Board of Directors


Eric Yen
Director,TW
Eric Yen is a research scientist at Academia Sinica Grid Computing Centre (ASGC) in Taiwan. Eric Yen has been actively involved in APAN activities for more than 15 years ranging from Application area, Technology area and APAN meeting organization in addition to regional network collaborations.
He initiated the Disaster Mitigation Working Group together with Dr. Denis F. Villorente of ASTI Philippines from the BOF stage at APAN41 in 2016.
Mr. Yen is also the co-chairman of APAN Cloud Working Group aiming to promote regional collaborations through Cloud Working Group Meetings at every APAN meeting since APAN38.
Eric Yen has been acting as the chairperson of APGridPMA (Policy Management Authority) from 2008 which is building interoperable global trust federation (IGTF) supporting distributed research infrastructure together with PMAs in Europe (EUGridPMA) and America (TAGPMA).
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Bo Wang
Director,CN
Affiliation: CERNET Center, Tsinghua University
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Bo Wang is currently an assistant professor at Tsinghua University. She also works for CERNET. Before that, she was a postdoc researcher working with Prof. Jianping Wu during 2019-2021. She received her Ph.D. in computer science and technology from Tsinghua University in 2019. She was awarded N2Women Rising Stars in 2022.

Sanjeev Banzal
Director,IN
Mr Sanjeev Banzal is the Director General of Education and Research Network (ERNET), India. Mr Banzal has over 31 years of professional experience in diverse Information and communication Technologies fields. He has been in leadership positions in polices and regulations formulations, Technology Development, Project Management, Marketing, Material Management, Training and Capacity Building, Procurement and Contract Management and consumer affairs.
Before joining ERNET, he worked as Advisor with the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). He has extensively worked in formation of polices and regulations for Indian Telecom Sector in the areas of Cellular Mobile Licensing, Spectrum Management, Emergency Telecommunication, Mobile Number Portability, VSAT, M2M/IoT, ICT for Smart cities, ICT needs for Persons with Disabilities (PwD) etc. and handled Consumer Affairs for telecom and broadcasting sector.
At International level he headed study group-2 at International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Geneva as Rapporteur on the issues of ‘Utilization of ICT for Disaster Risk Reduction and the management’ for the period 2018-21. He was also vice-rapporteur of the study of ‘Smart Cities and Society’ for the period 2018-21. He was the Chairman of working group on Spectrum for the South Asian Telecom Regulators Council (SATRC) under Asia-Pacific Telecommunity (APT) Bangkok for the period 2012-14.
Mr Sanjeev Banzal has been a speaker at several international seminars/workshops/trainings conducted by ITU/APT/SATRC and other international organizations. He has written several articles in Telecom Journals and newspapers.
Mr Sanjeev Banzal has done his Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Electronics from National Institute of Technology, Surat, Master of Engineering (ME) in Electronics and Telecommunications from Delhi College of Engineering, Delhi and Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from Management Development Institutes (MDI), Gurgaon, India.

Roshan Ragel
Director,LK
Dr Ragel was appointed a Senior Lecturer in Computer Engineering at the University of Peradeniya in December 2007 and has been a Professor since October 2017. He has been a Professional Member of the IEEE and IEEE Computer Society since 2005 and a Senior Member since 2014. He is also a Professional Member of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM).
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