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                                                   Jul 1994

                  Anthony Michael Rutkowski
                        Short Resume'

  The  Board  of  Trustees of the Internet Society on 7 Feb
named Anthony M. Rutkowski as the Executive Director of the
Society.  The Internet Society  is the global international
organization which fosters  the development of the Internet
technologies,  networks,  applications  and use.  The Board
consists of 18 eminent individuals  drawn from every region
of the world - most of whom  were  instrumental in creating
and evolving  different components  of the Internet and the
technology.    The Society's  membership  -  mirroring  the
Internet  - consists of thousands of individuals and scores
of  companies,  non-profit  organizations,  and  government
agencies worldwide.   It provides the global organizational
umbrella  for  standards,  administrative, and coordination
activities  necessary for  the implementation and evolution
of internets.   The  Executive Director serves as full-time
executive  officer  and  provides  day-to-day  organization
leadership.

From 1992-94, Tony    Rutkowski was Director  of  Technology
Assessment  in  the  Strategic  Planning  Group  of   Sprint
International.  His principal responsibility was driving the
company in new  and  innovative directions through  business
planning, development and  incorporation  of advanced techn-
ologies   and  applications generally,  and  internetworking
technologies  specifically.  He followed and  coordinated  a
broad   array   of technological, economic, business, trade,
and  institutional activities   in  the  information-telecom-
munication   field, internal and external to Sprint.

 He  was  one  of  the  founding Board of  Trustees  of  the
Internet Society and was the present Vice-President.  He  is
Editor-in-Chief  of  the Internet Society  News  magazine  -
coordinating more than a hundred correspondents  around  the
world  through  the Internet.  The Society  is  the  world's
professional  organization for advancing  and  standardizing
internet  technologies and applications.  He also remains  a
Research  Associate  with  the  Massachusetts  Institute  of
Technology.

 From  1987  to 1992, he was the Counsellor to two different
Secretary-Generals  of  the International  Telecommunication
Union  (ITU)  in  Geneva  -  the  world's  intergovernmental
organization for telecommunications.  He was responsible for
analysis  of major developments in the field and formulation
of policies and international provisions, including the many
technical,  legal, regulatory, organization  management  and
GATT  trade  issues that arose at the highest  international
business  and governmental levels.  He came to  the  ITU  in
1987  as  head  of  its  Telecommunication  Regulations  and
Relations  Between  Members Division -  which  supports  the
coordination   of   laws,   regulations,   and   operational
information  among  national  administrations   and   public
telecom service providers.

 An   electrical   engineer  (B.S.E.E.)  -  lawyer   (J.D.),
Rutkowski  has for the past 30 years enjoyed a wide  variety
of   positions  in  private  and  public  sectors   in   the
telecommunication and information industry  -  domestic  and
international;  in  business,  government,  and   education.
Previous significant positions include:

 publisher and Editor-in-Chief of the industry's leading
 trade magazine, Telecommunications (1986-87)

 serving as staff advisor to the two Chief Scientists of
 the  FCC, analyzing and shaping a wide variety  of  key
 domestic   and  international  science  and  technology
 policies and strategies in the telecommunications field
 within  the  FCC  and  among other government  agencies
 (1979-1986)

 teaching  in New York Law School's graduate program  in
 telecommunications law (1980-83)

 serving  as  staff technical advisor to the  FCC  Cable
 Television Bureau and special international advisor  in
 the Office of Plans and Policy (1974-1980)

 direct   responsibility  for  design  engineering   and
 management  support of the Apollo project communication
 systems  and  Shuttle control systems  at  the  Kennedy
 Space Center (1967-74)

 election to local public office in Florida as a leading
 community legislative reformer (1972-74)

 In  previous incarnations, he was a research microbiologist
and broadcast engineer.

 He  has  been  active in the IEEE, ABA, and numerous  other
forums - including in several instances, their creation.  He
has  authored or contributed to several books,  and  written
more  than 100 published articles and reports over the  past
decade.  He has testified as a Congressional expert witness,
and   remains  a  visible  and  prolific  analyst-writer   -
appearing at many industry forums.

 He  is  51 years old, enjoys biking and mountaineering,  is
married   to  sinologist-economist-analyst-writer   Kathleen
McGlynn  Rutkowski  who  now  publishes  the  leading   K-12
Internet newsletter,  and  with two little  computer-weenies,
operates a home Internet and help reshape the world  through
these technologies.

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