Esther Dyson

Esther Dyson has been widely regarded as one of the most influential voices in technology policy for more than three decades. Though she is now mostly focused on human well-being and health (through the 10-year nonprofit community health and equity project she founded in 2014, Wellville), she is returning her gaze to Internet governance as the world approaches Web 3.0. She hopes to help it avoid the governance issues she saw clearly in Web 2.0, specifically through her role as founding chairman of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), 1998-2000. She also serves as an active angel investor in a variety of mostly tech- or health-oriented startups.