Nurani Nimpuno

Country:	Sweden
Email:	nurani [at] netnod.se
LinkedIn:	[Nurani Nimpuno Nurani Nimpuno]

Nurani Nimpuno is the Outreach and Communications Manager at Netnod.

Netnod operates six Internet exchange Points (IXPs) in five locations in Sweden. Netnod is also the operator of one of the 13 logical DNS root name servers in the world, i.root-servers.net (I-root); and a provider of DNS services, such as TLD anycast and unicast slave service from close to 40 sites around the globe. At Netnod, Ms Nimpuno manages all outreach and external relations and communications, as well as all external Internet policy and Internet governance matters.

Industry Participation

She is deeply involved with Internet policy and Internet governance issues nationally as well as globally, and works on a broader level with Internet operational matters, including Internet exchange points and DNS root servers.

Ms. Nimpuno has been active in the Internet community for over a decade, frequently presenting at, and participating in international Internet conferences globally.

Nurani Nimpuno is a member of the UN Internet Governance Forum [[MAG|Multistakeholder Advisory Group and was selected in 2011 as one of five representatives of the technical and academic communities to the CSTD working group on the improvement of the IGF.

Past Work

She previously worked as the External Relations manager at APNIC, the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for the Asia Pacific region; there she worked closely together with various Internet-related organisations across the region. Prior to that she worked as the Internet Address Policy manager at the RIPE NCC, the RIR for Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East. In her work for these organisations she worked together with the regional technical communities to develop policies related to the management of Internet resources, such as IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and AS numbers.

She has been heavily involved with education, workshops, training courses, and seminars all across Europe and the Asia Pacific.