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  • Ms Sandra Hoferichter
    Secretary General
    EuroDIG

ABOUT

Sandra Hoferichter, is the Secretary General of the European Dialogue on Internet Governance (EuroDIG), the European IGF.
As a project manager of Medienstadt Leipzig e.V., a German not for profit organization, she became involved in the Internet governance process in 2006 by coordinating inter alia the European Summer School on Internet Governance (EuroSSIG), ICANN Studienkreis or Experts meetings on the Internet of Things. In 2010 Sandra was elected as one European representative to ICANN’s At Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) and served on the ALAC until November 2016. Since November 2016 she is representing the ALAC at ICANN’s Nomination Committee (NomCom).
Sandra's contributions, both to the ICANN Community and the efforts within the IGF fora, are dedicated to facilitate the collaboration ground for different stakeholder groups and to develop participation processes that are open and transparent.
In 2017 she was appointed to Strategic Committee of EURid, the registry for the .eu domain.
Sandra holds a degree in Architecture from the Leipzig University of Applied Sciences (HTWK) and worked as an single entrepreneur architect from 1997 – 2011.