George Sadowsky
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| Country: | USA |
| Email: | George.Sadowsky [at] nyu.edu |
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George Sadowsky, who was born in Russia, is an American computer scientist who has worked in a variety of positions related to the international promotion of the Internet. He is the current Director of ICANN.
George Sadowsky studied and taught mathematics at Harvard and received his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale. He worked as a mathematician and programmer, and headed computing centers at the Brookings Institution, Northwestern University and New York University. At the United Nations, he supported technical assistance projects and has worked in more than 50 developing countries. He has been a consultant to, inter alia, the U.S. Treasury, UNDP, USAID, W3C, the Swiss Government, and the World Bank. He has served on Boards of AppliedTheory Corporation, educational networks CREN and NYSERNet, and the Internet Society where he directed ISOC's Developing Country Network Training Workshops. More recently he was Executive Director of GIPI, the Global Internet Policy Initiative. He has written and lectured extensively on ICT and development.
Career History
- He is the Director of ICANN(2009-2012)
- He works as a consultant at the World Wide Web Consortium
- He was a member of the Advisory Committee at Public Interest Registry
- He worked as a Executive Director at Internews Network
- He was the Director, Academic Computer Facility at New York University
- He was a Trustee at The Internet Society