Konstantinos Komaitis, PhD, is a veteran of developing and analysing Internet policy to ensure an open and global Internet. He is an author and a public speaker. He is currently a non-resident fellow and senior researcher at the Lisbon Council. He is also a non-resident fellow with the Digital Forensics Research Lab, at the Atlantic Council's Democracy & Tech initiative.Konstantinos has spent ten years in active policy development and strategy as a Senior Director at the Internet society, where he led successfully a series of projects, including the IANA transition. Before joining the Internet Society, he spent 7 years as a senior lecturer at the university of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, where we was researching and teaching Internet policy, with particular focus on Internet governance, intellectual property, trade and cybersecurity. Konstantinos has also worked for the New York Times and has provided strategic advice to a variety of companies and international organisations around the world on Internet governance and public policy issues. Konstantinos is a public speaker having talked at many events around the world, including a TedX talk, and a writer having written for various outlets including Politico, the Atlantic Council, Brookings, Slate, TechDirt, EuroActive. He holds two Master degrees and a doctorate and he is the author of a book on domain name regulation. He sits at the Board of IP Justice, a San-Fransisco-based NGO and he also co-hosts the "Internet of Humans Podcast". His personal website is: www.komaitis.org