Anriette Esterhuysen was the executive director of the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) – the largest ICT-focused civil society network in the world – from 2000 to 2017. She continues to work with APC as Senior Advisor on internet governance and convenes the African School on Internet Governance (AfriSIG), a joint initiative of APC, the African Union Commission and Research ICT Africa. Anriette served as Chair of the Multistakeholder Advisory Committee of the United Nations Internet Governance Forum until December 2021 and served on the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace. She was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame as a Global Connecter in 2013 and received the Electronic Frontier Founcation’s Pioneer Award in 2015.