Liz Williams

Dr Williams has been working in the Internet industry since the early 1990s and is now based in ICANN's Brussels office. She brings to ICANN comprehensive policy development and regulatory affairs experience in telecommunications and Internet governance in North America, the Asia Pacific region and Australia for both governments and the private sector. She has extensive project management experience in developing countries and continues her interest in Internet developments in Mekong countries.

She is a former Deputy Chair of the .au Domain Administration Board of Directors and has worked across the ICANN registrars' and registries' constituencies on a wide variety of policy issues. She also has significant commercial experience in the industry having advised registrars and registries about opportunities in the ICANN environment and, on occasion, has advised ICANN on specific policy development and domain name space expansion efforts.

Dr Williams is an international affairs specialiist with a doctorate in information technology and law on the globlisation of regulation and its impact on the domain name system and a masters in communication on regulating the Internet and privacy protection.

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• Lizwilliams [at] lizwilliams.net