Country: USA
Email: bnkuerbi [at] syr.edu
LinkedIn:    [brendenkuerbis Brenden Kuerbis]

Brenden Kuerbis is the Researcher and Operations Director for the Internet Governance Project (IGP).CircleID

His job responsibilty in IGP includes following and analyzing the work occurring in global forums such as ICANN, Regional Internet Registries, IETF, ITU-T, the UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF), as well as domestic venues like NTIA and the US Congress. He also actively participates in the Noncommercial Users Constituency within ICANN's policy making body the GNSO, serves as IGP's liaison to the OECD's Civil Society Information Society Advisory Council, and have organized several workshops at the IGF and other venues.Diplo Internet Governance Community

Brenden Kuerbis is a regular contributor to and co-editor of IGP Blog, does research on the political economy of global Internet policy, particularly with regard to Internet infrastructure security and its governance. He is currently analyzing the development and deployment of DNS and routing technical standards pertaining to securing critical Internet resources (e.g., DNSSEC, RPKI) using principal-agent delegation and standardization theory, and both historical and social network analysis methods. Some of his other projects are the governance of global identity systems (e.g., service provider identity (SPID)), and social network analysis of transnational policy advocates related to the area of Internet governance.Syracuse University

Several of his works has been presented at TPRC, International Communications Association, International Telecommunications Society, the International Studies Association and appeared in Telecommunications Policy, The Information Society, the International Journal of Communication, Circle ID, and info: The journal of policy, regulation and strategy for telecommunications, information and media.Internet Governance.com

He completed his doctorate at Syracuse University's School of Information Studies, and hold a BA in International Affairs from the University of Colorado and a MBA/MS in Information Technology from the University of Denver. COTELCO: | The Collaboration Laboratory

Before joining IGP, he worked in product development positions with a civic communications startup and Level(3) Communications.

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