Desiree Miloshevic

Desiree is an International Affairs and Policy Advisor for Afilias, based out of Europe, London. She represents Afilias and is a speaker at many national and international meetings and fora, including ICANN, RIPE NCC, CENTR, APRICOT, IETF, WGIG, W3C, ENUM UKGROUP, etc.

She also represents a country code top level domain name registry, .GI for Gibraltar at the ICANN meetings and is a member of ccNSO.

Desiree serves on the Board of Trustees of Internet Society, (2004-2007).

Desiree also serves as a Secretary on the Board of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, CPSR, the Creative Commons UK Advisory Board and Open Rights Group. She is a Special Advisor to the IGF, Chair, Mr Nitin Desai: http://www.intgovforum.org/ADG_members_chairs_Adv.htm helping convene the first Internet Governance Forum in Athens, Oct 30 - Nov 2, 2006. She started her Internet work in 1993 at Demon Internet (Thus Plc), the first UK ISP to provide internet access to individuals, in addition to corporations. There, she founded and managed Networks and Corporate Services Department, co-ordinated Business Development activities and participated in the work of informal hostmasters' policy making group, that vetted .UK applications prior to formation of UK Registry, Nominet.

Prior to joining Afilias, she was a Business Development Manager at Interactive Investor International, a Vice President of Strategic Partnerships at Virtual Internet PLC, (Register.com) where she was responsible ICANN accreditation and policy compliance and a Policy Director at the gTLD Registry, RegistryPro. In 1998, she took a hiatus and set up a music "charity" webspace MusicBank.net

[edit] Contact

• desiree [at] relax.co.uk

• Internet Society