 Dr Williams has been working in the Internet and telecommunications industries since the early 1990s, focusing on a wide variety of network governance issues including Internet architecture management, expansion of the domain name system and privacy protection.
She is an Australian international affairs specialist, currently based in Europe, with a Doctorate in Information Technology and Law on the globalisation of regulation and its impact on the domain name system and a Masters in Communication on regulating the Internet and privacy protection.
She is a former Deputy Chair of the .au Domain Administration Board of Directors www.auda.org and has worked across the full range of policy development issues with the global technical co-ordination organisation, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers www.icann.org
In an earlier phase in her career, she spent several years in Australia's Federal Parliament working on telecommunications issues, health policy research and environmental issues. She has worked extensively in developing countries particularly in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos and in the Pacific on Internet governance and country code management.
She is an accredited Australian Company Director, a member of the Australian Internet Industry Association and the Internet Society. Dr Williams is currently a Research Associate with the London School of Economics' Public Policy Group http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/LSEPublicPolicy.
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