Prof. Nii Narku Quaynor: is a Jonathan B. Postel Service Award Winner 2007 from the IETF (The Internet Engineering Task Force) and a scientist and engineer who has played an important role in the introduction and development of the Internet throughout Africa. He is a Professor at the University of Cape Coast University, Ghana. He was the director of ICANN for the African Region in 2000.Quaynor graduated in engineering science from Dartmouth College in 1972 and received a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the Thayer School of Engineering there in 1973. He then studied Computer Science, obtaining an M.S. from the State University of New York at StonyBrook in 1974 and a Ph.D. from the same institution in 1977. He was founding chairman of AfriNIC, a member of the United Nations Secretary General Advisory Group on ICT, member of the ITU Telecom Board, Chair and of the OAU Internet Task Force, President of the Internet Society of Ghana, and member of the Worldbank Infodev TAP.
