Moderator – Leslie Daigle
Ms Leslie Daigle
Chief Technical Officer and Internet Integrity Program Director
Global Cyber Alliance
Biography
Leslie Daigle has been working at the intersection of technology, business/economics, and policy to drive effective change for more than twenty years.
Always fascinated by the Internet’s technology, innovation and real-world impact, she started her professional career working with Internet applications technologies for corporate commercial activities, and expanded to take on leadership roles within the premier Internet technology standardisation organisation, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
As Chief Technical Officer at the Global Cyber Alliance, a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to reducing cyber risk, Leslie is responsible for the technology strategy that advances GCA’s development and deployment of global solutions.
Leslie was previously the Internet Society’s first Chief Internet Technology Officer. She joined the ISOC in 2007, and she helped to (re)create the global dialog on important technical issues, calling stakeholders to action by providing achievable targets and facilitating their own collaboration across (corporate) organisational boundaries.
Leslie holds an M.Sc. in Computing & Information Science from the University of Guelph, and a B.Sc. in Math and Computer Science from McGill University.