Hi everyone, Tech Daily's People Column this week notes the new hires/shifts in staff at ICANN. Thought you'd be interested. Frannie Due to a bigger and better budget, the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is expanding its payroll. New on the roster is Olof Nordling, manager of policy development coordination. Nordling is from Sweden and spent much of his career with TeliaSonera, a telecommunications provider that serves Scandinavian and Baltic countries. In what must have been a particularly tough phase of his professional trajectory, Nordling was chancellor of science and technology at the Swedish embassy in Paris. And speaking of diplomatic-sounding titles, Maria Farrell has joined ICANN as supporting officer for generic Internet endings such as .com. The Irish national was formerly policy manager for e-business, information technology and telecom at the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris. She also has spent a great deal of time in the classroom. Farrell holds a master's degree in interactive media from the Dublin Institute of Technology and a master's degree in science from the London School of Economics. And she is not finished yet. She also is pursuing a master's in business administration part time at the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School in Belgium. Not to be outdone in the accent department is Donna Austin, the supporting officer for country-based domain name endings such as .jp for Japan. The Australian spent many years in the Australian government and was most recently manager of two broadcasting grant programs. Holding down the technical fort is Barbara Roseman, the new operations manager for the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). For those readers who might not know all the inner workings of the organization, IANA oversees the allocation of Internet protocol addresses, which give discreet numbers to every computer on the worldwide network. Roseman has been a regular consultant to ICANN since 2000 and was formerly a manager at Global Crossing. She holds a bachelor's degree from Mills College and a master's degree from the City University of New York. -- * * * * Frannie Wellings Free Press Washington DC Office http://freepress.net +1.202.265.1490