Michael J. Oghia


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Region:	Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Email:	mike.oghia@gmail.com
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Twitter:	@Mikeoghia

Michael Joseph Oghia is an independent Internet governance consultant & editor based in Belgrade, Serbia. He participated as a Fellow at ICANN58 in Copenhagen, Denmark, and his involvement with ICANN includes the Non-commercial Stakeholder Group (NCSG), Non-commercial Users Constituency (NCUC), and Middle East and Adjoining Countries Strategy Working Group (MEAC-SWG).

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Michael represented the Internet Society (ISOC) as a 2015 Internet Governance Forum (IGF) ambassador to IGF 10 in João Pessoa, Brazil, and as a 2016 IGF returning ambassador to IGF 11 in Guadalajara, Mexico. He is currently the communications manager of iGmena, a program launched in 2012 by Hivos, and works with DiploFoundation as assistant curator for the Geneva Internet Platform (GIP). Michael is a third culture kid (TCK) with professional experience in conflict resolution, journalism & media, civil society, and academia, across five countries: the U.S., Lebanon, India, Turkey, and Serbia. He is actively involved in regional IGF initiatives, such as the Southeastern European Dialogue on Internet Governance (SEEDIG) and the European Dialogue on Internet Governance (EuroDIG), as well as intersessional IGF initiatives, such as the Internet exchange point (IXP) and Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) Best Practice Forums (BPFs), and various Dynamic Coalitions (DCs). Michael has lectured on Internet governance at the Media and Digital Literacy Academy of Beirut (MDLAB), as well as attended various Internet governance and media policy-related training programs, including the 2016 EuroDIG New Media Summer School and the 2016 Annenberg-Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute. He holds a Master of Arts in sociology from the American University of Beirut in Lebanon and a Bachelor of Science in sociology from the University of Louisville in Kentucky, USA. Michael also loathes referring to himself in third person.