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Yes - congratulations Wolfgang - and ready to support you in this new role!
best
Joy
On 17/11/2013 6:25 a.m., Robin Gross wrote:
> Here's the formal announcement of Wolfgang's appointment to the ICANN Board of Directors.  Congrats,
Wolfgang!
>
> Best,
> Robin
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> *From: *Glen de Saint Géry <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
>> *Subject: **[liaison6c] The Nominating Committee Announces Selection
of a Member to the ICANN Board of Directors*
>> *Date: *November 16, 2013 4:46:20 AM PST
>> *To: *liaison6c <[log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
>>
>>
>>   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
>>
>> Wolfgang Kleinwächter
<http://www.icann.org/sites/default/files/assets/kleinwachter-150x200-15nov13.png>
>>
>> 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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