Sandra Gijzen
RIPE NCC

Sandra Gijzen is the RIPE Network Co-ordination Centre's (RIPE NCC) External Relations Administrator and is responsible for maintaining and promoting support for the work of RIPE and the RIPE NCC. In particular, she maintains and expands outreach to governments and regulators and develops activities to support external relations strategies.

A long time employee of the RIPE NCC, Sandra has held several different positions in the organisation over the last ten years, including Training Administrator, Training Coordinator and Conference/Training coordinator. Sandra was responsible for the organisation and logistics of the RIPE NCC Training Courses, at least one of which is held every week throughout the 73 countries in the RIPE NCC's service region. She has also organised RIPE Meetings, RIPE NCC Regional Meetings and is responsible for the planning of workshops with the OECD and CEO lunches.

Sandra is part of the Middle East Network Operators Group (MENOG) Coordination Team and helped to establish the success of MENOG by coordinating the first ever meeting, MENOG 1, held in Bahrain in April 2007.