About us

Anne-Rachel Inné is an Internet and digital transformation veteran and established leader on connectivity for communities. She also works right now as lead consultant Digital for Development, and co-founder at Africa Ultimate Expertise (AUE) in Niger.

Prior to going back to the private sector, Anne-Rachel was the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Regional Director for Africa with Ambassadorial credentials, serving as liaison to the African Union and UNECA. She worked to programme, organise and implement the ITU’s strategic and operational objectives on digital in all sectors, in Africa.

Before joining ITU, she was the Senior Vice President of Government Affairs, at the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) and the primary link to Governments of US, Canada, and more than 25 Caribbean and North Atlantic economies that constitute ARIN’s region and the focal point for International IGOs, IOs and their work. She participated to the writing of the OECD Policy Paper on: Routing security: BGP incidents, mitigation techniques and policy actions.

Immediately prior to working for ARIN, Anne-Rachel was the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)’s Vice President Government Engagement in Geneva, Switzerland, and worked for ICANN for 11 years. She served in various capacities – policy, Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), processes, and global partnerships in support of constituencies. Later, in the ICANN Brussels office, as Manager of Regional Relations for Africa for ICANN, she was instrumental in our first steps toward becoming a global organization.

She also worked as the Chief Operations Officer (COO) of the Africa Regional Internet Registry, AFRINIC, taking care of the whole registry operations, and building the community of governments’ engagement in the Registry’s public policies and processes.

Anne-Rachel worked at the IICD in The Hague, Netherlands (1998-2001) as several African, Caribbean and South American countries’ programme manager directing multi sector social development projects that were early adopters of ICT/Internet. She produced and publicized Learning by Doing: Lessons emerging from the ICT Stories Projects for the benefits of the projects and the wider community.

She was a member of the Bureau of the African Group at the World Summit for Information Society (WSIS), as a representative of the African private sector and a member of the Gender Coalition during WSIS with which she helped write Creating Your Own National Gender Programme – A Practical Guide

Anne-Rachel was an entrepreneur and consultant in the ICT4D for several years in developing economies and worked with African Union and UNECA on the African Information Society Initiative and subsequent NICI plans.

She was featured as ICT Expert in the ILO/IOM book for the AUC: African Women at the Service of the Union and a recipient of several awards for her demonstrated immense commitment and continued engagement with African communities.

She is the Chair or member of the Board of several NGOs that work in Digital Skills for all and for girls and women, Diplomacy in the digital age, African languages and ICTs and is the initiator/participant to several other initiatives around education and Internet/ICTs for Africa, by Africans. She is the God mother of other NGOs working on nutrition, health, prosperity and well-being via the re appropriation of African foods and their value chain.

Executive Director of ICANNWiki. In this role, his responsibilities include managing and carrying out all aspect of the organisations operations and activities alongside his team. Dustin was originally hired as Editor and Community Manager in June 2015. Since then he has attended a variety of conferences and worked with a diverse set of stakeholders to move the project forward in a way that benefits the Internet governance community as a whole. In addition, Dustin is Assistant Director of the Washington, DC Chapter of the Internet of Society.

Serbian-born Mr Vladimir (Vlada) Radunović is a lecturer in cybersecurity policy, Internet governance, and e-diplomacy on postgraduate and professional courses. He also serves as an expert with the Geneva Internet Platform, and leads the Geneva Dialogue on Responsible Behaviour in Cyberspace. He served as a member of the Advisory Board of the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise (GFCE) from 2016 to 2020, and a member of the Multistakeholder Advisory Group of the UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF) from 2012 to 2014. Vlada has been a lecturer, speaker, and resource person on a number of educational and training programmes and events worldwide, including within the WSIS and IGF processes. His professional and research focus is on cybersecurity, cyber-diplomacy and e-diplomacy, Internet governance, broadband policy and net neutrality, and capacity development. He holds an MSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Belgrade and a Master’s in Contemporary Diplomacy from the University of Malta. He is currently working on his PhD in cybersecurity. Vlada is currently member of the Board of Directors of Diplo US.

Originally from the Czech Republic, Dr Tereza Horejsova is currently based in Washington DC. Joined Diplo in 2012, Tereza has had an international career in academia and the non-governmental sector in the Czech Republic, the United Arab Emirates, and Switzerland. During her stay in Geneva (2012‒2016), she coordinated the activities of the Geneva Internet Platform. She holds an MA in International Area Studies and a PhD in European Studies, both from the Charles University in Prague.

Martin Rauchbauer is a senior Austrian diplomat and a tech governance expert. He is currently the executive director of the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in Silicon Valley after having served for two years as Austria’s first tech ambassador to Silicon Valley, and more than five years as head of Open Austria, and Austrian consul in San Francisco.

Martin shaped the emerging field of tech diplomacy, and was engaged in transatlantic tech diplomacy and digital human rights. He also developed digital humanism as a strategic focus of Austria’s foreign policy.

In Silicon Valley, Martin founded Open Austria’s ‘Art + Tech Lab’, and co-founded the European art, tech, and policy initiative The Grid. In 2023, he launched the Tech Diplomacy Network in San Francisco as a platform for the growing community of tech diplomats in Silicon Valley and beyond. Currently, he is focussing his research on how tech governance is conceptually based on our understanding of humans, nature, and technology.

Ms Pavlina Ittelson joined Diplo in 2017 and currently serves as the executive director of Diplo US. Her expertise is in the legal aspects of internet governance, science diplomacy and tech diplomacy, on which she is a regular lecturer in Diplo’s postgraduate and professional courses. Her research focuses on the comparative analysis of digital policies and the practice of diplomacy. Pavlina also serves as Diplo’s lead in engaging with civil society organisations on the issue of internet governance.

Prior to joining Diplo, Pavlina practised law as an attorney and worked as a legal project manager in the fields of international business, science, and technology. She received her degree in Law from Comenius University, Bratislava, and her LLM in International Business Law from the Central European University, Budapest. A native of Slovakia, Pavlina now resides in the Washington, DC area.