About Me

Drummond Reed has spent over three decades in internet identity, security, privacy, and trust infrastructure. He is currently leading the First Person Project as a director of the First Person Cooperative. 

From 2021 to 2025, Drummond was the director of Trust Services at Gen (formerly Avast) after its acquisition of Evernym, where he was chief trust officer. He is co-author of the book Self-Sovereign Identity (Manning Publications, 2021) and co-editor of the “W3C Decentralized Identifiers (DID) 1.0” specification. He currently serves as governance lead for the Ayra Association.

Drummond is a founding board member of the OpenWallet Foundation and Trust Over IP (ToIP), where he serves as co-chair of the Technology Stack Working Group, the Concepts and Terminology Working Group, and the Decentralized Trust Graph Working Group. In 2002, he received the Digital Identity Pioneer Award from Digital ID World, and in 2013 he was cited as an OASIS Distinguished Contributor.