Current Board and Staff
Paul Brooks
Chair
Paul is a trusted industry consultant, entrepreneur, broadband engineer and active participant within the Australian ISP community and industry bodies such as Communications Alliance. He was an initial founding member of Internet Australia, and a co-founder of Vocus Communications. Paul is also on the board of the InterPlanetary Networking Chapter of the Internet Society (IPN-ISOC)
Cheryl Langdon-Orr
Vice-Chair (International)
Cheryl believes the Internet should be seen as a public asset and needs to be developed and maintained as a cost-effective and accessible resource for communication, education, community, social and business opportunities by the Australian and wider global community.
Greg Adamson
Director
Greg has worked with the Internet since 1991 (a not-for-profit implementation in Indonesia). Since then he has focused on achieving societal benefit from technology. He is a Graduate member of AICD, a Fellow of Engineers Australia, and a Senior Member of IEEE. He is the Industry Fellow in Cyber Security at the University of Melbourne, and principal at Digital Risk Innovation, consulting in cyber security, blockchain, and professional ethics.
Bronwyn Mercer
Director
Bronwyn is an information security professional, passionate about the potential of technology to promote connectivity, development and human rights. She is the chair of the Australian Internet Governance Forum (known as the NetThing Forum). Bronwyn has been actively involved in the Internet governance ecosystem since 2017 and has participated in several forums, including the global IGF, ICANN, APRICOT and APrIGF.
Holly Raiche
Policy Working Group Chair
Holly is an adjunct lecturer at the Faculty of Law, UNSW, teaching undergraduate and graduate classes in the areas of telecommunications and Internet law. She is also a Research Fellow at the Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre at the UNSW, and a Research Associate at the Communications Law Centre and is on the Leadership Team of ICANN’s At-Large Advisory Committee.