Stephen Wolff is Executive Director of the Advanced Internet Initiatives Division of Cisco Systems, Inc., responsible for seeking out, initiating, and leading Cisco participation in partnerships at the forefront of Internet development and deployment worldwide.

Prior to joining Cisco in 1995, he was Director of the Division of Networking and Communications Research and Infrastructure in the National Science Foundation (NSF),where he was responsible for the National Research and Education Network (NREN) and NSFNET programs, and for NSF's support of basic research in networking and communications.

Mr. Wolff was educated at Swarthmore College, Princeton University, and Imperial College; he taught electrical engineering in The Johns Hopkins University for ten years, and subsequently spent fifteen years supervising computer- and network-related R&D at the US Army Research Laboratory before moving to the NSF in 1986. He is a Member of the ACM and a Life Member of the IEEE.