Harald Alvestrand
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Harald Alvestrand was born in Norway in 1959, and graduated from the
Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH) in 1984.
He has worked for Norsk Data, UNINETT (the university network of Norway),
EDB Maxware, Cisco Systems and, since 2006, for Google.

He has been active in Internet standardization via the Internet
Engineering Task Force (IETF) since 1991, and has written a number of
RFCs, including RFC 1766, the first standard for language tags in
Internet protocols.

In the IETF, he has been an area director of the Applications area
(1995-1998) and of the Operations & Management area (1998-1999; a
member of the Internet Architecture Board (1999-2001), and served as
chair of the IETF from 2001 to 2006.

He was alternate chair of the ICANN DNSO General Assembly from December
1999 to April 2001, and was a member of the WIPO panel of experts on
the DNS in 1998-1999.

He is currently a board member of NORID (the .no domain name registry),
ICANN and the Unicode Consortium.

He lives in Trondheim, Norway, is married, and has 3 children.