Panel #1 

Ndeye Maimouna Diop has been a Computer Engineer since 1995. She is employed by Senegal's National Telecommunication Operator, and is a Technical Advisor on ICT for the Senegal Government.
She also works as a member of Senegal's ccTLD Team, and is the Vice President of the Senegalese Internet Chapter.

Hans Klein is an Assistant Professor at the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta (USA). His research is in Internet development, the design of governance institutions, and democracy. He is Chair of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR), and co-founded the Civil Society Internet Forum (CSIF) and the Interim Coordinating Committee. He also served as a member of ICANN's Membership Implementation Task Force (MITF).

Alan Levin is Director of the Future Perfect Corporation. He has been working in the field of change management for over ten years, and is passionate about using information and communication technology in Africa to stimulate economic growth. He has a Bachelors degree in Computer Science and Industrial Psychology and an MBA. He sits on various boards and participates actively in organizations that contribute to this goal including the Cape IT Initiative, AfriDNS, AfrICANN and the At-Large ICC.

Donald Simon is a lawyer in Washington, D.C. where he specializes in election law. He serves as General Counsel to Common Cause, one of the leading public interest organizations in the U.S. that works for reforms to make government more open, honest and accountable. He received his B.A. from Harvard College in 1975 magna cum laude and his J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1978. He is a member of the NAIS (NGO and Academic ICANN Study) Project Steering Committee.

Alexander Svensson studies Political Science and Public Law at the University of Hamburg, Germany, with a focus on media and Net policy and on electronic democracy projects. He is the founder of the German news site ICANN Channel (icannchannel.de), with its smaller sister site ICANN Channel Europe
(icannchannel.org), and has contributed to the drafting of documents on the main European mailing list, icann-europe. He currently serves on the election watchdog and list monitor teams of the DNSO General Assembly.

Walter Wu (China, CNNIC);

(additional panelists TBA)

Panel #2

Christian Ahlert is a researcher and doctoral candidate at the Center for Interactive Media, University of Giessen, Germany. He has been a fellow at Harvard's Information Infrastructure Project, the project manager of the Bertelsmann Foundation's "Democratic-Internet" programme, a member of ICANNs Membership Implementation Task Force (MITF), and has published numerous articles about ICANN and the Internet. Currently he is one of the researchers of the www.naisproject.org, an independent international project to review the nature of public representation in ICANN.

Raul Echiberria (Uruguay, former At-large candidate)

Hans Petter Holen (Norway, ASO Address Council Member)

David Johnson (USA)

Wolfgang Kleinwaechter has been a professor for international communication policy at the Department of Media and Information Sciences at the University of Aarhus in Denmark since 1998. He has served as president of the Law Section of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), and currently serves on the IAMCR's International Council. He has written extensively on international communication policy and regulation, and Internet Governance. He is the initiator of the "ICANN-Studienkreis" and was a member of ICANNs Membership Information Task Force (MITF).

Toshimaru Ogura (Japan, JCA-NET);

(additional panelists TBA)