Donald J. MacLean
Biographical Note
Don MacLean is an independent consultant on ICT policy, strategy and governance issues based
in Ottawa, Canada and an Associate of the International Institute for Sustainable Development.
At the national level his work has included projects on access to broadband networks and
services, online delivery of government services, measures to counter spam, innovation
strategies for the e-economy, and reform of Canadian telecommunications policy and regulation.
At the international level, he has worked on projects to support the Global Knowledge
Partnership, the G8 Digital Opportunity Task Force, the World Summit on the Information Society,
and the 2008 OECD Ministerial Conference on the future of the Internet economy. He is currently
assisting IISD with an initiative to strengthen the linkages between global Internet governance
and sustainable development.
In addition to his consulting assignments, Don MacLean has contributed numerous articles to
academic and professional publications, edited Internet Governance: a Grand Collaboration for
the UN ICT Task Force, was a member of the WSIS Working Group on Internet Governance.
From 1992-99, he served as Chief of Strategic Planning and External Affairs at the International
Telecommunication Union. Prior to joining the ITU, he worked in the Canadian Department of
Communications from 1977 to 1989, before leaving government to establish his consulting
practice.