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Hello, my name is Lauren Van Weiser, and I am Vice President Global Public Policy and Regulatory Affairs for Akamai Technologies.

So I wasn't someone who had a particular profession emblazoned on my forehead from when I was young.

I enjoyed doing a lot of things, everything from language, mathematics, outdoors.

But I had a father who was a PhD engineer and who said to me, okay, Lauren, you know, you like doing so many things,

but you'll never pick up an engineering textbook for fun on a Saturday night, but you would

pick up something in history or languages. And so why don't you give that a shot? And so I went into engineering.

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