Alejandro Pisanty
Alejandro Pisanty is currently Director of Computing Academic Services at UNAM, the National Autonomous University of Mexico, in Mexico City, Mexico. He also serves as Chairman of the Board of CUDI, Corporación Universitaria para el Desarrollo de Internet, the Mexican Internet 2 Consortium, as well as Chairman of the Board of ISOC Mexico. He has served UNAM as Coordinator of the Distance Education Project (1995–1997), Technical Secretary of the Computing Advisory Council (1991-1997) and Head of the Graduate School in Chemistry (1993–1995, as well as Professor in the School of Chemistry. From UNAM he also leads the National Network for Videoconference in Education.
Mr. Pisanty received a bachelors degree in Chemistry, and an M.Sc and Ph.D. degrees in Physical Chemistry from UNAM. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung in Stuttgart, Germany (1984–1986).
He was selected for the ICANN Board by the Domain Name Supporting Organization and was seated at the 1999 annual meeting. He served until mid-2003, when he was again selected by the DNSO to a second term that expired mid-2004. Alejandro was then elected to a third term by the DNSO, which ended six months after the 2006 Annual Meeting.
