Lucy Lynch

Assistant Director for International Partnerships (retired)

Lucy Lynch was Director of Trust and Identity Initiatives for the Internet Society (2006-2014), Her assignment with ISOC was to examine some of the major issues affecting trust in the Internet and to develop projects and partnerships to help address those problems. Topics of particular interest included: federated identity, end user privacy and security, and technical mechanisms for enabling network trust.

Prior to joining the Internet Society, she worked at the University of Oregon as a member of the Academic Computing and Network Applications Group. Her assignments with the University included work with the Network Startup Resource Center (including acting as project Co-PI), the Oregon RouteViews Project, and the UO Multicast Team. In addition, she has been an active participant in both the North American Network Operators Group (NANOG) and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), she is currently serving as a member of the IAB privacy and Security Program, and has served as Chair of the IETF Administrative Oversight Committee (IAOC) from 2003 to 2006.