Strategic Planning Committee of the Board (SPC)

Amitabh has over four decades of corporate and non-profit work experience of which for nearly three decades he has held senior management positions in the telecommunications industry, as well as leadership positions at various non-profit Internet and non-governmental organisations (NGOs). He has worked throughout his career in voluntary capacities, gaining leadership experience in the networking, domain name system, IP addressing and ICT4D spaces.

During mid 1990’s and early 2000’s, Amitabh served as Senior Vice President and Group Head of Corporate Affairs at GTL Limited, a Network Infrastructure company, where amongst other things, he was involved in helping build some of the first privately run Data Networks in India to provide Email/Electronic Data Interchange services. Prior to this in mid 1980’s, Amitabh was involved in introducing computers in several government and public sector organizations.

In 1994-95, Amitabh cofounded and was Secretary and President of the ISP Association of India, where amongst other initiatives, he helped draft and adopt key Internet policy and licensing terms which shaped India’s acceptance of principles surrounding an open and free Internet. He was also the ISP sector’s key spokesperson for nearly a decade and represented the sector throughout industry and the media.

Amitabh conceived and founded the National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) in collaboration with the Government of India. Under his stewardship, as Founder and CEO, NIXI set critical Internet infrastructure projects, including the first Internet exchanges across the country. In addition, he was instrumental in leading the successful relaunch of the .IN ccTLD Registry and setting up India’s first root instances between 2003 and 2005.

Amitabh helped train and build local capacity to enable India’s initial engagements with regional Internet organizations, and worked with the government to enable hosting of the first APNIC, IGF and ICANN public meetings in India.

For eight years, Amitabh served as a Board member of Public Internet Registry (PIR) that manages .ORG, serving as Board Secretary for five of those years. While on the PIR Board, he was very active in PIR’s introduction of new top-level domains.

Amitabh has a demonstrated track record in advocacy, policy and regulatory development work, corporate management, board governance, marketing and business development, industry-government liaison, project work, startups in Solar, Disaster Management and Power sector, legal and compliance work, altogether in multicultural and multilingual environments. One of his more recent memorable work endeavours was assisting the Afghan Ministry of Communications to launch their first ever IXP services (NIXA) in Kabul in 2018.

Amitabh is also currently working on an initiative to develop a technical platform to improve trust and security in the Internet, as well as leading a team to develop a standard for the Network Maturity Assessment Model at the Bureau of Indian Standards.

Amitabh has both a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws Degrees, along with Post Graduate Diploma in Marketing & Sales. He is also a Certified Board Director by the Institute of Directors in India.

Amitabh was nominated to serve on the ICANN Board by the Nominating Committee in 2024. His term will expire at the Annual General Meeting in 2027.

Alan Barrett holds a B.Sc.Eng. and M.Sc.Eng. from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (then called the University of Natal), Durban, South Africa. Alan was involved in setting up the first Internet connection for South African universities in 1990/1991. In 1993, he was a co-founder of the first commercial ISP in South Africa, then called TICSA, later Internet Africa and UUNET South Africa, where he remained until 1999. Alan then joined a small Internet firewall company, CEQURUX Technologies, where he remained until the company went out of business in 2007. After that, he worked as a software consultant. In 2015, Alan was appointed as CEO of AFRINIC, where he remained until 2019. Alan was a co-author of the 1997 proposal to create AFRINIC, serving on a steering committee tasked with creating AFRINIC, and was elected to the first AFRINIC Board in 2004, where he served until 2009. He was appointed by the AFRINIC Board to the Number Resource Organization Number Council (NRO NC) / Address Supporting Organization Address Council (ASO AC), from 2004 to 2014. During part of the IANA stewardship transition, from 2015 to 2016, he served in the IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG), as an appointee of the NRO. Alan was selected by the ASO to serve on the ICANN Board in 2021. His term will expire at the Annual General Meeting in 2024.

Constance Bommelaer de Leusse has more than 20 years of professional experience. She is currently affiliated with the AI and Society Institute at École Normale Supérieure – Paris Sciences et Lettres University and with the Technology and Global Affairs Innovation Hub at Sciences Po University, where she leads tech policy research and engagement programs.

Constance began her career working for the French Prime Minister’s Office (2003–2006) on information society issues before joining the Internet Society (2006–2022). As Vice President of Institutional Relations and Empowerment, she led the Internet Society’s international partnerships and policy work across stakeholder communities. She also conducted training and learning programs, empowering the next generation of tech leaders to build an Internet that creates opportunity and serves the public interest. In addition, she was seconded to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization from 2013 to 2014 to contribute to the development of its digital agenda.

Constance has served on numerous high-level committees, including the World Economic Forum’s Internet for All Steering Committee and the U.N. Secretary-General’s Multistakeholder Advisory Group for the Internet Governance Forum. She holds a master’s degree in law from the Paris-Panthéon-Assas University, a postgraduate degree in EU politics from Sciences Po, a management diploma from the London School of Economics, and a certificate from the Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires’ International Directors Program.

