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Shane Tews

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Shane Tews is the Vice President of the G0lobal Public Policy relations at VeriSign. She is also the Senior Washington Representative at VeriSign. She has been working at VeriSign since 2001. [1]

Ms. Tews is a member of the board for Internet Caucus Advisory Counsel, which advises and promotes the latest IT communications and techniques.[2] She is also a member of the board of directors at ITIF.[3]

Career History

Shane Tews has extensive experience working in and around the political atomosphere of Washington, D.C.. Before she joined VeriSign she was the senior representative for the Distilled Sprits Council working as a lobbyist on issues like taxation, advertisements, and other regulatory issues.

Ms. Tews has also been a part of Citizens for a Sound Economy; she has worked in Congress as Congressman Gary Frank's Legislative Director from 1992 to 1995. After being a part of the first George Bush's election campaign, she worked in the administration as as a special assistant to Transportation Secretary Samuel K. Skinner and in the Office of Legislative Affairs.[4] ====Industry Participation She was a panelist in the "Who Will Govern the Net in 2020?" panel at TechFreedom's Next Digital Decade book launch conference in Washington, DC on January 19, 2011.[5] The video of this panel can be viewed here.

Ms. Tews was a panelist at IGF 2010 Workshops.[6]

Education

She graduated in 1988 from the American University in D.C.[7] She is from Lincoln, Nebraska.[8]

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