Adrian Quesada Rodriguez

Affiliation:	International Air Transport Association
Country:	Costa Rica
Email:	adrianquesadarodriguez[at]gmail.com
LinkedIn:	[Adrian Quesada Rodriguez Adrian Quesada Rodriguez]
Twitter:	@koery_sky
Featured in the ICANN 48 - Buenos Aires playing card deck

Adrian Quesada Rodriguez (MSc, MA.) is a Researcher on Law and ICT and Data Protection Officer at Mandat International, currently working on multiple Horizon 2020 research projects on privacy and cyber security for Internet of Things and Smart Cities.

He has worked with DIPLO Foundation as a Policy and Technology Assistant and Curator for the Geneva Internet Platform, Consultant for the Internet Society, Mediator for the University of Costa Rica and the Ministry of Justice and Peace, and as a Research and Teaching Assistant for the Technology, e-Commerce & Telecomunications Department for the Faculty of Law of the University of Costa Rica.

He has pursued Masters degrees on both International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva and Telecommunications Economics from the Spanish National Distance Education University (UNED). Additionally he was recognized as a Privacy by Design Ambassador by the Office of the Information and Privacy Comissioner of Ontario, Canada in 2014. He is the author of a book on Data Protection on Convergent Telecommunications (for which he received the 2014 Data Protection Research Award by the Spanish Data Protection Agency).

Adrian is a three-time ICANN Fellow (ICANN 47, [ICANN 48]], ICANN 50), a previous fellow of the the Secretariat of the Internet Governance Forum (2013-2014), has been a participant and scholarship holder for multiple related events (SSIG, LACIGF, etc.).

He is currently a member of the following organizations:

• ICANN Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group (Member);

• ICANN Non-Commercial Users Constituency (Member);

• Internet Society (Global Member, Costa Rican Chapter Member);

• Central American Association for Aeronautics and Space (Board Member)
• Space Generation Advisory Council (Member);

• SGAC Space Law Project Group (Member).
• Costa Rican Bar Association (Lawyer)

Adrian has been involved with ISOC, (Costa Rica and Switzerland chapters). He has also been involved in a number of research initiatives with various organizations, studying such topics as Internet Governance, Cyber Security, e-Commerce, Intellectual Property, Data Protection and e-Democracy.