Desiree Miloshevic Evans is an active connector, Internet public servant and a member of the global Internet governance community. She served as Special Adviser to the UN Under-Secretary and Chair of the Internet Governance Multistakeholder Advisory Group, as Trustee of the Board of Internet Society and on the Board of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.
She is currently co-chair of the RIPE Cooperation Working Group and Generic Name Supporting Organisation Councillor at Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
Desiree has a decade-plus of close and productive interactions with regulators, intergovernmental leaders, academics, artists, and community activists throughout the world. This provides her with a unique set of resources with which to engage the often complex, cross-sectoral challenges of Internet technical coordination and governance.
As an Oxford Internet Institute visiting associate, she researched Internet governance organisations. She serves on the UK IGF Program Committee, ISOC England UK and ISOC Belgrade Chapter boards and chairs the board of Share Foundation. When she is not advocating for the free, global and open Internet, Desiree is working on a DesCon.me conference – an annual IoT Ecology and Sustainability Hackathon for South East Europe which she founded in 2015.