Starting November 1st, I will work for Microsoft Switzerland. More details on my function and responsibilities there soon to come.
Before switching to the private sector, I worked as a Senior Researcher and lecturer at the Departement of International Relations at the Center for Comparative and International Studies in Zurich.
In 2003, I finished my dissertation on the emergence of the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers. After that, I was a Senior Fellow at Harvard's National Center for Digital Government.
From an academic perspective, my research interests focus on regulatory problems at the intersection of new and international communication technologies, the private sector, civil society and public policy.
In this respect, I am particularly interested in the increasing capability of the private sector to act as a key alternative producer of governance functions in international affairs, or the increasing willingness (need?) of traditional nation-states to share their powers with private actors in this domain respectively.
I also provide consulting services, be it together with my partners of the Internet Governance Project or on my own.
