[council] Dr Liz Williams to act as Senior Policy Advisor providing advice to Olof Nordling

["Bruce Tonkin" <Bruce.Tonkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: Kurt Pritz [mailto:pritz@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Saturday, 25 June 2005 10:33 AM
To: Bruce Tonkin; 'Chris Disspain'; hpholen@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Liz Williams Announcement

LIZ WILLIAMS

ICANN is pleased to announce that Dr. Williams will be providing
consultancy services in the area of policy development. In this regard,
Dr. Williams will act as Senior Policy Advisor providing advice to Olof
Nordling, Manager Policy Development Coordination. The Senior Advisory
role is a full-time, temporary position intended to bridge the time
necessary to hire and install the new Vice President, Policy Development
Support who will be replacing Paul Verhoef. Due to the variety of duties
associated with the new position and the transition, it is anticipated
that Dr. Williams appointment will extend for nine to twelve months. Dr.
Williams is expected to begin work on
1 July and attend the upcoming ICANN meeting in Luxembourg.

Dr. Williams brings long term experience in the ICANN environment across
the ccTLD, registry and registrar constituencies. She is a former .auDA
Board Director and Deputy Chair of the Board and has worked in North
America, the Mekong and in the South Pacific on internet governance and
telecommunications issues. She specialises in developing regulatory
structures, policy development and compliance and institutional
strengthening. She has a doctorate in information technology and law on
the globalisation of regulation and the domain name system and a masters
in communication on regulating the Internet and privacy protection.  Dr.
Williams will work primarily from the ICANN office in Brussels.

Please refer question to Kurt Pritz at the information below.

Sincerely,


Kurt Pritz
ICANN
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