APIDT - Key Persons

Craig Ng

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Legal Counsel to the
Craig Ng is legal counsel to the Asia Pacific Internet Development Trust. He is a senior lawyer with over 30 years experience, having led well-regarded legal teams and practised in leading law firms in Australia and Malaysia. Mr Ng also served as legal counsel to APNIC, and prior to that, Mr Ng was a partner with Australian national law firm Maddocks Lawyers, a position he held for over 10 years. He acted for clients including auDA, the ccTLD manager for .au, and played a key role in the development of the framework for the self-regulation of the .au domain name space. He served on the board of trustee for the auDA Foundation for over 10 years since its inception, and was a director and honorary secretary of the Internet Society of Australia for a number of years. Mr Ng holds a Bachelor of Economics degree and a Bachelor of Laws degree from Monash University, Melbourne.

Dr. Hirochika Asai

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • VP of Infrastructure Strategy
Dr. Hirochika Asai is VP of Infrastructure Strategy and a senior researcher at Preferred Networks, Inc. (PFN), Japan. After receiving his Ph.D degree from Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo (U. TOKYO), he had worked as a project assistant professor at U. Tokyo for four years. In 2017, he joined PFN as a researcher to work on Internet architecture and operating system research. Dr. Asai has been involved in many academia and technical communities on the Internet. He has worked as a volunteer for the network operation center (NOC) of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) meetings to provide an open network for IETF participants since IETF 90 in 2014. Dr. Asai also served as board member to WIDE Project, a member of board of trustees of Japan Network Information center (JPNIC), a visiting researcher at RIKEN, and a senior researcher at Keio Research Institute at SFC.

Paul Wilson

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Expert and Leader
Paul Wilson has nearly 30 years' involvement with the Internet, including 26 years as the former head of APNIC, the Regional Internet Registry for the Asia Pacific. In this role, he has led APNIC's development as a provider of critical Internet services and as a key contributor to Internet growth and development throughout the Asia Pacific. Previously as Technical Director and CEO of Pegasus Networks, the first private ISP in Australia, Paul worked with early Internet technologies and helped establish the Association for Progressive Communications (APC). Paul has worked as an expert and leader across the full range of communities and organizations involved in Internet development, including ISPs and network operators, non-profit organizations, governments and governmental agencies; and with many key organizations including RIRs, the IETF, ICANN, ISOC, APEC-TEL, the ITU and others.