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<h2><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>News Alert<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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margin-left:0in'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-04nov10-en.htm">http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-04nov10-en.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h2 style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>Meet ICANN's 2010 Nominating Committee Selectees<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>4
November 2010<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>ICANN's Nominating Committee
is charged with recruiting and selecting a portion of ICANN's leadership.
NomCom is mandated to ensure, that overall, ICANN's leadership is diverse in
geography, culture, skills, experience, and perspective. The basic criteria is
that selectees are people of integrity, objectivity and sound judgment, can
support decision-making within groups, can work effectively in English, have an
understanding of ICANN's mission and operation, are committed to its success,
experienced in world affairs, contribute to cultural, professional and
geographic expertise, and can work long and hard as volunteers in the global
public trust.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>On 7 September 2010, the
Nominating Committee announced its selections for seven leadership positions
within ICANN (<a
href="http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-07sep10-en.htm">http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-07sep10-en.htm</a>).
Biographies of the selected individuals are listed for each ICANN body, in
alphabetical order by family name.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h3><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Board of Directors<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><img border=0 id="_x0000_i1028"
src="http://www.icann.org/en/biog/photos/chalaby-135x145.jpg"
alt="Cherine Chalaby"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Cherine Chalaby's</span></strong><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> extensive international career
encompasses leadership roles in banking and technology.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Beginning in London in 1977,
Cherine joined one of the world's largest IT services companies, Accenture. As
senior partner, he held key managing positions, ultimately serving on
Accenture's Executive Committee and its Global Leadership Council. During his
28-year tenure at Accenture, he led several projects aimed at improving the
flow of information between financial markets participants, projects that have
been made possible by the expansion of the internet. His experience is broad
and extensive. It ranges from strategy development through systems
implementation and transformational change to running operations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>In March 2006, Cherine joined
Rasmala, a Middle East-based regional investment bank, where he held several
positions including chairman of the supervisory board, chairman of the
management board and chairman of the bank's subsidiary in Egypt. Previous
Middle East experience involved projects dating from the 1980s and included
setting up a trading and back office system for a local commercial bank,
developing a blueprint for an international exchange, developing and installing
a local exchange system, and developing one of the first Internet-based
brokerage systems in the region.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Cherine has considerable
board experience, having served on seven separate boards of directors.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Cherine is a citizen of Egypt
and also holds a British citizenship. He attended the French Jesuits School of
Cairo, holds a BSc in Electrical Engineering from Cairo University and an MSc
in Computing Sciences from the Imperial College of London. He is fluent in
English, French and Arabic.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><img border=0 id="_x0000_i1029"
src="http://www.icann.org/en/biog/photos/de-la-chapelle-135x145.jpg"
alt="Bertrand de La Chapelle"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Bertrand de La
Chapelle</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> has
actively promoted multi-stakeholder governance processes since 2001, building
on wide-ranging experience as a diplomat, an entrepreneur and a civil society
actor.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>In 1986, Bertrand became a
French career diplomat, but also accumulated nine years of private sector
experience founded on his training as an engineer. Between 1990 and 1998, he
founded the consulting department of a leading French technology monitoring
firm and was a co-founder and president of Virtools, which provides the world's
leading development environment for 3D interactive content.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Bertrand actively
participated in the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) process
between 2002 and 2005 to promote dialogue among civil society, the private
sector and governmental representatives. During that time he also served as
director of the collaborative platform WSIS-online.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>From 2006 to 2010, Bertrand
served as France's Thematic Ambassador and Special Envoy for the Information
Society, where he monitored all WSIS follow-up activities and Internet
governance processes, even acting as a vice-chair of ICANN's Governmental Advisory
Committee (GAC) and in 2008 as a member of the Multi-Stakeholder Advisory Group
(MAG) of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Bertrand is a graduate of
Ecole Polytechnique (1978), Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (1983) and
Ecole Nationale d'Administration (1986).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><img border=0 id="_x0000_i1030"
src="http://www.icann.org/en/biog/photos/mann-135x145.jpg" alt="Erika Mann"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Erika Mann</span></strong><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> brings to the ICANN Board extensive
knowledge in foreign policy matters. Between 1994 and 2009, Erika was a German
member of the European Parliament, where she concentrated on trade and World
Trade Organization (WTO) policy, transatlantic relations, digital economy,
telecommunications and Internet policy, and research policy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Between 2003 and 2008, while
she was the European chairperson of the Transatlantic Policy Network (TPN),
Erika conceived the notion of a Transatlantic Market between the EU and US.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>This concept led to the
founding of the Transatlantic Economic Council (TEC), where she was a member of
the advisory board until 2009. She was a founder of the European Internet
Foundation, which she chaired until mid-2009.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Erika has acquired
considerable expertise in transatlantic relations and international Internet
policy formation. She is a lecturer and author of many publications on trade,
transatlantic relations and Internet-world related topics, and has received
awards from multiple organizations, including the European-American Business
Council for Exceptional Transatlantic Commitment, and has also been awarded the
Bundesverdienstkreuz am Bande (the German Federal Cross of Merit).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Erika is currently the
Executive Vice President of the Computer & Communications Industry
Association; she is a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Atlantic Council and a
Trustee of Friends of Europe and serves on the Advisory Board of the European
Policy Center. She holds a degree in social science from the University of
Hannover, Germany.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h3><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>GNSO Council<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><img border=0 id="_x0000_i1032"
