Kuo-Wei Wu

Kuo-Wei Wu

Mr. Kuo-Wei Wu has a technical, management and policy experience in Internet. He is the CEO of NII Enterprise Promotion Association (Taipei, 2004 – now), which is a non-profit organization working on the research and consultant services in Internet policy and Information security.

He is one of the pioneers of HPC Asia, TANET, TWNIC, APTLD, and CDNC. In term of board membership, he is currently a board member or executive council of APIA (2008 – now), TWIA (2008 – now) and COSA (1995-now). He was a board member or executive council of PIR (2008 – 2010), APNIC (1999-2010) and TWNIC (1999-2007). He has experience in supervision, financial, and governance.

In regard to Internet-related management, Mr. Wu was the deputy director of NCHC (1990—1998), where he was responsible for TANET backbone operation to serve all the universities, research institutions in Taiwan. He is the co-founder of Asia Pacific Supercomputer Center Consortium (HPC Asia) to lead the experience sharing over all the Asia Pacific Supercomputer Centers.

He started Internet-related works since he worked for Cray Research, Inc. (1984-1990), and a vice-president of Yam Digital, Inc. When he was a vice-president of Acer, he led the Internet service business for Acer (2000-2004). He actively involved in ICANN activities (GAC, ALS, ccNSO, ASO) since 1999 until now. He also actively participated UN/WSIS (2004-2005), and UN/IGF (2006-2015).

Mr. Wu holds a mathematics BSc degree from Tunghai University, a MSc degree in Mathematics from University of Cincinnati, and MSc degree in Computer Science from Columbia University.