OECD, France
Sam Paltridge, Ph.D., is in the Directorate of Science Technology and Industry, for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). He joined the OECD as a communication analyst in the division of information computer and communications policy in 1993. His recent work in communication has been on broadband infrastructure as well as Internet issues such as international traffic exchange. He has been a principal author of the Communications Outlook series between the 1995 and 2005 editions; and, in 2005, was appointed principal administrator of ICT statistics in the OECD’s Economic Analysis and Statistics Division.
Between 1999 and 2005, Paltridge was the OECD’s representative on the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers’ (ICANN) Government Advisory Committee (GAC) and, as such, was one of the founding members of the GAC. Sam has also served in a number of advisory roles to governments, such as the Australian Government’s Broadband Advisory Group, and he is a former member of the organising committee for the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC) held each year in Washington. Sam’s work with the OECD involves working closely with other international organisations on ICT policy and, in 2005, he chaired the International Telecommunication Union’s World Meeting on Telecommunication/ICT Indicators. He is currently the OECD’s representative to the Internet Governance Forum.
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