src="http://www.icann.org/en/biog/photos/aguirre-135x145.jpg"
alt="Carlos Dionisio Aguirre"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Carlos Dionisio
Aguirre</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> is a
professor of Economics and of Law, Economics and Technology in an Information
Society at the National University of Cordoba Law School, receiving academic
recognition in 2008. Also, he is a professor of Legislation at the Analist of
Informatics Systems at the National University of Cordoba and taught a
postgraduate course in law in the information society at the National
University of La Plata, in addition to teaching at the South School on Internet
Governance. He has been invited to teach in postgraduate courses in consumer
law, legal aspects of e-commerce, and e-commerce at many other institutions of
learning in Argentina.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Since 2004, Carlos has been
director and academic responsible for law and economics at the Juridic Studies
Institute of the Cordoba Bar Association. He is a founding member of the
Cordoba Business Law Specialist Lawyers Association (ASEDEN), and a founding
member and international director of AGEIA DENSI (Asociación Grupo de Estudio e
Investigación en Derecho, Economía y Negocios en la Sociedad de la
Información), an ICANN At-Large Structure which currently has national chapters
in many countries.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>In 2006, Carlos became a
founding member of LACRALO (Latin American and Caribbean Regional At Large
Organization), where has served as served as a member of the Operating
Principles Development Committee since 2006. He was also a signer of the
LACRALO-ICANN MOU in December 2006.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>In 2006, Carlos was elected
to serve on ICANN's At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC), and was elected for a
second consecutive term in 2008. He was ALAC liaison to the GNSO NCUC in 2007
and 2008, and chair of the ALAC Participation and Engagement in ICANN Working
Group, and has served as ALAC liaison to the Joint SO/AC New gTLD Applicants
Support Working Group. He has also attended and actively participated in more
than a dozen ICANN international meetings.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Carlos is currently the
vice-chair of ADIAR, the Argentinean Association of Cyber Law<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Carlos received his degree in
law in 1988 and a postgraduate specialization in Business Law in 2009 from the
National University of Cordoba in Argentina. An Argentinian citizen, he is a
native Spanish speaker and also fluent in English.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h3><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>ccNSO Council<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><img border=0 id="_x0000_i1034"
src="http://www.icann.org/en/biog/photos/haxhiu-135x145.jpg" alt="Sokol Haxhiu"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Sokol Haxhiu</span></strong><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> has more than 10 years of extensive
management and senior expert experience working in the USA, Albania, and Kosovo
with international organizations such as the United Nations Development
Programme, GTZ, EU, and Soros Foundation. He led the strategic direction,
guidance and management of a programme at UNDP that includes several important
ICT4D projects and initiatives with the Albanian government. He has been in
charge of large-scale project planning, preparation, management and
administration and has expertise in capacity building, institutional
strengthening, change management, talent development and resource allocation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>For the past several years,
Sokol has advised the Government of Albania in information and communication
technologies as part of his work with UNDP. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>As a team leader he
initiated, designed and managed several important ICT projects for Albania,
among them the e-School Project, National ICT Strategy, the GovNet Project, the
e-Accounting Project, the e-Service Project, x-Road, the TA Project, and
e-Visa. He has worked in cooperation with the Albanian central government to
set up the National Agency for Information Society by providing technical
assistance and training.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Before joining UNDP, Sokol
was head of the ICT department of Tirana, where he was responsible for
reforming the municipality's entire work and processes through ICT. He is now
Executive Director of the Center for Development and Technology, a
not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting development through
technology and innovation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>An Albanian native speaker,
he is also fluent in English and Italian. He has a Master of Science degree in
Telecommunications/Computer Science Management from Oklahoma State University
in the USA and a BA with honors from Harding University in the USA. He has been
certified in ICT and e-governance from the e-Governance Academy in Estonia and
in Internet Governance from the Diplo Foundation in Malta.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h3><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>ALAC<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><img border=0 id="_x0000_i1036"
src="http://www.icann.org/en/biog/photos/bachollet-135x145.jpg"
alt="Sébastien Bachollet"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Sébastien Bachollet</span></strong><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> began his career in 1985 with Air
Inter (the French domestic airline), then moved to SNCF (French National
Railways) where he led innovative technological and organizational projects
focused on information systems. With this experience, in the early 2000s he
relaunched and promoted the development of CIO (Chief Information Officer)
networks at the national level within CIGREF (Club Informatique des Grandes
Entreprises Françaises) and at the European level with the creation of EuroCio.
Within this framework, he was responsible for strategic development and
networking. As deputy general manager of CIGREF, he represented CIGREF and
business users in Internet governance at all levels in France, Europe and
worldwide.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>CIGREF has been a member of
ICANN's GNSO Business Constituency since its inception.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Since his work with SNCF,
Sébastien has been deeply involved in the Internet world. He launched the <a
href="http://www.sncf.fr/">www.sncf.fr</a> web site, the largest e-business web
site in France today.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Sébastien worked actively to
set up and hold the European Global Event on Domain Names and Address Systems,
now known as EGENI Europe, held in Paris annually from 2002 to 2008 with more
than 250 participants each year. He launched EGENI Africa in 2006 with ISOC
Morocco.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Since 2001, Sébastien has
been a member of the Internet Society French Chapter (<a
href="http://www.isoc.fr/">www.isoc.fr</a>), has served on its board since 2003
and was declared the Honorary President in 2009. He is an honorary member of
other Internet Society chapters as well. He was elected European Internet users
representative in May 2007 and has been the ALAC (At-Large Advisory Committee)
vice-chair since 2008.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>A citizen of France,
Sébastien has served since June 2004 as the founding CEO of BBS International
Consulting, a consultancy specializing in information systems with particular
emphasis on Internet technologies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Marc Rotenberg</span></strong><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> – No biography provided.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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