Selection Committee

Jaya Baloo, currently Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Avast Software has worked in the cybersecurity area for nearly 20 years is also one of the top 100 Chief Information Security Officers (CISO) in the world. She was the CISO of KPN for seven years before joining Avast. She is a faculty member of Singularity University and a member of various infosec boards. Jaya is also the quantum ambassador of KPN Telecom and a Vice Chair of the Quantum Flagship Strategic Advisory Board of the EU Commission.

Fiona Krakenbürger has a background in Open Source funding and has worked in Berlin and Washington D.C. as a Senior Program Manager. She is one of the initiators of the Sovereign Tech Fund, a fund dedicated to Open Source Infrastructure based in Germany. Previously she has worked at the US-based Open Technology Fund, supporting Internet Freedom projects worldwide, at the Prototype Fund in Germany she supported Civic Tech projects. Fiona has been an activist for digital literacy and diversity in tech for more than ten years.

Flavio Luciani was born in Rome in 1981 and earned a Master's in Computer Engineering from the Roma 3 University in 2006. He has been working with Namex since 2008 and since then he has supervised the technical and infrastructural development of the exchange point, first as a member of the technical staff and then, starting from March 2020, serving as Chief Technology Officer. He was one of the Internet Society MANRS Ambassadors in 2020 and is currently member of EURO-IX FPC.

Job Snijders is a principal engineer at Fastly where he analyses and architects global networks for future growth. Prior to this role, Job led routing security initiatives at NTT Ltd's Global IP Network.

Job has been actively involved in the Internet community in both an operational and engineering capacity, and is a frequent presenter at network operator meetings such as RIPE, ITNOG, DKNOG, NANOG, APRICOT and NLNOG. Job co-chairs the IETF GROW and RIPE Routing working group, is director of the Route Server Support Foundation, and vice-president of PeeringDB. Job also is an OpenBSD developer.

Website: sobornost.net/~job/
Twitter: @JobSnijders

Samaneh Tajalizadehkhoob holds a PhD in intersection between web security, policy and mathematical analysis from Delft University of Technology. She has more than 10 years of experience working in the interdisciplinary area of cybersecurity and the human factor. Currently, Samaneh is a Director of Security, Stability & Resilience Research at ICANN’s Office of CTO where she leads research related to DNS security and policy and translates operational security problems from the ICANN community to potential ares of research.

She has collaborated with various academic institutions and security industry partners in areas related to vulnerability measurement, patch management, statistical modeling of security incidents, incident predictions as well as economics of online banking fraud. Additionally, Samaneh sits on the program committee of multiple academic and industry conferences.

As a part of her career goal, she mentors and supports women worldwide who would like to pursue a career in cybersecurity and she is one of the mentors in the ITU’s Women in Cyber Mentorship Program. Samaneh has been active in the RIPE and IETF community and she regularly participates in discussions related to DNS security.