[Chapter-delegates] NEW HIRE: Toral Cowieson appointed as Senior Director of Internet Leadership Programmes

[Anya Chambers]

 Dear all

Please find below details of the most recent addition to the Internet Society staff - Toral Cowieson joins us today as Senior Director of Internet Leadership Programmes, reporting to Lynn St. Amour.

 Toral worked with us as a consultant last year to evaluate various opportunities for further leveraging and extension of our current leadership (IETF, IGF) projects and Next Generation Leadership (NGL) programme.   This expansion  relates directly to the objectives stated in our business plan, to strengthen our activities in regions, and to advance the awareness of and participation of developing countries in the work of the IETF.  Now, as a full time employee, Toral will help us execute to these objectives.  2011 will see some exciting developments as she helps us expand existing activities and reach new communities.



Welcome Toral!

Anya

 

 

Internet Society Announces Appointment of Toral Cowieson as Senior Director of Internet Leadership Programmes

Organization to Increase Focus on Internet Community Development

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND and RESTON, VIRGINIA, USA – January 6, 2011. The Internet Society today announced the appointment of Toral Cowieson to the new position of Senior Director of Internet Leadership Programmes, effective immediately.

In this role, Cowieson will focus on further developing the Internet Society’s Internet leadership programmes. She takes on responsibility for the highly successful Next Generation Leaders Programme (NGL) launched in 2010, and uniting it with the Internet Society’s long-standing Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Fellowship and IGF Ambassador initiatives.

 Her primary focus will be to build on these existing activities to create a global focus on Internet leadership to help fulfill the Internet’s promise.  She will also seek to develop and support other Internet Society activities that facilitate a greater participation in the Internet ecosystem and an expanded knowledge of Internet standards and the activities of the IETF.

Lynn St. Amour, president and CEO of the Internet Society commented: “Since the earliest days of the Internet Society we have worked to extend the Internet community through such vehicles as our Network Training Workshops (NTW’s) and more recently through programmes focused on the IETF, the IGF, and Internet technology and policy in general.  The Internet Society has built up a thriving community of Next Generation Leaders, equipping promising technologists, policy makers, and businessmen and women in emerging countries to be able to fully embrace the opportunities that the Internet presents. With this latest appointment, we are well placed to expand these initiatives to greatly increase the global Internet ecosystem’s ability to address the critical technology, policy, business, and education challenges that lie ahead.”

Cowieson brings 15 years experience working at the intersection of information and technology. Most recently, this expertise was gained at SISUTEK, a market due diligence and product strategy firm she founded. Working with clients in the US and Canada, Cowieson helped align market requirements, develop product strategy, and focus execution in accordance with her clients’ overall goals. She has previously held senior leadership roles in the strategy & alliances and product teams at Thomson/NewsEdge.  She has served as an advisor to the MIT-PEI Entrepreneurs’ Forum and on the boards of the IT Sector Council and the Innovation and Technology Association of PEI. An MBA graduate of The George Washington University, Cowieson is also the author of the Business Tool Box Series for New Hampshire Business Review.


Anya Chambers
Internet Society

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