Born in Belgrade, 1974.Studied Mathematics, Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Belgrade. Graduated from Psychology in 2004. Research focus in cognitive science: mathematical models of human judgment and decision making, causal belief revision, and psychological semantics. The other line of research is focused on studies of information society, online behavior and digital culture. Please visit http://www.milovanovicresearch.com for professional references and bibliography in both fields of study or contact me via goranm@diplomacy.edu.Currently conducting research studies with DiploFoundation and pursuing a Phd degree in Psychology at the University of Belgrade, research focus on human rationality, after two years of PhD program in Cognition & Perception, Department of Psychology, New York University, USA.

Derrick L. Cogburn is an expert in global information and communication technology policy, global governance, and the use of ICTs for socio-economic development. He is a partner in IGP, serves on the Executive Board of the International Communication Section of ISA and is President of the Information Technology and Politics (ITP) Section of the American Political Science Association. He was a founding member of the Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) and currently serves on the Steering Committee as Chair of the Communication committee. Dr. Cogburn also directs the Center for Research on Collaboratories and Technology Enhanced Learning Communities (http://cotelco.syr.edu) and serves on the adjunct faculty at American University.

Mugo is a Graduate of Syracuse University and Long Island University. Her background includes a Masters of Business Administration in International Management and most recently a Master of Science in Information Management, with a specialization in Telecommunications and Information Policy. She is currently working as a systems integration and technology analyst with Accenture in Manhattan. Prior work experience includes having worked as a Technical Advisor for the World Health Organization and a Finance Officer for Medicines for Malaria Venture.

Nanette Levinson is the 2007 chair of the International Communication Section of the ISA, and a program committee member for GigaNet '07. The Spring '08 Division Director of the IC Program at the School of International Service, American University, she has been researching Internet governance and policy issues since the late '90's with a special focus on developing nations and on cross-national and cross-sector collaboration. Additionally, she has served as a visiting prof at Sciences-Po Paris.

Rolf H. Weber is ordinary professor at the University of Zurich since 1995 and a visiting professor at the University of Hong Kong, teaching and publishing in civil, commercial and European law with special topics in Internet and Internet governance, media and competition law, international finance and trade regulation. He is director of the European Law Institute and the Center for Information and Communication Law at the University of Zurich. Besides, he is admitted to the bar of Switzerland.

Meryem Marzouki is a senior researcher with the French National Scientific Research Center (CNRS), currently with the Computer Science Laboratory of Paris 6 (LIP6). She holds a PhD (1991) in Computer Science and an ‘Habilitation à diriger des recherches’ (1998), both from the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble, France. In 2002, she started PolyTIC, a multi-disciplinary research activity, dealing with relationships between ICTs, public policies and the public space. Her current research interests include Internet governance and the transformation of the rule of law, privacy and personal data protection issues, and usages in mobile and broadband communications. Besides French academic networks membership, Meryem Marzouki is a member of the Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) and of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA). As 2008 GigaNet program committee chair, she started the GigaNet Annual Workshop on ‘Global Internet Governance: An Interdisciplinary Research Field in Construction’, which she chairs since 2008, and organized and chaired the 3rd GigaNet Annual Symposium in Hyderabad (India) in December 2008. Since 1996, Meryem Marzouki has also been actively promoting human rights in the information society. She co-chaired the UN WSIS Civil Society Human Rights Caucus as president of the French NGO IRIS. She served as president of the European Digital Rights (EDRI) association, representing it, most recently, at the Council of Europe Group of Specialists on Human Rights in the Information Society, and at the OECD Ministerial Conference on the Future of the Internet Economy. She received in 2008 the 10th Austrian Big Brother Awards ‘Defensor Libertatis’ prize, as a cosmopolitan pioneer of citizen digital rights defense. Meryem Marzouki’s publications and talks on Internet governance, human rights and democracy are available at: www-polytic.lip6.fr.

Dr. Laura DeNardis is the Executive Director of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. The author of the book Information Technology in Theory (2007 with Pelin Aksoy) and numerous book chapters and articles, she is an Internet governance scholar whose research addresses the legal and political implications of Internet standards.

After graduating from the Aristoteles University of Thessaloniki, Greece, I moved to the UK. In 2000-2001, I obtained an LLM in European, Commercial and International Law from the University of Sheffield. In 2001, I went to the University of Strathclyde (LLM in Information Technology & Telecommunications Law).My Ph.D. focused on domain name regulation. Currently, my interests expand to: the role of civil society in the IGF, issues of constitutional law and cross-sectoral cooperation.

I grew up in Germany (Heidelberg and Berlin), did a Master in Business Information Systems and then a PhD on the Information Society (Dr. Phil.). Currently i am doing a post-doc at Stanford University.

Was a United Nations staff member for 30 years, starting as a technical assistance expert in Venezuela and finishing, in 1997, as the Deputy Director of the Division for the Advancement of Women. Since taking early retirement, has consulted with many international organizations as well as teaching. Author of Invisible Governance: International Secretariats in Global Politics (2007) and Internet Governance: the New Frontier for Global Institutions (2008)