(07/2024)
Patrik Fältström is since 2011 CSO at Netnod. He has been working with Internet and internet related activities since mid 1980, and is among other things co-editor of the standards for internationalized domain names (IDN) and ENUM. Fältström has been working with human rights issues and international telecommunication policy in the United Nations. Since the beginning his goal has been robust and available services which have been demonstrated by his involvement in cybersecurity events since 1994. Previously, Fältström was a Distinguished Consulting Engineer at Cisco and has also worked at Tele2, Bunyip Information Systems in Montréal, at the Royal Institute of Technology, and the Swedish Navy.
He has been a member of ICANN SSAC since 2007, and was its chair between 2011 and 2017.
Mr Fältström also works part time for the Swedish Armed Forces with cyber defense and has a major's degree. One of the activities include being active in the cyber exercise Locked Shields where he has been team lead since 2022, and since 2023 together with Iceland. In 2023 they did win.
He has a Degree of Master of Science in Mathematics at Stockholm University, is Knight of The Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana and member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.
Disclosure of Interest:
- Please identify your current employer(s) and position(s): CSO, Netnod IT Advisor, Swedish Armed Forces
- Please identify the type(s) of work performed at #1 above: At Netnod CSO managing all security related issues. Closely in cooperation with CIO. At Swedish Armed Forces advisor to the CIO.
- Please identify any board or committee positions that you hold that might be perceived as influencing your expressed point of view, irrespective of whether they are voluntary. Board member of TU Foundation, Board member of Internetstiftelsen
- Please list any financial or other material relationship beyond de minimus stock ownership that you or your employer has with any individual, company, or other entity that to your knowledge has a financial or other material relationship with ICANN: None
- Please list any business transactions that you, your employer, or an immediate family member/significant other has had with ICANN within the last 5 years. None
- Is your participation as an SSAC member the subject of any arrangements or agreements between you and any other group, constituency, or person(s)? No
- If the answer to #7 is “yes,” please describe the arrangements or agreements and the name of the group, constituency, or person(s).