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Patrik Fältström
Patrik Fältström is currently a Senior Consulting Engineer with Cisco Systems in the team Strategic Alliances. At Cisco, Mr. Fältström is involved with many things touching the domain name system.
Previously, Fältström was a technical specialist in the Internet Strategies and Coordination group at Tele2, systems manager at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, researcher at Bunyip Information Systems in Montreal and a programmer in the Swedish Royal Navy.
He has been working with UNIX since 1985, and been involved in Internet-related standardization since 1989, both in Sweden and worldwide.
Fältström is active in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), was one of two area directors of the applications area for five years, followed by being a member of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) and advisor to the Swedish Government as a member of the IT Policy and Strategy Group 2003-2006.
He is a member of ISOC Board of Trustees and the Internet Governance Forum Advisory Group, and was reappointed an advisor to the Swedish Government July 2007. He is or has been a memer of numerous other advisory groups and investigations related to Internet during the years, both public and private sector including ICANN, Packet Clearing House, Telio, HotSIP, Swedish Government and the European Comission. Fältström holds an M.Sc. degree in mathematics from the University of Stockholm.
