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Jul 1994
Anthony Michael Rutkowski
Short Resume'
The Board of Trustees of the Internet Society on 7 Feb
named Anthony M. Rutkowski as the Executive Director of the
Society. The Internet Society is the global international
organization which fosters the development of the Internet
technologies, networks, applications and use. The Board
consists of 18 eminent individuals drawn from every region
of the world - most of whom were instrumental in creating
and evolving different components of the Internet and the
technology. The Society's membership - mirroring the
Internet - consists of thousands of individuals and scores
of companies, non-profit organizations, and government
agencies worldwide. It provides the global organizational
umbrella for standards, administrative, and coordination
activities necessary for the implementation and evolution
of internets. The Executive Director serves as full-time
executive officer and provides day-to-day organization
leadership.
From 1992-94, Tony Rutkowski was Director of Technology
Assessment in the Strategic Planning Group of Sprint
International. His principal responsibility was driving the
company in new and innovative directions through business
planning, development and incorporation of advanced techn-
ologies and applications generally, and internetworking
technologies specifically. He followed and coordinated a
broad array of technological, economic, business, trade,
and institutional activities in the information-telecom-
munication field, internal and external to Sprint.
He was one of the founding Board of Trustees of the
Internet Society and was the present Vice-President. He is
Editor-in-Chief of the Internet Society News magazine -
coordinating more than a hundred correspondents around the
world through the Internet. The Society is the world's
professional organization for advancing and standardizing
internet technologies and applications. He also remains a
Research Associate with the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.
From 1987 to 1992, he was the Counsellor to two different
Secretary-Generals of the International Telecommunication
Union (ITU) in Geneva - the world's intergovernmental
organization for telecommunications. He was responsible for
analysis of major developments in the field and formulation
of policies and international provisions, including the many
technical, legal, regulatory, organization management and
GATT trade issues that arose at the highest international
business and governmental levels. He came to the ITU in
1987 as head of its Telecommunication Regulations and
Relations Between Members Division - which supports the
coordination of laws, regulations, and operational
information among national administrations and public
telecom service providers.
An electrical engineer (B.S.E.E.) - lawyer (J.D.),
Rutkowski has for the past 30 years enjoyed a wide variety
of positions in private and public sectors in the
telecommunication and information industry - domestic and
international; in business, government, and education.
Previous significant positions include:
publisher and Editor-in-Chief of the industry's leading
trade magazine, Telecommunications (1986-87)
serving as staff advisor to the two Chief Scientists of
the FCC, analyzing and shaping a wide variety of key
domestic and international science and technology
policies and strategies in the telecommunications field
within the FCC and among other government agencies
(1979-1986)
teaching in New York Law School's graduate program in
telecommunications law (1980-83)
serving as staff technical advisor to the FCC Cable
Television Bureau and special international advisor in
the Office of Plans and Policy (1974-1980)
direct responsibility for design engineering and
management support of the Apollo project communication
systems and Shuttle control systems at the Kennedy
Space Center (1967-74)
election to local public office in Florida as a leading
community legislative reformer (1972-74)
In previous incarnations, he was a research microbiologist
and broadcast engineer.
He has been active in the IEEE, ABA, and numerous other
forums - including in several instances, their creation. He
has authored or contributed to several books, and written
more than 100 published articles and reports over the past
decade. He has testified as a Congressional expert witness,
and remains a visible and prolific analyst-writer -
appearing at many industry forums.
He is 51 years old, enjoys biking and mountaineering, is
married to sinologist-economist-analyst-writer Kathleen
McGlynn Rutkowski who now publishes the leading K-12
Internet newsletter, and with two little computer-weenies,
operates a home Internet and help reshape the world through
these technologies.
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