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Governance Documents

View governance policies and practices developed by the ICANN Board to fulfill its responsibilities to ICANN and its stakeholders.

ICANN Officer and Board Member Statements of Interest Summary relating to ICANN matters (in alphabetical order)¹

Officers:

  1. Xavier Calvez – SVP, Planning and Chief Financial Officer – Nothing identified.
  2. John Crain – SVP and Chief Technology Officer – Nothing identified.
  3. John Jeffrey – General Counsel and Secretary – Nothing Identified.
  4. Kurt Erik Johannes Lindqvist: Owner of Internet Technology Advisors.  (Also listed as Board member below.)
  5. Theresa Swinehart – SVP, Global Domains and STragtey – Nothing Identified.

Board Members:

  1. Catherine Adeya – Independent Non-Executive Director: UH Kenya (AI Advisory).
  2. Alan Barrett – Director: Nothing identified.
  3. Chris Buckridge – Director: Owner of Buckridge Consultants, independent consulting entity working with clients including the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise (GFCE) (through 30 June 2025).
  4. Nicolas Caballero – GAC Liaison: ICT Advisor, MITIC Paraguay (ICT Ministry); GAC Representative, Paraguay; President of CEILAC Paraguay; Board Member of Internet Society Paraguay.
  5. Constance de Leusse – Director: Executive Director for AI and Society Institute, University of École Normale SupérieureNS; Senior Advisor, Tech and Global Affairs Innovation Hub, University of Sciences Po Paris.
  6. Sarah Deutsch – Director: Director for Electronic Frontier Foundation; on Internet Committee of International Trademark Association; a sole practitioner attorney working part time re: on IP and Internet liability issue for clients that may operate new gTLDs but has not been involved in those clients' gTLD issues; Director of Edgemoor Research Institute.
  7. Greg DiBiase – Director: Senior Corporate Counsel for Amazon; formerly employed as compliance manager for Endurance family of registrars (now operated by Newfold Digital); sister-in-law employed as IANA Operations Manager.
  8. Raúl Echeberría – Director: Executive Director of Latinamerican Internet Association (ALAI); Board member of Internet Society Uruguay; member of Internet Governance Forum Multistakeholder Advisory Group; son works for LACNIC.
  9. James Galvin – SSAC Liaison: Director, Strategic Relationships for Identity Digital, Inc., the parent of registry operators of numerous TLDs that are under contract with ICANN, and which acquired his former employer, Afilias USA, in late 2020; actively engaged in technical standards development in the Internet Engineering Task Force; Akram Atallah (former ICANN executive and current CEO of Donuts/Identity Digital) and Ram Mohan (former ICANN Board member) are executives at Afilias (owned by/related to Donuts/Identity Digital); DotAsia Organisation, of which former Board member Edmon Chung is the Chief Executive Officer and Board Director, contracts with Identity Digital to provide backend registry services; DotAsia and Afilias/Identity Digital have a stake in Global Website Asia Ltd. and Global Website TLD Asia Ltd; Jake Fellow at Edgemoor Research Institute providing technical advice.
  10. Wes Hardaker – RSSAC Liaison: Internet Standards Engineer for Google, LLC; affiliate researcher (uncompensated position) for the University of Southern California; formerly employed as Senior Computer Scientist for the University of Southern California’s Information Sciences Institute; Owner of Frosted Axe Studios.
  11. Byron Holland – Director: Chief Executive Officer of Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA), a ccTLD and EBERO service provider for ICANN.
  12. Christian Kaufmann - Director: VP Technology for Akamai Technologies; Board member of Tor Project; David Lawrence, IETF Liaison to the the Board was formerly employed as a senior developer and architect for Akamai Technologies
  13. David Lawrence – IETF Liaison: Software engineering architect at Salesforce; Co-chair of “add” working group of IETF; formerly employed as senior developer and architect for Akamai Technologies; Board Director Christian Kaufmann is the VP Technology of Akamai Technologies; Board member of NEKCV; former Board member of DNS-OARC.
  14. Kurt Erik Johannes Lindqvist – Director: Owner of Internet Technology Advisors.
  15. Patricio Poblete – Director: Director (CEO) of NIC Chile, the ccTLD manager for .CL. NIC Chile is a center of the Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences of the University of Chile; NIC Chile makes an annual voluntary contribution to ICANN in accordance with ccNSO guidelines; daughter works as Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon Ads Management.
  16. Sajid Rahman – Director: Nothing identified.
  17. León Felipe Sánchez Ambia – Director: Board member of TrustNet de México, which is an IT vendor.
  18. Miriam Sapiro – Director: Nothing identified.
  19. Amitabh Singhal – Director: Promoter Director at Telxess Consulting Services Pvt. Ltd., a telecom/Internet/IT consulting service; spouse is also a Director at Telxess Consulting Services; Board member of Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF); Strategic Advisory Committee member of Common Good Cyber Fund, which is an initiative of Internet Society, ISOC Foundation and others.
  20. Tripti Sinha – Director (Chair): President and CEO of Internet2; formerly Assistant Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, as well as Executive Director, Mid-Atlantic Crossroads, at University of Maryland and responsible for operations of DNS root services (d-root); Director and former Chair of Quilt, Inc., an Internet and cyber infrastructure for US research and education.

1 Note that the activities of ICANN itself are not listed in this document, which is intended to include items of interest covering the past 12 months through the present.