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APNIC

Jia Rong Low

Jia Rong Low Jia Rong is an experienced senior leader in the Internet technology industry.

Prior to joining APNIC, Jia Rong established ICANN’s Asia Pacific regional office, where he spearheaded ICANN’s globalization strategy and oversaw its operations in the region as Managing Director – Asia Pacific.

During his 11-year tenure with ICANN, Jia Rong contributed significantly to the Asia Pacific Internet community and established key partnerships with Internet community stakeholders, government bodies, and regional institutions. Jia Rong also served on the Public Technical Identifiers (PTI) Board of Directors.

Prior to joining ICANN, Jia Rong served at Singbridge International, a Singapore government-linked company specializing in sustainable urban development projects. A former diplomat, Jia Rong worked for Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and served as First Secretary (Political) at the Singapore Embassy in Hanoi, Viet Nam.

Jia Rong graduated with a Bachelor of Communications Studies at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University. He also holds a Diploma in International Trade Law from WTO in Geneva, Switzerland.

Jia Rong speaks English, Chinese (Mandarin), and Vietnamese.

ARIN

John Curran

John Curran is the President and CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), responsible for leading the organization in its mission of managing the distribution of Internet number resources in its geographic region. He was also a founder of ARIN and served as its chairman from inception through early 2009. John’s experience in the Internet industry includes serving as CTO and COO for ServerVault, which provides highly secure, fully managed infrastructure solutions for sensitive federal government and commercial applications.

Before this, he was CTO for XO Communications, and was integral in leading the organization’s technical initiatives, network architecture, and design of leading-edge capabilities built into the company’s nationwide network.

Mr Curran also served as CTO for BBN/GTE Internetworking, where he was responsible for the organization’s strategic technology direction. He led BBN’s technical evolution from one of the earliest Internet Service Providers through its growth and eventual acquisition by GTE.

He has also been an active participant in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), having both co-chaired the IETF Operations and Network Management Area and served as a member of the IPng (IPv6) Directorate.

LACNIC

Ernesto Majó

Ernesto Majó is currently the Executive Director/CEO of LACNIC, a role he assumed in 2024. From 2015 until his current appointment, he served as Deputy Executive Director, where he played a key role in strengthening the institution and consolidating strategic relationships. Throughout this period, he was instrumental in managing communications with stakeholders and in articulating alliances and cooperation projects, promoting the development of the LACNIC community in the region.

Prior to his position as Deputy Executive Director, Ernesto held other leadership roles within LACNIC, including his time as the first Coordinator of the FRIDA Program, and his work as Interim Executive Director from June 2014 to February 2015. Prior to joining LACNIC, Ernesto held positions of responsibility in technology transfer and research organizations in the Uruguayan agricultural sector. He also served as consultant to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the IDB.

RIPE NCC

Hans Petter Holen

Hans Petter Holen has been active in the RIPE community and the Internet industry for over thirty years. He was RIPE Chair from 2014 to 2020, when he took on the position of Managing Director for the RIPE NCC. He has extensive first-hand knowledge of IP address policy development from his time as Chair of the RIPE Address Policy Working Group. Hans Petter was also a part of ICANN’s ASO Address Council from its creation in 1999 until 2013, serving for ten years in total as Chair and then as Co-Chair. Subsequently, he served on the ICANN Nomination Committee for five years.

In 1991, he was one of the founders of Oslonett, one of the first Internet Service Providers in Norway. He worked in Norway, Sweden and
Denmark, building networks and Internet services for Schibsted Nett, Scandinavia Online and the city guides Allt om Stockholm and Alt om
København. He then took on the position of technical manager in Tiscali in Norway and later worked as the Nordic Network Director. Before starting at the RIPE NCC he worked for Visma for fifteen years initially as the IT Director and later as the Chief Information Security Officer. He graduated from the University of Oslo with a degree in Informatics, Mathematics and Physics in 1988.