Mirjam Kühne has been serving as the Chair of the RIPE community since 2020.Mirjam has been a member of the RIPE community for almost thirty years. She has a deep knowledge of the Internet community and collaborates regularly with stakeholders from various sectors including technical, security, academic and government.
Among other roles, Mirjam has worked as Senior Community Builder and as Director External Relations at the RIPE NCC. Earlier, Mirjam worked at the Internet Society as Senior Program Manager where one of her tasks was the organisation and coordination of technical workshops all over the world.
Mirjam also served as chair of the IETF Education Team for over ten years and is currently a member of the IETF LLC Board of Directors.
Mirjam obtained a Masters of Computer Science at the Technical University Berlin, Germany and lives now in Amsterdam with her husband.