Alain Aina
Mr. Aina is very active in technical networking activities in Africa. He founded a private company which provides network and training services on the continent. He has been an AFNOG workshop instructor since 2000, and, since 2004, supports AfriNIC training programs. Since November 2006, he works as a "special project manager" at AfriNIC, which includes various projects and IETF activities for the RIR. Security is an area of expertise. he spends a good part of his time helping companies and ISPs in building security policies, implementing security plans, auditing networks security, etc. in Africa. He has worked as security expert on many IT projects on the continent and is a member of ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Committee.

Lesley Cowley
Lesley joined Nominet UK as Operations Director in April 1999 and has extensive management experience in both the public and private sectors together with an MBA, with distinction.
She was appointed Managing Director in 2002 and Chief Executive in 2005. She is responsible for leading the development of Nominet and the senior management team. She is particularly involved in looking after the relationships with Nominet's members and stakeholders, developing company performance and representing Nominet nationally and internationally. Lesley is an elected Council Member of the Country-Code Names Supporting Organisation (ccNSO), where she represents Europe and she is Chair of the ccNSO Participation Working Group.
Lesley is also a trustee of Kennet Housing, part of the Guinness Trust, which is a charitable Housing Association.

Echeberría, Raúl 

Montevideo - Executive Director/CEO, Latin America and Caribbean Internet Addresses Registry (LACNIC)

Raul Echeberría is member of the Uruguayan Government Ad Hoc Advisory Council in Electronic Commerce and Member of the Uruguayan Government Ad Hoc Advisory Council in Internet 2 projects. He has authored many published articles covering topics related to Internet issues. He is a regular speaker at the international fora, including regional Internet registry meetings in all the regions (ARIN, APNIC, RIPE NCC, LACNIC, AFRINIC), WSIS regional and global meetings, and Internet Society Workshop at WSIS 2003. He was member of the Name Council of ICANN and a founding member of the Non Commercial Domain Name Holders Constituency of ICANN and co-writer of the first Charter. Raul holds a Master in Information Technologies from the Universitario Autónomo del Sur, Uruguay, and did Post-graduate studies in Top Level Business Management, Unversidad de Montevideo, Uruguay.

Ulysse Gosset
Ulysse Gosset is currently anchor and executive producer of the show "The Talk of Paris", on France 24, the first French International News Channel. He is a former COO and member of the board of France 24, in charge of News and Programming and former Director of the channel project for France Télévisions (2005-2006). Prior to working with France 24, Gosset was Director in charge of national news at France 3 Television in Paris (2003-2005).
Ulysse Gosset began his career in public broadcasting where he covered international news, politics and culture at Radios France Inter, France Info and France Culture between 1977 and 1993. In 1986 Gosset was named permanent envoy to Moscow for private network TF1 French Television and spent the next seven years covering the reforms of Mikael Gorbachev, the fall of the Soviet Union and the rise of Boris Yeltsin: In 1993 Gosset was named head correspondent and bureau chief of TF1 in the United States where he covered the Clinton years and the arrival of George Bush to power. He also reported for French cable network LCI (La Chaine Info), in partnership with TF1. 
Arriving back in France in 2002, Gosset worked on the development of a privately financed, French-European television network for international consumption. In 2003 he was named National Editor of France 3 Television. 
Ulysse Gosset is a graduate of the Journalism School of Lille and is author of several books : "The Hillary Clinton Complex," 1996, Editions Lattes, Paris; "The Secret Story of a Coup d'Etat," 1991, Editions Lattes, Paris; "The Radio and Television Monopoly in France)", 1976, ESJ Press, Lille, France. 
Gosset's television documentaries include: "In the Words of the Executioners," 2000 (nominated for a Grand Reporting prize) "Drug and Immigration wars on the Rio Grande," 1998 "Crime and Punishment in America," 1995 "The Soviet Nomenklatura," 1992

Dr. Milton Mueller
Milton Mueller is Professor at the Syracuse University School of Information Studies in the United States. He directs the School’s Graduate Program in Telecommunications and Network Management. Mueller received the Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg School, in 1989. He co-directs the Convergence Center, which focuses on the technical, management and policy problems of converging media, and was one of the founders of the Internet Governance Project, an alliance of university scholars working on international Internet policy issues.
Dr. Mueller’s research focuses on property rights, institutions and global governance in communication and information. His book Ruling the Root: Internet Governance and the Taming of Cyberspace was published by MIT Press in 2002. He was invited to serve on the National Academy of Sciences Computer Science and Telecommunications Board’s study on the Domain Name System. His book, Universal Service: Competition, Interconnection and Monopoly in the Making of the American Telephone System (MIT Press, 1997) set out a dramatic revision of our understanding of the origins of universal telephone service and the role of competition and interconnection in industry development. He is currently working on a book about Internet governance in the post-World Summit on the Information Society world.

Rt Hon Alun Michael
First elected to Parliament for Cardiff South and Penarth in 1987, he became Deputy Home Secretary in 1997, with special responsibility for Criminal Justice, the Police and Voluntary Sector.
He became Secretary of State for Wales in the Cabinet (1998-1999) and in 1999 was elected the Founding First Secretary of the National Assembly for Wales until he stood down in February 2000. 
He returned to Government in 2001, and as Minister of State at Defra he had the difficult task of handling the Government’s legislation on hunting with dogs as well as being Minister for Rural Affairs and steering the Clean Neighbourhoods Act onto the Statute Book.
As Minister of State for Industry and the Regions at the Department of Trade and Industry, Alun led the UK's successful delegation to Tunis for the World Summit on Information Society during the UK Presidency of the EU and has taken an interest in achieving a consensus on the difficult issue of internet governance.
Alun worked with industry leaders as co-chair of the Manufacturing Forum and the Information Age Partnership. He was Construction Minister and Minister for Telecommunications. In that capacity he chaired the Telecommunications Council during the UK Presidency of the EU. He was Minister for Small Business and had lead responsibility for Regional Development Agencies, Company Law Reform and promoting Social Enterprise. 
Born at Bryngwran, Anglesey, on 22nd August 1943, he was educated at Colwyn Bay Grammar School and Keele University. A journalist on the South Wales Echo between 1966 and 1971, he went on to spend 16 years as a Youth and Community worker in Cardiff. He became a magistrate in 1972 and was Chairman of the Cardiff Juvenile Bench before being elected to Parliament. He is a member of the National Executive of the Cooperative Party, a fellow of the RSA and sings in the Parliamentary Choir. 
A fluent Welsh Speaker, he is married with five children and six grandchildren. He enjoys mountain walking, opera and squash.