David Macneil, is Director of Network Relations at CANARIE, on secondment from UNB where he is Professor of Computer Science. He has been at UNB since 1967 and was Director of Computing Services from 1979 to 2000. Professor Macneil has been extensively involved with organizing computer networking in Canada for the past thirty years.

He has served as Executive Secretary of the Canadian university computer network, NetNorth and was a founding member of the Board of Directors of CA*net and its vice-chair.

He was a founding member of the Board of Directors of CANARIE a consortium of more than 100 Canadian organizations and the major federal government initiative to construct a world class research network infrastructure for Canada. Professor Macneil was a founding member and chairman of the NATO Science Council Advisory Panel on Computer Networking.