Arthur K. Reilly

Biography

Engineering

B.S., Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1968
M.S., Cornell University, 1969

Arthur K. Reilly is retired from Cisco Systems where he was Senior Director in Strategic Technology Policy.  He has been a leader in improving interoperability and quality in networks through telecommunications standards for more than 20 years.  He was Cisco's principal representative to the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and many other UN activities on policy matters and provided leadership in Cisco's global technology policy and standards management activities.

The Internet Society Board of Trustees appointed him to serve as a Director on the Board of the Public Interest Registry (PIR).  His term began on July 1, 2011.  The PIR Board oversees management of the .org Internet domains.  Approximately 9 million .org domains are used primarily by charities, churches, civil society groups, and industry and other private sector associations.  He is the only American on this five-member board.

Reilly successfully led national, regional, and global efforts to promote open, voluntary, private-sector-led, market-driven standardization and to harmonize standards development.  From 1984 to 1996, he held various leadership positions, including Chairman in the ANSI-accredited telecommunications networks standards committee sponsored by the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS).  He was an architect of the Global Standards Collaboration (GSC) process that began in 1990, which annually brings together leaders in telecom standards from North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.  He was selected to Chair the July 2008 GSC hosted by ATIS in Boston.  On behalf of the Information Technology Industry (ITI) Council and the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), Reilly represented the U.S. IT and telecommunications industry in annual U.S.-China workshops on technology standards.

As the business Vice Chair of the UN ICT Task Force, he provided leadership in promoting the achievement of the UN Millennium Declaration Goals (improving the quality of life for people around the world) through the use of information technology.  Reilly was a private sector leader in preparations for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).

Reilly chaired the US Council for International Business's (USCIB) ICT Policy Committee.  The USCIB is the U.S. affiliate of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC).   He was also a leader in the ICC and its Business Action to Support the Information Society (BASIS) representing these groups in such venues as the UN Commission on Science, Technology and Development, and the UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF). Reilly was also a member of the Strategy Council for the UN Global Alliance for ICT and Development.  He was a frequent speaker and moderator at forums convened by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). He was also a member of the Board of the US ITU Association.

Beginning in 1992, he served each of the Network Reliability and Interoperability Councils (NRIC) in advising the Federal Communications Commission in these areas as well as on topics such as interconnection, Y2K, and homeland security.  Reilly is a past member of the Standards Board for the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the IEEE's Charles Steinmetz Awards Committee.

His awards include the 2000 American National Standards Institute's Richard Finegan medal for extraordinary leadership in the development and application of voluntary standards.  In 2004, the IEEE presented him the Communications Quality and Reliability President's Award.  In 2006, he was the inaugural recipient of the ATIS President's Award.

Reilly was appointed to the National Science Board in 2006.

July 2011