Agenda

Anriette Esterhuysen was the executive director of APC until March 2017. Prior to joining APC, Anriette was executive director of SANGONeT, an internet service provider and training institution for civil society, labour and community organisations. She was active in the struggle against Apartheid from 1980 onwards. From 1987 to 1992 she did information and communication work in development and human rights organisations in South Africa and Zimbabwe.

Jennifer Chung is the Vice President, Policy for DotAsia Organisation. She served as the co-convenor of the Informal Multistakeholder Sounding Board for the WSIS+20 review. She was appointed to the IGF Multistakeholder Advisory Group (2025, 2018-2020), and the Expert Working Groups (2022, 2026) that developed recommendations on strengthening the IGF. She serves as the Secretary and heads the IGF Support Association Secretariat which provides support to the IGF and grants to National, Sub-regional, Regional and Youth Initiatives. She serves in the APrIGF Secretariat and amplifies Asia Pacific contributions on Internet governance.

Lea oversees the development and implementation of GPD’s vision and strategy, as well as steering the organisation’s growth and development and leading its programmatic portfolio.

Since 2012, she has concentrated upon facilitating coordinated civil society advocacy in Internet Governance Forums (IGF), the NETmundial, the WSIS+10 Review process, the UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development’s (CSTD) Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation (WGEC), and various processes of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) including the WCIT, the WTPF, and the WSIS+10 MPP. 

Before joining GPD, Lea worked at the UN Democracy Fund, co-founded the Croatian UN Association, and championed the Model UN movement in Croatia. 

Konstantinos Komaitis is a resident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Democracy + Tech Initiative at the Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab). He leads the Council’s work on global digital governance and democracy and brings decades of experience in developing and analyzing internet policy to ensure an open, interoperable, and global internet.

Komaitis has more than ten years of experience in policy development and strategy. Before joining the Atlantic Council, he worked for The New York Times, focusing on data governance issues. Previously, he served as a senior director at the Internet Society, where he led initiatives on connectivity, regulation, and internet governance, including the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority transition. Komaitis also spent seven years as a senior lecturer at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, where he researched and taught internet policy, focusing on governance, intellectual property, trade, and cybersecurity.

He holds two master’s degrees and a doctorate and is the author of a book on domain name regulation. Komaitis serves on the board of the Global Network Initiative (GNI) and is a member of the Advisory Network at the Freedom Online Coalition (FOC). He also co-hosts the Internet of Humans podcast.

Andrea Calderaro is the Director of the EU Cyber Direct Programme and of the Advancing the Cyber Programme of Action initiative at the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS).

Over his 20 years of engagement in international cooperation in the cyber domain, by combining his Development Studies and International Relations background, his scholarly work and expert support has centred on technology and international relations, with a focus on cybersecurity, cyber diplomacy, transnational governance of emerging technologies, digital transformations in the Global South, and the role of the EU in international cyber cooperation. He has supported cyber capacity-building initiatives in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Central America, and within EU institutions and IOs.

He has served as a member of the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise (GFCE) Research Board, the “EU Cyber Capacity Building” Task Force (EUISS), the UNESCO Internet Universality Programme Advisory Board, the Global Internet Policy Observatory Advisory Group (European Commission), the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)’s Advisory Board on Cyber Diplomacy, and the Civil Society Information Society Advisory Council at the OECD. He has provided testimony to the House of Lords, the UK FCDO, the European Commission, the European Council, and the European Parliament, and has supported initiatives led by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and the United Nations.

He has published co-edited volumes, including “Internet Diplomacy: Shaping the Global Politics of Cyberspace” (2022, Rowman & Littlefield), and articles in Third World Quarterly, Policy and Internet, International Journal of E-Politics, and European Security, in addition to contributions in various volumes. He has served as co-editor of the Digital Technologies and Global Politics book series at Rowman & Littlefield, and his work has been featured on Al Jazeera Inside Story, BBC, Rai News 24, The New Statesman, The Verge, The New York Times, Reuters, La Repubblica, Open Democracy, Deutsche Welle, iPaper/the Independent, and Wired.

CIPESA’s Programme Manager, has seven years of ICT policy research and advocacy experience, having joined the organisation as a Policy Officer in 2007. She has facilitated and coordinated ICT policy workshops – including coordinating the East African Internet Governance Forum in 2011 and 2015. Lillian has a Bachelors of Development Studies (Makerere University, Uganda) with a Postgraduate Diploma in Project Management as well as advanced training in Internet studies. She holds a Masters in Digital Media and Society from Uppsala University, Sweden. She is also the President of the Internet Society (ISOC) Uganda.

As Managing Director, Elonnai works to strengthen and grow a unique and impactful multistakeholder organization working for the advancement of freedom of expression and privacy. She has contributed to international policy initiatives and has presented worldwide on issues of digital rights and emerging technology and the counterbalancing of governmental and individual interests and rights. She has developed research and written extensively on issues relating to privacy, cybersecurity, surveillance, intermediary liability, and emerging technologies including artificial intelligence. She currently serves as a member to a number of multi-stakeholder initiatives including as the co-chair to the Freedom Online Coalition Advisory Network, a member of the GIFCT Independent Advisory Committee, and as a member to the ChristChurch Call Advisory Network. Formerly, Elonnai was a non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the chief operating officer of the Centre for Internet & Society, India. Elonnai graduated from the University of Toronto, where she studied international development and political science.