Jennifer Chung is the Director of Corporate Knowledge for DotAsia Organisation. She was an appointed member on the United Nations Internet Governance Forum Multistakeholder Advisory Group from 2018-2020 which advises the UN Secretary General on the annual global UN IGF agenda. Ms. Chung heads the Secretariat for IGFSA which provides support to the global UN IGF, IGF Secretariat, and grants seed funding to National, Regional and Youth Initiatives. She is a part of the Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum organizing team and works closely with APAC regional partners and communities towards strengthening and amplifying Asia Pacific views and contributions on Internet governance. She is committed to youth capacity building in Internet governance and has designed, supported, and have been invited as guest lecturer at various regional Schools of Internet Governance including APSIG, APIGA, and SSIG (GRULAC).
Ms. Chung represents .Asia Registry in the multistakeholder bottom-up policy development processes in the Registry Stakeholder Group at ICANN. She previously headed the ICG Secretariat that oversaw the transfer of the IANA stewardship from the US government (NTIA) to the global multistakeholder community.
An avid supporter of innovative technology, Ms. Chung is a member of the ISIF.asia Selection Committee that awards grants for research and implementation of technical solutions that support Internet development in Asia Pacific. She works on Internationalized Domain Names policies, previously as part of the CJK coordination for Label Generation Rules for the Han script, and currently on the ICANN IDN Expedited Policy Development Process (IDN EPDP) which will make policy recommendations on the definition and management of IDN variant Top Level Domains. She supports efforts to achieve Universal Acceptance of domain names, a foundational requirement for a truly multilingual Internet, one in which users around the world can navigate entirely in local languages.