Désirée Zeljka Miloshevic is an Internet public servant, and was a special advisor to the chair of the United Nations'

Internet Governance Forum The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) is a multistakeholder governance group for policy dialogue on issues of Internet governance. It brings together all stakeholders in the Internet governance debate, whether they represent governments, the privat ...

Multi-stakeholder Advisory Group. Additionally, she is Senior Public Policy and International Affairs Advisor in

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for

Afilias Afilias, Inc. is a US corporation that is the registry operator of the .info, .mobi and .pro top-level domain, service provider for registry operators of .org, .ngo, .lgbt, .asia, .aero, and a provider of domain name registry services for countri ...

, the

domain name registry A domain name registry is a database of all domain names and the associated registrant information in the top level domains of the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet that enables third party entities to request administrative control of a do ...

Early life

Miloshevic studied

English Literature English literature is literature written in the English language from United Kingdom, its crown dependencies, the Republic of Ireland, the United States, and the countries of the former British Empire. ''The Encyclopaedia Britannica'' defines E ...

at the

University of Belgrade The University of Belgrade ( sr, / ) is a public university in Serbia. It is the oldest and largest modern university in Serbia. Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it merged with the Kragujevac-b ...

Faculty of Philology before starting her internet career at the then newly formed British

service provider A service provider (SP) is an organization that provides services, such as consulting, legal, real estate, communications, storage, and processing services, to other organizations. Although a service provider can be a sub-unit of the organization t ...

Demon Internet Demon Internet was a British Internet service provider, initially an independent business, later operating as a brand of Vodafone. It was List of UK ISPs by age, one of the UK's earliest ISPs, offering dial-up Internet access services from 1 June ...

in 1993.

Other activities

Affiliations and positions

*Special Adviser to the Chair of

Advisory Group (2006–2009) *Member of the

Internet Society The Internet Society (ISOC) is an American nonprofit advocacy organization founded in 1992 with local chapters around the world. Its mission is "to promote the open development, evolution, and use of the Internet for the benefit of all people ...

Board of Trustees (2004–2010) (2013–2019) *Member of the CPSR Board (2004–2010) *Member of the ICANN ccNSO *Member of the IADAS Webby Awards *Member of the Irish ENUM Policy Advisory Board *Member of the

Open Rights Group The Open Rights Group (ORG) is a UK-based organisation that works to preserve digital rights and freedoms by campaigning on digital rights issues and by fostering a community of grassroots activists. It campaigns on numerous issues including ma ...

Advisory Council *Member of the CC UK Advisory Board *Chair of the SHARE Foundation Board of Directors (2018–present)

External links

ISOCCPSROxford Internet InstituteSHARE Foundation
Internet Society people Miloshevic Desiree University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology alumni Year of birth missing (living people) {{Internet-bio-stub