Kaveh Ranjbar
Kaveh Ranjbar is the RSSAC Liaison to the ICANN Board. He specializes in DNS, Internet measurements, IPv4, IPv6, resource and routing registry databases, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), Internet development, IXPs, big data visualization, and Internet governance.
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| Region: | Europe | ||
| Country: | Netherlands | ||
| Email: | kaveh [at] kaveh.org | ||
| LinkedIn: |  Kaveh Ranjbar
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| Twitter: |  @kakooch
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ICANN Involvement
In 2016, Ranjbar was selected by the RSSAC to serve as Liaison to the ICANN Board. His term runs until the AGM 2022.
Current Committees
- Accountability Mechanisms | Non-Voting Member
- Risk | Non-Voting Member
- Technical | Non-Voting Member
Ranjbar has attended several ICANN meetings, including ICANN 49 in Singapore. He is a member of the RSSAC.
Career
As the RIPE NCC’s Chief Information Officer, Ranjbar is responsible for the organization’s planning, operation, and development of global information services, research, and development. Ranjbar oversees
- The RIPE NCC’s authoritative DNS services and K-root name server infrastructure
- Data collection and measurement networks, such as RIPE Atlas and the Routing Information Service
- Data provisioning systems such as RIPEstat
- RIPE NCC’s data analysis
Ranjbar has been with the RIPE NCC since 2008. Prior to that, he worked for more than 12 years in the Internet services and ISP sectors, mainly in senior technical management positions. He was the engineering founder of one of the largest Iranian ISPs and helped several IT start-ups with software and business process implementations.
Education
Ranjbar received an M.Sc. in Software Engineering from the University of Oxford and has completed Lean Engineering and Agile Management training at MIT.
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