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Thursday, 23 September 2004

WDR Board, Management & Research Teams

WDR Management  

The WDR management team is the LIRNE.NET management team: 
William Melody, Knud Erik Skouby and Rohan Samarajiva. Melody is Managing Director. Bruce Girard directs Internet Strategy. Amy Mahan is in charge of publications. Annette Moerk provides library support. Merete Aagaard Henriksen is WDR Coordinator. Osa Bennett is Secretary.

Research Programme Leaders 

For the current WDR Dialogue Theme the research programme leaders are,

International Advisory Board

WDR is a major project of the LIRNE.NET international collaboration of ICT research and training centers. LIRNE.NET is managed as a program of the Center for tele-Information (CTI), Technical University of Denmark, and reports to the CTI International Advisory Board. This provides access to a wealth of international experience and expertise on Telecom Reform and the ICT sector, and the implications for growth and development.

  • Chair, Dr. Pekka Tarjanne, Head of the UN ICT Task Force, New York.
  • Professor Jens Arnbak, Chair, OPTA/ET, The Netherlands; Chair, European Regulators Group
  • Professor Nicholas Garnham, Director CCIS, University of Westminster, UK
  • Dr. Michael R. Nelson, Director, Internet Technology and Strategy, IBM, Washington 
  • G. Russell Pipe, Deputy Director, GIIC Secretariat, ICS, Washington 
  • Yoshio Utsumi, Secretary-General, ITU, Geneva
  • Dr. Ewan Sutherland, Executive Director, INTUG, Brussels