José Luiz Ribeiro Filho (Diretor de Serviços e Soluções da Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa - RNP)

Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the London University, a M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from COPPE/UFRJ and is graduated in Eletronic Engineering at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. He started his career as researcher at Núcleo de Computação Eletrônica (UFRJ) in the 80’s, having taken part and leadership in several computer architecture and computer networks projects. Between 1996 and 2000 was responsible for the consolidation of the Brazilian National Research and Education Network (RNP). In the next four years José Luiz had activities in the private sector at Telemar (former CTO of Tnext, the group’s data center and IT services company) and HP Brazil. Back at RNP in 2005, José Luiz was responsible for starting several national projects such as Redecomep and Rute, and lead the creation of the services and solutions area at RNP. He is currently the director of this area. He was counselor of the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br) in 1998-2000 and between 2011-2014, representing the academic community. He has also represented the country and RNP in various international forums like Internet Society (ISOC), Internet 2 , ICANN, LACNIC, etc.