Raúl Echeberría

Biography

Raúl Echeberría is Executive Director of the Latin American Internet Association (ALAI), a post he has held since October 2020. In September 2025 he was named to the ICANN Board of Directors in the seat for Latin America and the Caribbean. A Uruguayan, he studied computer science at the University of the Republic of Uruguay.

He co-founded LACNIC, the internet address registry for Latin America and the Caribbean, and was its CEO from 2002 to 2014. He sat on the Internet Society Board of Trustees from 2008 to 2014, chairing it from 2009 to 2012, and was a global vice president of the Internet Society from 2014 to 2019. He was a member of the UN Working Group on Internet Governance, part of Uruguay’s delegation to the 2005 World Summit on the Information Society, a member of the Internet Governance Forum’s Multistakeholder Advisory Group from 2006 to 2014 and co-chair of the NetMundial Executive Committee in 2014.