ICANN | Nomination Period Closes for 2009 Nom Com

On 15 April 2009, the nomination period closed to applicants for one of the nine open ICANN leadership positions this year. The Nominating Committee received 86 Statements of Interest from candidates worldwide during its open nomination period from 2 December 2008 to 15 April 2009. (The 2008 Nominating Committee received a comparable number of applications: 78). 71 of the 2009 candidates are men and 15 are women.

The 2009 Nom Com began its work in November 2008 at ICANN's Annual Meeting in Cairo. This year's committee will select candidates for the following positions:

3 seats on the ICANN Board of Directors
3 members of the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) (from the following regions: Africa; Asia/Australia/Pacific; and Latin America/Caribbean)
1 Country Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO) Council member
2 Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Council members

The regional breakdown of this year's candidates is as follows:

10 from Africa,
24 from Asia/Australia/Pacific
23 from Europe
12 from Latin America/Caribbean.
17 from North America

The 2009 Nom Com will collect information and evaluate the candidates through June 2009, when it will hold a face-to-face meeting following the ICANN meeting in Sydney, Australia. After the candidates are selected, further due diligence checks will be done for each one. The selections will be announced in early September 2009.

Successful candidates will take up their positions following ICANN's Annual Meeting in Seoul, Korea in October 2009.

Information about the 2009 Nominating Committee is available at http://nomcom.icann.org.