The Fellowship Program

Mahmud Farooque

United States

Mahmud Farooque is the Associate Director of the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes (CSPO), a Clinical As-sociate Professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society (SFIS), and a Senior Global Futures Scholar in the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory (GFL) at the Arizona State University. His work focuses on making science more useful and democratic.

Faheem Hussain

United States

Interdisciplinary researcher specializing in information and communication technologies, global development, human displacement and public policy. Faheem's current research projects include analyzing the impact and innovation of digital communication platforms and online education strategy and digital ecosystem development.

Raquel Gatto

Brazil

Dr. Raquel Gatto is Regional Policy Advisor at Internet Society. She is also a lawyer focused on Intellectual Property, Domain Names, Privacy and Internet Governance issues. She holds a PhD in Law focused on Legitimacy of Global Regulation for Internet Governance, at the Law School PUC, Sao Paulo.

Cristina Morales Angulo

Nicaragua

Cristina is Founder and Director of Tu Tramite Express which carries out legal formalities for Nicaraguans living abroad. She is also a professional facilitator.

Zambrana Roberto

Bolivia

Roberto is the Bolivian Internet Governance Forum Coordinator, and UN Multistakeholder Advisory Group Member.

Leon Lovensky

Haiti

Social data analyst with experience in managing and building data engineering solutions, efficient in designing complex solutions and dynamic custom intelligence tools suitable for business intelligence.

Valeria Lisciani

Argentina

Valeria Lisciani is a project team coordinator at Democracia en Red, specializing in civic participation, civic technologies, innovation, public policy management, and data science. Since March 2022, she teaches at the Public Policy Laboratory and also coordinates the research group on artificial intelligence and policies at the University of Buenos Aires.

Zeina Bouharb

Libanon

Zeina is the Head of International Cooperation at OGERO Telecom, the incumbent operator in Lebanon. On Internet Governance, Zeina was appointed by the UN General Secretary as Multistakeholder Advisory Group member where she served for 3 years, representing the Public sector in Lebanon and the Arab Region

Umar Khan

Pakistan

Umar is a law graduate & now a practising lawyer who is working for human rights & promotion of digital rights in his community. Umar is also committed to working for youth rights, girls’ education and peacebuilding.

Juliana Harsianti

Indonesia

A journalist and researcher who works at the intersection of technology and the impact on society, with a gender focus and marginalized communities. Active in internet governance fora – regional and global, now serving as Secretary General for Indonesia Internet Governance Forum

Ming Zhuang

China

Ming is the founder of the Participation Center in China, and a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Since early 2000, he has introduced participatory budgeting in China, and has been engaged in PB policy research and development, capacity building, tool development, to promote and facilitate PB practices in the field.

Soma Ferman

Iraq

CEO of Realty Avenue, Architect, Humanitarian Aid worker, Realtor, Project manager, and an Entrepreneur

Raashi Saxena

India

Technologist and social impact innovator. Recognized by World Economic Forum among Six Inspirational Young Female Leaders, Raashi is a Global Shaper as part of a network of Hubs and is one of the 300 leaders of the 2020 Women Deliver Young Leaders Program.

Sonakshi Saluja

Inde

Sonakshi has over 8 years of experience in the field of climate change, environment and public policy. She has worked with many organisations to develop research and policy initiatives, particularly across India and Europe, in the areas of sustainable and renewable energy, air pollution, WASH, education, gender etc.

Natalie Pang

Singapore

Natalie is Senior Lecturer and Deputy Head at the Communications and New Media Department, as well as Principal Investigator at the Centre for Trusted Internet and Community. Her teaching and research focuses on digital citizenship, digital well-being and digital humanities.

Haseeb Ullah

Pakistan

Haseeb Ullah, a doctor of Pharmacy by profession, a social activist, human rights activist by passion. Currently working as Program Manager, First Aid & Pre-Hospital Emergency Care at Pakistan Red Crescent Society, supported by International Committee of the Red Cross.

Ronen Goffer

Israel

Ph.D, is an entrepreneur, researcher and practitioner of deliberative democracy, democratization and civic society. Ronen was a founder and director of KOL-Active: Israeli Center for Engaging Citizens in Governance and the Division for Participatory Democracy. Currently advices to participatory processes at governmental agencies, local authorities and organizations.

Andrey Shcherbovich

Russia

Andrey Dr. Shcherbovich has been a lecturer, then associate professor at the Department of the Constitutional and Administrative Law, Law Faculty of the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow (Russia). In September 2013, he completed his Ph.D. degree with a thesis entitled “Constitutional Guarantees of the freedom of speech and right to access the information on the Internet”.

Dieu Anh Le Hoang

Vietnam

Dieu Anh has five years of direct experience with development initiatives that assist underserved communities via an empowerment and multi-stakeholder approach to assure their well-being and digital capabilities

Summita Udas Shakya

Nepal

Summita is a passionate, innovative, solution-focused public and community engagement practitioner. Currently working as a public and community engagement officer at Oxford University Clinical Research Unit-Nepal (OUCRUNP)

Begüm Merve DEMİRSOY

Turkey

Begüm is President of Anka Youth Team Germany, an initiative of Anka Youth Association promoting local development of young people in Stuttgart region of Germany in entrepreneurship, leadership, technology and sustainable development goals.

