Mervi Kultamaa is WSIS Coordinator in the Division on Technology and Logistics of United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. She has extensive experience in global diplomacy on WSIS and internet governance.  Before joining the UNCTAD secretariat in February 2014, she worked as Counsellor in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, responsible for Information Society.  She served then also as a member of the IGF Multistakeholder Advisory Group. From 2005 to 2010 she worked as First Secretary in the Permanent Mission of Finland in Geneva, covering science and technology, including the second phase of the WSIS in Tunis.