Daniel Karrenberg

Daniel Karrenberg (born 1959, in Düsseldorf[1]) is a German computer scientist[citation needed] and one of Europe's[2] Internet pioneer who lives in the Netherlands.

[3] From 1987 to 1992, Karrenberg worked at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam,[4] where he helped to build the central European structured cabling with links to the American NSFNET.

In 1992, he was instrumental in founding the world's first Regional Internet Registry, the RIPE NCC, responsible for Europe, the Middle East and parts of Africa and Central Asia, which he headed until 1999.

[3][6] From 2005 to 2011, Karrenberg was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society, of which he chaired for three years.

[4] In 2001, Karrenberg received the Jonathan B. Postel Service Award[3] for Two Decades Of Extraordinary Dedication To The Development Of Networking In Europe And Around The World.