Pearse O’Donohue
Pearse O’Donohue is the Director for Future Networks policy and research within the European Commission. As well as communications networks and computing technologies, his brief covers next generation Internet technologies and standards and Internet governance. In this capacity, for the last seven years Pearse has represented the European Commission in the IGF and at ICANN, at many gatherings of the multistakeholder community and contributing to the implementation of the Tunis Agenda from the EU perspective. Most recently, he represented the European Commission at NetMundial. Pearse is Chair of the EU High-Level Internet Governance Group. He previously served as Deputy Head of Cabinet of the then Vice-President of the Commission, Neelie Kroes, during which time he steered the first European Commission policy Communication on Internet Governance.