Wolfgang Kleinwaechter
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| Country: | Denmark |
| Email: | wolfgang.kleinwaechter[at]medienkomm.uni-halle.de |
Wolfgang Kleinwaechter is Professor for International Communication Policy and Regulation at the Department for Media and Information Studies of the University of Aarhus in Denmark He has been teaching there since 1998 and current is a Professor for the course on “Internet Policy & Regulation”. [1]
His academic teaching experiences include Institute for International Studies, University of Leipzig (until 1991), Department for Communication, University of Tampere (1991/1992 and again since 2005), School of International Services, American University, Washington, D.C, (1992/1994), Department for Media and Communication Studies, University of Oerebro (2002/2003), Faculty of Journalism, Moscow State University (2008) and Heilbronn Business School (2008)
Wolfgang Kleinwaechter has a B.A.(1971), a M.A. (1974) and a Ph.D. (1981) from University of Leipzig where he studied Communication, International Law and International Relations. [2]
He has been activily involved in EU projects. From 1994 to 1998 he was the Chairman of the Management Board of the "Inter-Regional Information Society Initiative" (IRISI) of the European Commission in Brussels and coordinated the regional "Saxonian Information Initiative" (SII) for the local government of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. He was a member of FP 5 and FP 6 projects like ETHOS, IMAGINE, MIDAS and TELECITIES.
From 1997 he has been working as an evaluator for various EU programms and chaired the Safer Internet Action Plan (SIAP) evaluation team for the EU Commission in 2006. Currently he is a partner in the FP 7 project "Next Generation Internet /EURO-NF" and member of the 2008 SIAP Evaluation team.
He has been working with Internet Governance issues since the mid 1990s and has participated in all ICANN meetings from 1999 onwards. He was a member of ICANN Membership Information Task Force (MITF) and the Steering Committee of At Large (2001/2002). In 2005/2007 he was a voting member of ICANNs Nomination Committee. [3]