Verena Weber is Head of the Connectivity Services and Infrastructures Unit at the OECD's Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation where she leads OECD’s teams on connectivity services and infrastructures as well as semiconductor policy. She has over 15 years of experience working on topics relating to digital policy and regulation. Her current projects focus, for example, on trends in broadband infrastructure and markets, connectivity policies, the security of communication networks, convergence, network neutrality, the role of cloud computing, semiconductor policy and national telecommunication reviews. Recent projects include the 2023 Review on Extending Broadband Connectivity in Southeast Asia, the creation of a Semiconductor Informal Exchange Network at the OECD, the 2021 OECD Recommendation on Broadband Connectivity, as well as OECD Telecommunication and Broadcasting Reviews of Brazil and Mexico. Between 2014 and 2015 she worked as an Internet Governance Advisor to the ICT Minister Diego Molano and the head of the Comisión de Regulación de Comunicaciones (CRC) in Colombia where she developed an Internet governance strategy. She also served as a country representative on the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers’ (ICANN) Government Advisory Committee (GAC) and is a past representative of the OECD to the Internet Governance Forum. Dr. Weber holds a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Mannheim, an MBA from ESSEC Business School Paris-Singapore, and a doctorate (Dr. rer. Pol.) of WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management.