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margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-07sep10-en.htm">http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-07sep10-en.htm</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<h2 style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>ICANN 2010 Nominating Committee Announces Selections</span><o:p></o:p></h2>
<p style='mso-margin-top-alt:9.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;
margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>7
September 2010</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The 2010 ICANN Nominating
Committee (NomCom) has completed its selections for seven leadership positions
within ICANN.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The NomCom’s Chair, Wolfgang
Kleinwaechter, said "We are proud to announce this year’s selectees to ICANN’s
leadership. They include highly accomplished and experienced individuals from
Albania, Argentina, Egypt, France, Germany, and the United States. The
Committee noted with deep satisfaction that so many highly qualified
individuals had put their names forward for these positions. At the same time,
this made the Committee´s work particularly complex, with difficult choices
between numerous excellent candidates to fill just a handful of positions. The
final selections, a consensus after long deliberations in the Committee,
combines renewal with expertise and experience in a way that we trust will
reinforce ICANN and meet the community's expectations. Furthermore, for the
first time in ICANN’s history, since 1998, the Committee has selected a
representative of the Arab speaking community to the Board, which underlines
the importance of ! further internationalization of ICANN."</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>NomCom is charged with
recruiting and selecting a portion of ICANN’s leadership. 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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>NomCom evaluated over eighty
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, 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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Selectees listed for
each ICANN body, in alphabetical order by family name.</span></strong><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> (Biographies of these individuals
will be posted soon)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<h3><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>ICANN Board of Directors</span><o:p></o:p></h3>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Cherine Chalaby, Egypt</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Bertrand de La Chapelle,
France <a name=text1></a><a href="#foot1">*</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Erika Mann, Germany</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<h3><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>ALAC</span><o:p></o:p></h3>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Sébastien Bachollet, France</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Marc Rotenberg, United States</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<h3><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>GNSO Council</span><o:p></o:p></h3>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Carlos Aguirre, Argentina</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<h3><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>ccNSO Council</span><o:p></o:p></h3>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Sokol Haxhiu, Albania</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>These individuals will take
up their positions at the end of ICANN’s Annual General Meeting in Cartagena,
Colombia, on 10 December 2010.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>This year’s Nominating
Committee received 82 Statements of Interest from candidates all over the world
(four female and 78 male), during its open nomination period from 2 December
2009 to 15 April 2010. The regional breakdown of this year’s candidates is:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>11 from Africa,</span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>20 from Asia/Australia/Pacific</span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>23 from Europe</span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>7 from Latin America/Caribbean</span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>21 from North America</span><o:p></o:p></li>
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<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>For more information about
NomCom, please visit <a href="http://nomcom.icann.org/">http://nomcom.icann.org/</a></span><span
style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><a name=foot1></a><a href="#text1"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>*</span></a><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> In the attached </span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://www.icann.org/correspondence/de-la-chapelle-to-nomcom-redacted-20aug10-en.pdf"><span
lang=EN-US>letter</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> [PDF, 40 KB], Bertrand de La Chapelle has
confirmed to the NomCom that, in order to comply with Article VI, section 4.1
of the ICANN Bylaws, he will leave his position as Thematic Ambassador and
Special Envoy for the Information Society in the French Foreign and European
Ministry prior to taking his seat as an ICANN Director.</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;
color:#1F497D'>Glen de Saint Géry<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;
color:#1F497D'>GNSO Secretariat<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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