Paul Twomey Biography

Dr Paul Twomey is the Co-Chair of the Global Initiative for Digital Governance.   He is a founding figure and former CEO (and Senior President) of ICANN, from March 2003 to January 2010 .  Paul was the founding Chair of ICANN’s Governmental Advisory Committee for its first four years. Paul was CEO of the Australian Government's National Office for the Information Economy and Deputy at the Australian Trade Commission. Formerly with McKinsey& Company, he was a special advisor to several Australian Ministers in the Keating and Howard Governments. 

Paul  is a member of the SAP Artificial Intelligence Ethics Advisory Panel.  Over the last several years he has been Co-chair of the digitisation working groups of the Think20 – the research and policy advice network of the G20.  He is a Commissioner on the  Global Information Infrastructure Commission, and a Commissioner on the Global Commission for Internet Governance (GCIG), chaired by former Swedish Prime Minster, Carl Bildt. In Washington, he served on the Board of  The Atlantic Council of the United States from 2007-2018.

Paul received his PhD from the University of Cambridge.