the core Secretariat of the Technical Community Coalition on Multistakeholderism (TCCM), a group of critical Internet infrastructure operators dedicated to strengthening the multistakeholder approach to decisions about the Internet’s future and its governance.

Board member of the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br). Journalist and human rights specialist with a master’s degree in public policy, she has been working for over 20 years to defend the right to communication and freedom of expression in Brazil, having participated in the drafting and approval of the Brazilian Internet Bill of Rights (Marco Civil da Internet) and the General Data Protection Law. She is a member of the Rights in the Network Coalition (Coalizão Direitos na Rede), which brings together more than 40 academic and civil society organizations working to ensure universal access to the Internet and to promote privacy and freedom of expression online.