Adam is responsible for ICANN's relations with civil society organizations, supporting non-commercial participation in ICANN's multistakeholder model. He is also responsible for ICANN's engagement with stakeholders in the Benelux countries, U.K. and Ireland. Before joining ICANN in December 2014, Adam spent more than two decades as a senior researcher at the Center for Global Communications (GLOCOM), International University of Japan, where he worked on projects related to telecommunications and Internet policy. Adam has been active in policy-making activities for the deployment and development of the Internet since the early-1990s. He was one of the lead civil society representatives during WSIS, the early years of the IGF and NETmundial.