Adam is responsible for ICANN’s relations with civil society organizations, including academia, supporting non-commercial participation in ICANN’s multi-stakeholder model. Before joining ICANN in December 2014, Adam spent more than two decades as a senior researcher at the Center for Global Communications (GLOCOM), International University of Japan, where he worked on projects related to telecommunications and Internet policy. Adam has been active in policy-making activities for the deployment and development of the Internet since the early-1990s. He was one of the lead civil society representatives during WSIS, IGF and NETmundial, and a founding member of the IGF Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG).