Jamie Hedlund | Vice President of Government Affairs - Americas
Jamie joined ICANN in January 2010 and heads the Washington, DC, office, where he is responsible for US government relationships and also supports all other government relationships in the Americas as well as the Global Partnerships unit. Jamie reports directly to the CEO.
Before joining ICANN, Jamie served as Vice President, Regulatory Affairs for the Consumer Electronics Association. From 2005-2008, he led Yahoo! Inc.'s public policy efforts in Washington, DC, on media and technology issues. He spent four years working at Level 3 Communications, a Tier 1 Internet provider, where he negotiated complex, multimillion-dollar transactions with large purchasers of bandwidth services and was chief of staff to the head of the EU business unit. He became a telecommunications regulatory attorney following a three-year stint at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. Jamie has lived in Paris and Mexico City and speaks French and Spanish.
