Cavalli, Olga del Carmen

Ms. Olga Cavalli is an ICT specialist with extensive experience in Internet and telecommunications regulations and technology. She developed her experience in multistakeholder environments, such as the public, private, academic and civil society sectors of Argentina, and other countries of the LAC region, America and Europe.

Ms. Cavalli is an electronic and electric engineer. She holds master's degrees in Business Administration and Telecom Regulations, and she is a Ph.D. candidate in Business Administration.

Ms. Cavalli is an advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Argentina. She is also the Vice Chair of the GNSO of ICANN, the Argentina Focal Point for the Information Society eLAC 2010 Action Plan, the coordinator of the eLAC2010 Internet Governance Working Group. Previously , she served as the Argentinian representative and negotiator during the World Summit of the Information Society held in Tunis in November 2005. She also served as the Argentinian representative in several international negotiations related with ICTs and the Internet.

Among her academic activities, Ms. Cavalli is the Regional Director of the South School on Internet Governance (www.south-ssig.com.ar), She is a Professor at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and the Instituto Tecnologico de Buenos Aires and Instituto del Servicio Exterior de la Nacion (Diplomatic Career), where she teaches subjects related to technology, the Internet and policy related with technology.