Jennifer Chung

Jennifer Chung is the Vice President, Policy for DotAsia Organisation. She represents .Asia Registry at Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and is a Generic Names Supporting Organisation (GNSO) councilor. She headed the IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG) Secretariat that oversaw the IANA stewardship transfer from the US government to the global multistakeholder community. Ms. Chung is appointed to the IGF Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) in its 20th anniversary year (2025, previously 2018-2020) progressing towards the WSIS+20 review and future of the IGF mandate, and the 2022 Expert Working Group that developed recommendations on strengthening the IGF. She heads the Internet Governance Forum Support Association (IGFSA) Secretariat which provides support to the IGF and grants seed funding to National, Regional and Youth Initiatives (NRIs). She has taught at the South School on Internet Governance and Asia Pacific School on Internet Governance, and is a current faculty member for the NetMission.asia Academy, and the Asia Pacific Internet Governance Academy (APIGA) since its inception, building up the next-generation leaders. She serves in the Asia Pacific Regional IGF Secretariat and works towards amplifying Asia Pacific contributions on Internet governance. Ms. Chung is on the Information Society Innovation Fund (ISIF.asia) Selection Committee that awards grants for research and technical solutions supporting Internet development in Asia Pacific. Representing DotAsia, she is part of the core Secretariat of the Technical Community Coalition on Multistakeholderism (TCCM), a group of critical Internet infrastructure operators dedicated to strengthening the multistakeholder approach to decisions about the Internet’s future and its governance. She works on Internationalized Domain Names policies and supports efforts to achieve Universal Acceptance, a foundational requirement for a multilingual Internet and digital inclusion.