Esther Dyson
 Esther Dyson      ( businesswoman) | |
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| Born | 1951-07-14 Zürich, Switzerland |
| Nationality | US |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Parents | Freeman Dyson |
| Member of | Council on Foreign Relations/Members, Edge Foundation, Eurasia Foundation/Board and Trustees, National Endowment for Democracy/Board |
Billionaire investor | |
Esther Dyson is chairman of EDventure Holdings, a US-based company focused on information technology, health care, open government, digital technology, biotechnology, and outer space.[1]
Dyson is on the board of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and the Eurasia Foundation, two entities with ties to US intelligence services. Her board membership in the NED dovetails with her extensive business interests in Eastern Europe.
For several years in the '90s she was chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. From 1998 to 2000, she was founding chairman of ICANN (the organization responsible for overseeing the Domain Name System).[2]
She is also on the Advisory board of the elite networking group Renaissance Weekend and the board of the Markle Foundation.
Education and early life
Esther Dyson's father was English-born, American-naturalized physicist Freeman Dyson, and her mother was mathematician Verena Huber-Dyson, who was of Swiss parentage; one of her brothers is digital technology historian George Dyson.[3] She was educated at Harvard University where she studied economics.
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilderberg/2000 | 1 June 2000 | 4 June 2000 | Belgium Brussels Genval | The 48th Bilderberg, 94 guests |
| Bilderberg/2007 | 31 May 2007 | 3 June 2007 | Turkey Istanbul | The 55th Bilderberg meeting, held in Turkey |
| Edge Foundation/Billionaires' dinner/2007 | 6 March 2007 | 6 March 2007 | US California Monterey | "like some kind of virtual-intellectual conspiracy-in-restraint-of-trade." |
| Edge Foundation/Billionaires' dinner/2008 | 25 February 2008 | 25 February 2008 | US California Monterey | "The crowd was sprinkled generously with those who had amassed wealth beyond imagining in a historical eye blink." |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2013 | 23 January 2013 | 27 January 2013 | Switzerland WEF | 2500 mostly unelected leaders met to discuss "leading through adversity" |
References
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20160826092103/http://molesfarewelltributes.com/tribute/details/1427/Verena-Huber-Dyson/obituary.html
- ↑ http://www.release1-0.com/contributors/contributor.php?id=1
- ↑ Digerati: Encounters with the Cyber Elite Archived 10 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine. by John Brockman (HardWired Books, 1996)
