Wolfgang Kleinwaechter

Wolfgang Kleinwaechter is a Professor for International Communication Policy and Regulation at the Department for Media and Information Sciences of the University of Aarhus / Denmark. He has studied Communication, International Law and International Relations at the University of Leipzig (B.A. 1971, M.A. 1974, Ph.D. 1981) Since 1998 he teaches a full Master Course on "Internet Policy and Regulation" at the University of Aarhus. His academic teaching experiences include Institute for International Studies, University of Leipzig (until 1991), Department for Communication, University of Tampere (1991/1992 and again since 2005), School of International Services, American University, Washington, D.C, (1992/1994), Department for Media and Communication Studies, University of Oerebro (2002/2003), Faculty of Journalism, Moscow State University (2008) and Heilbronn Business School (2008). He was involved in numerous EU projects. From 1994 to 1998 he was the Chairman of the Management Board of the "Inter-Regional Information Society Initiative" (IRISI) of the European Commission in Brussels and coordinated the regional "Saxonian Information Initiative" (SII) for the local government of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. He was a member of FP 5 and FP 6 projects like ETHOS, IMAGINE, MIDAS and TELECITIES. Since 1997 he worked as an evaluator for various EU programs and chaired the Safer Internet Action Plan (SIAP) evaluation team for the EU Commission in 2006. Currently he is a partner in the FP 7 project "Next Generation Internet /EURO-NF" (2008 – 2011) and member of the 2008 SIAP Evaluation team. He is involved in Internet Governance issues since the mid 1990s and has participated in 33 ICANN meetings. He served, inter alia, in the ICANN Membership Information Task Force (MITF), the Steering Committee of At Large and ICANNs Nomination Committee (NomCom) where he was appointed recently by the ICANN Board as the Chair of the 2010 NomCom. In 2004 he was appointed by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan as a member of the UN Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) and serves since 2006 as Special Adviser to the Chair if the IGF, Nitin Desai. Furthermore he is member of the Policy Advisory Council of the Dotmobi Registry, international adviser of the Chinese ccTLD Registry CNNIC, faculty chair of the Summer School on Internet Governance (SSIG) and member of the International Council of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR).

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