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Recruitment for ICANN Leadership Positions: 2009 Nominating Committee

12 February 2009

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The 2009 Nominating Committee began its work in November 2008 following the ICANN Annual Meeting in Cairo, Egypt, and is actively seeking qualified candidates for the following key positions within ICANN:

  • Three members of the ICANN Board of Directors
  • Three members of the At Large Advisory Committee (for the African, Asia/Australia/Pacific, and Latin American regions)
  • Two members of the Council of the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO)
  • One member of the Council of the Country-Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO)
  • Those selected by the Nom Com will take their seats at the end of the 2009 ICANN Annual Meeting, 30 October 2009 in Seoul, Korea.
  • The Nom Com will be conducting a workshop and other outreach activities during the At Large Summit and the ICANN meeting in Mexico City (28 February - 6 March 2009), see http://mex.icann.org/ for more information.

The people selected by the Nominating Committee will have a unique opportunity to work with accomplished colleagues from around the globe, address intriguing technical coordination problems and related policy development challenges with diverse functional, cultural, and geographic dimensions, and gain valuable insights and experience from working across these boundaries of knowledge, responsibility and perspective.

Information on applying is available at http://nomcom.icann.org/. Prospective candidates are invited to submit their Statements of Interest to the Nominating Committee by 15 April 2009 23:59 UTC.