Dr. Govind

Advisor

Dr. Govind is working as an expert in the Internet Governance space and has served, as  the CEO of National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI), a section 25 company  set up under Indian companies act as a public-private partnership towards the promotion of Internet in the country. Formerly, he was  Senior Director, heading the E-Infrastructure & Internet Governance areas in Department of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India.Dr. Govind has held key posts in the Department of IT, where he has more than 26 years of experience in various sectors of Information Technology, including Internet  Governance, Broadband Internet, E-infrastructure, Inter-Ministerial Group coordination for Policy Development and crystallising the India-stance in global internet strategy. Dr Govind played a key role in successfully establishing Internet Exchange Points in India. He also establishment .IN Registry and National Internet Registry for the allocation of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses in the country. He is involved in broadband proliferation, Internet technologies , promotion of domain names in local languages and Multi-stakeholder Advocacy in the Internet Governance field . Dr Govind has done his doctoral thesis  in Plasma Physics and Electromagnetic Wave Propagation from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, India and  has to his credit several  technical research publications and reports in international and national journals.