Re: [npoc-voice] Fwd: [liaison6c] The Nominating Committee Announces Selection of a Member to the ICANN Board of Directors

[Olivier Kouami <olivierkouami@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Marie-laure,
Thank you so much for sharing this news with us.
Cheers !
-Olevie-



2013/11/16 <mlemineur@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

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> Asunto: Fwd: [liaison6c] The Nominating Committee Announces Selection of a
> Member to the ICANN Board of Directors
> De:     "marie-laure Lemineur" <mllemineur@xxxxxxxxx>
> Fecha:  Sab, 16 de Noviembre de 2013, 11:33 am
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> Subject: [liaison6c] The Nominating Committee Announces Selection of a
> Member to the ICANN Board of Directors
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> http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-15nov13-en.htm
> The Nominating Committee Announces Selection of a Member to the ICANN Board
> of Directors
>
> 15 November 2013
>
> The 2013 Nominating Committee (NomCom) is pleased to announce the selection
> of Wolfgang Kleinwächter as a member to the ICANN Board of Directors.
>
> The position became vacant following the recent resignation of Board member
> Ms. Judith Duavit Vazquez, selected by the 2011 NomCom. Wolfgang
> Kleinwächter will take up his position on the ICANN Board of Directors
> immediately and will serve for the remainder of the term vacated by Ms.
> Vazquez, ending at the conclusion of the 2014 ICANN Annual General Meeting.
>
> Yrjo Lansipuro
> Chair, 2013 Nominating Committee
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> Wolfgang Kleinwächter
>
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> Kleinwächter]<
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>
> Wolfgang Kleinwächter is a Professor for International Communication Policy
> and Regulation at the Department for Media and Information Sciences of the
> University of Aarhus in Denmark where he teaches "Internet Policy and
> Regulation" since 1998.
>
> He has studied Communication, International Law and International Relations
> at the University of Leipzig (B.A. 1971, M.A. 1974, Ph.D. 1981). His
> Academic Teaching Experiences includes courses and lectures on Internet
> Governance at numerous universities around the globe, including, inter alia
> die School of International Services at American University in Washington
> D.C. and the Faculty of Journalism at Lomonossow University in Moscow.
>
> He is involved in Internet Governance issues since 1997 and has
> participated - in various capacities - in 45 ICANN meetings. He served five
> years in the NomCom (2009/2010 as its chair) and was since 2011 a member of
> the GNSO Council, elected by the Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group (NCSG)
> where he is a member of the NCUC.
>
> In the WSIS process he was a member of the Civil Society Bureau, co-chaired
> the Internet Governance Caucus (IGC) and was appointed by UN Secretary
> General Kofi Annan as for the UN Working Group on Internet Governance
> (WGIG). In the Tunis Summit he was part of the governmental delegation of
> Denmark. Between 2006 and 2010 he served as Special Adviser to the Chair of
> the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), Nitin Desai. In 2011/2012 he was a
> member of the UNCSTD Working Group on IGF Improvement. In 2012 he joined
> the German governmental delegation to the World Conference on International
> Telecommunication (WCIT) and served in the Informal Expert Group of the
> World Telecommunication Policy Forum in 2013.
>
> He is a co-founder of the European Dialogue on Internet Governance
> (EURODIG), the Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GIGANET), the
> Summer School on Internet Governance (SSIG) and chair of the ICANN
> Studienkreis. He served in the Advisory Board of the dotmobi Registry and
> became in 2010 an International Adviser to CNNIC. In the EU, he was
> involved in the Safer Internet Action Plan (SIAP), the Task Force on the
> Internet of Things and the Inter-Regional Information Society Initiative
> (IRISI). In the Council of Europe he chaired the Expert Group on Cross
> Border Internet (2009 – 2011).
>
> For more than 20 years he was a member of the Council of the International
> Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) and served as the
> president of the IAMCR Law Section between 1988 and 1998. He was a member
> of the Program Committee for INET 2002 in Washington D.C. and a Key-Note
> Speaker, Panelist, Moderator and Rapporteur of numerous international
> conferences.
>
> His research work includes more than 100 international publications,
> including 7 books. Since 2011 he is the editor of the publication series
> MIND (Multistakeholder Internet Dialogue). He also served as member of
> several advisory boards of scientific journals, including Transnational
> Data and Communication Report, Computer Law and Security Report, The
> Journal of Media Law and Practice, Gazette and the Journal for Virtual
> Reality.
>
> He testified in Hearings in the Deutsche Bundestag and the European
> Parliament. He is Chair of the Board of Medienstadt Leipzig e.V., a
> recognized At Large Structure under the ICANN Bylaws and got the "Internet
> Award" the highest Internet prize in Germany, by the German Internet
> Economy Association (eco) in 2012
>
>
>
> Glen de Saint Géry
> GNSO Secretariat
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