Khalil is the Sr. Manager, Contractual Compliance at ICANN. Khalil is responsible for implementing the audit related goals and objectives of the Contractual Compliance department. He is primarily responsible for all compliance audits of gTLD registry and registrar agreements. He also serves as the ICANN liaison to domain name dispute arbitration panels and intellectual property attorneys to resolve sensitive trademark issues.

Before joining ICANN, Khalil worked in a variety of capacities where he gained legal, compliance and intellectual property experience. Previously, he served as legal counsel at Solectron Corporation, where he negotiated manufacturing and licensing contracts in addition to counseling sales operations on corporate governance and compliance matters. He also served as a law clerk for the Honorable Judge Blackshear, Federal Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. At Sun Microsystems, Khalil was responsible for reviewing outbound software licenses for compliance with internal policies. He also supported Java software products, which are used in a variety of computing platforms and web browsers. Khalil worked for both the Government of the District of Columbia and United States Department of Justice in various regulatory roles.

Khalil holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Legal Communications from Howard University and a Juris Doctorate degree from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington D.C. He is licensed to practice law in California.