Full Name
Bevil Wooding
Job Title
Director, Caribbean Affairs
Company
ARIN
Speaker Bio
Bevil is the Director of Caribbean Affairs with ARIN. He works closely with ARIN’s community in the Caribbean and is responsible for strengthening and managing ARIN’s relationship with the region’s technical community, regulators and governments. He also raises awareness of ARIN’s mission and objectives and supports delivery of ARIN services to its members in the Caribbean. He serves in an advisory capacity to several Caribbean governments and regional institutions, including the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU) and Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on technology, education, cybersecurity and the digital economy.

Bevil is the executive chair of the Caribbean Network Operators Group (CaribNOG) and co-chair of the Caribbean Peering and Interconnection Forum (CarPIF), both volunteer communities dedicated to computer network security and management best practices. He is also the co-architect of the Caribbean Telecommunication Union’s pioneering Caribbean ICT Roadshow and served as Programme Coordinator for the initiative from its inception in 2009.

In 2010, Bevil was designated by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) as a Trusted Community Representative and designated as one of seven Recovery Key Share Holders. In 2013, LACNIC conferred him its 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his role in establishing Internet exchange points and for his contribution to education and capacity building in Internet adoption in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Bevil Wooding