[council] ICANN Board Conflicts of Interest Review - Independent Expert Report

[Glen de Saint Géry <Glen@xxxxxxxxx>]

http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-8-04jun12-en.htm
ICANN Board Conflicts of Interest Review - Independent Expert Report
4 June 2012

As part of ICANN's ongoing focus on improving how the ICANN Board addresses 
conflicts of interest, as well as enhancing ICANN's ethical culture, ICANN is 
posting the work of the team of international ethic experts in this regard. The 
team, comprised of Jermyn Brooks (former World Chair of Price Waterhouse; 
currently Board member of Transparency International and Chair of its Business 
Advisory Board; Chair of the Global Network Initiative), Mervyn King (ex-judge 
from South Africa, the most prominent name in corporate governance worldwide, 
currently honorary chair of the Global Reporting Initiative and Chair of the 
International Integrated Reporting Council) and Aron Cramer (president and CEO 
of Business for Social Responsibility, prolific speaker and writer on corporate 
responsibility and sustainability issues as well as advisor to many companies 
including the ICT industry), has prepared a Report for 
discussion<http://prague44.icann.org/meetings/prague2012/presentation-ethics-coi-final-report-25jun12-en.pdf>
 [PDF, 570 KB] with the ICANN Board and the community at the upcoming Prague 
meeting. Information on the session is available at 
http://prague44.icann.org/node/31635.

The team's work has been conducted in coordination with the Board Governance 
Committee, and is the third part of ICANN's comprehensive review of its 
conflicts and ethics practices. Just 
recently<http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-2-15may12-en.htm>,
 ICANN adopted a Revised Conflicts of Interest Policy and additional governance 
documents, and also released two reports by Cooley LLC on ICANN's corporate 
governance practices.


Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat
gnso.secretariat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://gnso.icann.org