Tatiana Tropina

Country:	Germany
Email:	tatiana.tropina@gmail.com
LinkedIn:	Tatiana Tropina
Formerly a member of ICANN's GNSO Currently a member of ICANN's ccNSO

Tatiana Tropina is an Assistant Professor in Leiden University's Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs. Before that, she was been a Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law. Her research centers around international Cybercrime and Cybersecurity and many of its aspects, including international standards to combat it, analyses of existing legislation, trends in public-private partnerships to address cybersecurity issues, how it relates to human rights, and the multistakeholder approach to fight cybercrime.

She has been conducting cybercrime research since 2002; in 2005, she became the first Russian researcher to defend a Ph.D. thesis on Cybercrime. From 2002 to 2009, she was responsible for cybercrime projects at the regional subdivision of the Transnational Crime and Corruption Centre (George Mason University, USA) in Vladivostok, Russia. She worked full-time as a lawyer and then as head of the legal departments of a number of telecommunication companies from 2003 to 2008.

This experience has led to her offering her expertise at the international level to a variety of other projects, including conducting a cybercrime study for the Global Symposium of Regulators (ITU, 2010) as well as serving as a consultant to the UNODC Comprehensive Cybercrime Study (2012-2013) and to the World Bank's World Development Report 2016 (2015).

ICANN Involvement

Tropina is or has been:

• an NCA to the ccNSO
• the Vice-Chair of the Non-Contracted Party House,
• a member of the NCSG,
• a member of the GNSO Council from 2017 to AGM 2021.

Tropina has attended many ICANN Meetings, WSIS, and EuroDIG.

International Telecommunication Union