Joanna Kulesza

Organization:	University of Lodz
Affiliation:	ALAC, Fellowship Program, GNSO
Region:	Europe
Country:	Poland
Email:	joannakulesza@gmail.com
Website:	Kulesza's UniLodz Profile
LinkedIn:	Joanna Kulesza
Twitter:	@KuleszaJ
Currently a member of ICANN's ALAC

Dr. Joanna Kulesza is a tenured professor of international law at the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Lodz, Poland. She serves as a member of the Scientific Committee supporting the European Union's Fundamental Rights Agency and represents European users at ICANN's At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC). She has been a visiting lecturer with the Oxford Internet Institute, Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law, Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster and Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen. Kulesza has served as an expert for the Council of Europe on human rights online (Ukraine 2015, Moldova 2016) and supports with her expertise the Sino-European Cybersecurity Dialogue. She is also a reviewer for the EU COST program and a faculty member of the Program on Cybersecurity and Internet Governance at Indiana University Bloomington. She chairs the Membership Committee of the Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet).

ICANN and Internet Governance Participation

Kulesza has been an NCUC member since 2010 and was an ICANN 58 Fellow. In 2018 she was selected by the NomCom to serve on the ALAC, representing European users, and in 2020, she became the Vice Chair.

Education

Kulesza holds an MA and a PhD in law from the University of Lodz, Poland. She was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge and Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich.

Publications

She is the author of numerous publications on international Internet law, including “Cybersecurity and Human Rights in the Age of Cyberveillance” (together with R. Balleste, Rowman and Littlefield 2015) and “Due Diligence in International Law” (BRILL 2016). Her research focus is on the intersection of human rights and cybersecurity.

At-Large Advisory Committee. Considers and provides advice on the activities of ICANN related to the interests of individual Internet users (ICANN Bylaws). Not to be confused with the Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group.

Generic Names Supporting Organization. Develops and recommends to the Board substantive policies relating to generic top-level domains and other responsibilities set forth in the Bylaws (ICANN Bylaws).