The RIPE Chair Team

Mirjam Kühne is serving as the Chair of the RIPE community since 2020. In this role, she facilitates the collaboration and coordination necessary to help enable the stable operation of the Internet.

Mirjam has been a member of the RIPE community for almost thirty years. She has a deep knowledge of the Internet community and collaborates regularly with stakeholders from various sectors including technical, security, academic and government.

Among other roles, Mirjam has worked as Senior Community Builder and as Director External Relations at the RIPE NCC. Mirjam also created and curated RIPE Labs, a collaborative platform that supports innovative ideas and tools for the community.

Prior to this role, Mirjam worked at the Internet Society as Senior Program Manager where she developed and organised technical workshops primarily in developing countries. During those years, Mirjam intensified her involvement with the IETF where she served as the Chair of the IETF Education Team for over ten years. She is currently chairing the IETF LLC Board of
Directors.

Mirjam obtained a Masters of Computer Science at the Technical University Berlin, Germany and lives in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Anna Wilson has worked for HEAnet since 1997, and has attended RIPE meetings since 1998. Her positions over that time include network engineer, project manager, people manager and now technical architect.

She has been a chair or co-chair of two RIPE working groups and represented the RIPE region on the ICANN ASO for six years. She’s also been heavily involved in the GÉANT community, and won the GÉANT Community Award in 2019.

Her main professional work these days is taking techniques and tools from the development community and bringing them back into networking. She’s interested in how different engineering fields manage safety and reliability, and in particular how community management is done in different ways across different sectors.