Having grown up in the United States and lived in Switzerland, she is now based in Paris with her husband and their three children. Constance was nominated to serve on the ICANN Board by the Nominating Committee in 2025. Her term will expire at the Annual General Meeting in 2028.

Greg DiBiase is an attorney specializing in domain name industry issues. For the last nine years, Greg has served as senior corporate counsel for Amazon, where he helped build out Amazon Web Services’ domain registrar and helps to manage Amazon’s portfolio of internally-owned domain names. Before that, Greg served as a compliance manager for the Endurance family of registrars (now operated by Newfold Digital) and ICANN. Before going to law school, Greg sold billboards in Los Angeles.

Greg has been involved in ICANN policymaking since 2012. He has held several roles within ICANN’s Registrar Stakeholder Group and spent six years as the registrar representative on the Generic Names Support Organization (GNSO) Council. Most recently, he served as Chair of the GNSO Council, leading the management of ICANN’s policy development process.

Greg was selected in 2025 to serve on the ICANN Board of Directors as ICANN’s Contracted Parties House representative for a three-year term. His term will expire at the Annual General Meeting 2028.

Dr. James Galvin has over three decades of experience in secure and robust operations in all aspects of networking and the life cycle of a domain name. He currently serves as Identity Digital, Inc. Director of Strategic Relationships, applying this experience to the development of technical standards and policies in support of strategic initiatives to advance secure and robust operations. James began his career in 1989 developing Internet Standards in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for secure email, secure network management, and DNS security, which are still applicable and in use today. He continues to be an active participant in the IETF where he currently serves as Co-Chair of the Registration Extensions Protocols Working Group, the working group currently responsible for all Internet Standards related to the operation of domain name registration services and the protocol interactions between registries and registrars. He has been part of ICANN’s Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) since 2002, and served as its Vice Chair for seven years until December 2017. He has served the ICANN community as chair of various technical expert working groups and has engaged in multiple PDPs. He is currently active in the Registry Stakeholder Group DNS Abuse Working Group, the contracted party’s technical operations working group (CPH TechOps), and the CPH RDAP working group. James is a Pioneering Member of the Internet Society, and served as its Vice President of Chapters and Individuals from 2002 until 2005. He has been a member of both the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) since the early 1980s. James was appointed to serve as the SSAC’s non-voting liaison to the ICANN Board on 28 October 2021.

Wes Hardaker is a Senior Computer Scientist at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute and is responsible for overseeing teams to develop and execute research ideas. He is principally responsible for the operation and management of the Internet’s Internet’s b.root-servers.net [b.root-servers.net] domain name system critical infrastructure.  His research focuses on enhancing the DNS, network management, routing and other Internet protocols, and studying malicious actor behaviors through intrusion detection. Wes has been actively participating in the Internet Engineering Task Force open standards body that documents Internet protocols for roughly 25 years, and he currently sits on the Internet Architecture Board. Within ICANN, Wes is the principal representative for b.root-servers.net [b.root-servers.net] in the Root Server System Advisory Committee.

Wes was appointed to serve as the RSSAC’s non-voting liaison to the ICANN Board beginning in September 2022.

Tripti Sinha is the President and CEO of Internet2, where she champions the organization’s core mission of enabling U.S. higher education and research institutions to collaborate on mission-critical technology services and emerging technologies. Internet2 also works with global National Research and Education Networks (NRENs). Sinha has over three decades of progressive experience in Internet and Cyber-Infrastructure technologies. Her experience spans leadership roles in engineering, operations, finance, governance, advocacy, and policy.

Before joining Internet2, Tripti held two leadership roles at the University of Maryland: Assistant Vice President and Chief Technology Officer and Executive Director of the Mid-Atlantic Crossroads (MAX), a regional research and education network. In these roles, she supported advanced, high-performance networking and research technologies, including GPU compute infrastructure optimized for AI workloads and investigating evolving quantum networking technologies.

She has served on many non-profit and private sector technology advisory boards, and was past Chair of The Quilt’s Board of Directors and former Co-Chair of ICANN’s Root Server System Advisory Committee.

Tripti has a Computer Science degree from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts and did graduate work in Computer Science at the University of Maryland. She holds executive education certificates from Harvard Kennedy School in Public Leadership and Policy, and in Global Innovation and Execution from Stanford University. She was born in India and lives in the United States. As a child and young adult, Tripti moved back-and-forth between the U.S. and India which gave her an appreciation for global pluralism. She is proficient in English and Hindi, and understands Punjabi, Urdu and the ancient Sanskrit language. Sinha has a keen interest in Information and Communication Technology innovation, entrepreneurship, governance and policy, and international affairs.

Tripti was nominated to serve on the ICANN Board of Directors by the Nominating Committee in 2018. Her term will expire at the Annual General Meeting 2027.