Rayees Ahmad Ganie

Kashmir

Rayees is a journalist and peacemaker. He has been involved with several humanitarian organisations, initiatives, community mobilising, monitoring and evaluation, field research, capacity building, and interfaith dialogue as well as planning and implementing community-based projects with women and children in India.

Dr. Nadia Al-Sakkaf

Yemen

Dr. Nadia Al-Sakkaf is Yemen’s first female Information Minister and publisher of the Yemen Times. She is an award winning advocate for press freedoms, and gender equality and an international researcher with special interests in media, digital safety and internet freedoms, democratic transitions, gender, development and climate change.

Shah Zahidur Rahman

Bangladesh

Shah is an active MSG (Multistakeholder Steering Group) member of Asia Pacific regional Internet governance Forum (APrIGF) and The Executive committee member of Asia Pacific School on Internet Governance (APSIG). He has worked with the UN and IGF ai-iot and big data and emerging technologies expert working groups.

Stephen McCarthy

Ireland

Dr. Stephen McCarthy is a lecturer and researcher in the Department of Business Information Systems, University College Cork. Stephen's research centres on three areas: (citizen participation in the governance of IT, (the design of human-centred IT, and 'dark sides' of technology use.

Anne Igeltjørn

Norway

Anne is an award-winning social entrepreneur and the CEO of Inclusive Creation. She has been recognized by the UN as a leading innovator in Universal Design of ICT.

Claire Somerville

Switzerland

Claire Somerville is a Medical Anthropologist working at the intersection of gender and global health. Claire's research includes work on digitalization as well has primary care health studies. Claire lectures in Gender, Global Health and Gendered Bodies as well as applied research in gender, race and diversities. She is currently executive director of the Gender Centre at the Geneva Graduate Institute .

Alexandra Peca

Romania

Alexandra PECA is a youth worker and international facilitator with a formal education background in International Relations, European Studies, and Diplomacy. She has been working as a project manager for more than 4 years, focusing on the topics of youth participation, civic education, youth work, digital education, human rights.

Carolina Earle

Switzerland

Carolina is currently a Research Assistant working at the IHEID's Gender Centre on the EU Horizon 2020 funded EQUALS-EU project, which seeks to promote gender equity, and digital inclusion. In her role, amongst other activities, Carolina recently led the co-design and coordination of an EQUALS-EU Innovation Camp on “Feminism and Women’s Leadership in International Law and Policy

Iveta Kazoka

Latvia

PROVIDUS’ director and senior policy analyst in the areas of good governance and citizen participation. Her expertise is regularly requested by parliamentary committees and working groups of the Latvian government when they are elaborating new policies, for instance, regulation of political parties or citizen participation in decision-making.

Andrey Shcherbovich

Russia

Andrey Dr. Shcherbovich has been a lecturer, then associate professor at the Department of the Constitutional and Administrative Law, Law Faculty of the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow (Russia). In September 2013, he completed his Ph.D. degree with a thesis entitled “Constitutional Guarantees of the freedom of speech and right to access the information on the Internet”.

Begüm Merve DEMİRSOY

Turkey

Begüm is President of Anka Youth Team Germany, an initiative of Anka Youth Association promoting local development of young people in Stuttgart region of Germany in entrepreneurship, leadership, technology and sustainable development goals.

Désirée Zeljka Miloshevic

Serbia

Désirée is an Internet public servant, and was a special advisor to the chair of the United Nations' Internet Governance Forum Multi-stakeholder Advisory Group. Additionally, she is Senior Public Policy and International Affairs Advisor in Europe for Afilias, the domain name registry.

Simon Delakorda

Slovenia

Simon is an executive director at the Institute for Electronic Participation NGO in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The NGO is the first in Slovenia to be oriented on digital democracy research & development and information society policy advocacy.

Roxana Radu

England

Lecturer in Technology and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford and a Re-search Associate at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, Switzerland. Her research focuses on the governance of digital technologies and internet-related policymaking.

Apostolos Altiparmakis

Greece

Apostolos is from Athens and holds a MSc in International Security, specializing in Energy, Migration and European Policies at Science Po Paris. He coordinates the EU project "ABSolEU" which paves the way to ans Access to Genetic Resources recycling revolution in the EU.

Radu Gheorghiu

Roumania

Radu is president of Institutul de Prospectiva and has devised a horizon scanning mechanism which combines human evaluators and machine learning, and developed the consultation method Dynamic Argumentative Delphi. Both tools have been extensively used in large scale foresight exercises in Romania and at European level.

Alvin Prasad

Fiji

Alvin Prasad is a lecturer of Computer Science and Information Technology at the University of Fiji. He is currently pursuing his Doctor of Philosophy in Information Technology.

Shireen Nisha

Fiji

Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Fiji and currently pursuing her Doctor of Philosophy. Research interests include areas of image processing, data science and machine learning.