Dominique Lazanski is a London-based digital policy and strategy consultant and is the director of Last Press Label. She is currently a consultant for the UK Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and for mobile-related companies. She was formerly the director for public policy and institutional relations for the GSM Association and has worked on cybersecurity policy and internet governance coordination with organizations including the United Nations (UN), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, and the World Trade Organization. She was on the executive multistakeholder committee for NetMundial in April 2014 and just finished her three-year appointment to the multistakeholder advisory group of the Internet Governance Forum.

Lazanski was a member of the UK Open Data User Group in the Cabinet Office from 2012 to 2014 and the Tax Transparency Board in Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs in 2013. She participates on the Multistakeholder Advisory Group on Internet Governance in the United Kingdom. She worked on the first Cyberspace Conference with the UK Foreign Office and the ICC in London. In 2015 she was a UN expert on access and connectivity. Lazanski began her career with positions at Yahoo, eBay, and Apple, where she helped launch the first iTunes stores in the United States. In 2005 she moved to London to complete a master’s degree in information systems management at the London School of Economics. Lazanski also holds a BA from Cornell University and a second master’s degree from the University of Bath, and is currently working on her PhD.

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