[council] The Nominating Committee Announces Selection of a Member to the ICANN Board of Directors

[Glen de Saint Géry <Glen@xxxxxxxxx>]

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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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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
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