[council] ICANN 2011 Nominating Committee Announces Selections

[Glen de Saint Géry <Glen@xxxxxxxxx>]

http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-05aug11-en.htm

ICANN 2011 Nominating Committee Announces Selections

5 August 2011

The 2011 ICANN Nominating Committee (NomCom) has completed its selections for 
eight leadership positions within ICANN.

The NomCom's Chair, Adam Peake, said "We are very pleased to have been able to 
select such high quality people to join ICANN. They are a great group, bringing 
skills and experience that will serve the community well. It's been a tough 
job, the NomCom had to choose from a very strong applicant pool, with many 
highly qualified candidates for every position, including a record number of 
female applicants. After many hours of teleconferences and meetings, and then 
almost two and half days of discussion locked away in a room in Singapore, we 
reached unanimous agreement on all the selected nominees and the overall slate 
that includes individuals from China, Germany, Jamaica, Malaysia, Nigeria, 
Philippines and United States. Thanks to my committee for their hard work, and 
on behalf of all the NomCom a very sincere Thank You to all 88 candidates who 
gave their time and effort in volunteering to help ICANN".

The NomCom is charged with recruiting and selecting a portion of ICANN's 
leadership. The 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.

The NomCom evaluated over eighty-eight candidates, many of whom with 
exceptional qualifications in relation to the key criteria as set out in the 
ICANN Bylaws. With such a rich pool of candidates and very few seats to fill, 
the NomCom found itself unable to appoint all the applicants the Committee 
members would have desired to see on the Board and on the other bodies.

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Selectees listed for each ICANN body, in alphabetical order by family name.

ICANN Board of Directors

Steve 
Crocker<http://www.icann.org/en/biog/nomcom-bios-05aug11-en.htm#stephen-crocker>,
 United States

Judith 
Vasquez<http://www.icann.org/en/biog/nomcom-bios-05aug11-en.htm#judith-duavit-vazquez>,
 Philippines

ALAC

Titi 
Akinsanmi<http://www.icann.org/en/biog/nomcom-bios-05aug11-en.htm#titi-akinsanmi>,
 Nigeria

Rinalia Abdul 
Rahim<http://www.icann.org/en/biog/nomcom-bios-05aug11-en.htm#rinalia-abdul-rahim>,
 Malaysia

Carlton 
Samuels<http://www.icann.org/en/biog/nomcom-bios-05aug11-en.htm#carlton-samuels>,
 Jamaica

GNSO Council

Lanre 
Ajayi<http://www.icann.org/en/biog/nomcom-bios-05aug11-en.htm#lanre-ajayi>, 
Nigeria

Thomas 
Rickert<http://www.icann.org/en/biog/nomcom-bios-05aug11-en.htm#thomas-rickert>,
 Germany

ccNSO Council

Hong Xue<http://www.icann.org/en/biog/nomcom-bios-05aug11-en.htm#hong-xue>, 
China

These individuals will take up their positions after the end of ICANN's Annual 
General Meeting in Dakar, Senegal, on 28 October 2011.

This year's Nominating Committee received 88 Statements of Interest from 
candidates all over the world (23 female and 65 male), during its open 
nomination period from 17 December 2010 to 4 April 2011. The regional breakdown 
of this year's candidates is:

 *   19 from Africa,
 *   24 from Asia/Australia/Pacific
 *   14 from Europe
 *   15 from Latin America/Caribbean
 *   16 from North America

For more information about the NomCom, please visit http://nomcom.icann.org/





Glen de Saint Géry

GNSO Secretariat

gnso.secretariat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

http://gnso.icann.org