Organizational Effectiveness Committee of the Board (OEC)

Chris Buckridge is an independent consultant, analyst, and commentator in the Internet governance and digital policy space. He worked for more than two decades with Regional Internet Registries, starting with the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre in 2003, before joining the Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC) in 2006. During his tenure at the RIPE NCC, he helped develop the organization's engagement in public policy and Internet governance, working closely with institutions including the International Telecommunication Union, the OECD, and the United Nations.

In 2015, Chris served a member of the Australian government delegation to the WSIS+10 review. Since 2016, he has served as a member of the EuroDIG Association Board, and has been actively engaged in national and regional Internet governance initiatives across the RIPE NCC service region (Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia) and beyond. In 2021, he was appointed to the Multistakeholder Advisory Group or MAG of the United Nations Internet Governance Forum, where he will complete his third and final one-year term in 2024. Chris holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Queensland in Australia.

Chris was selected in 2023 by the Generic Names Supporting Organization to serve a three-year term on the ICANN Board of Directors in 2023. His term will expire at the Annual General Meeting in 2026.

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.

Raúl Echeberría is a broadly recognized Uruguayan expert in Internet development, Internet governance, and digital policies. In the early 1990s, Raúl was one of the Internet pioneers in Uruguay and has since held many relevant roles in the local, regional, and global digital ecosystem. Since 2020, Raúl has been the Executive Director of ALAI, the LatinAmerican Internet Association. He previously worked as Vice President for Global Engagement at Internet Society. He was one of the founders of the Latin American and Caribbean Internet Addresses Registry (LACNIC) and was the CEO of LACNIC for 12 years. Raúl has also served in other important positions, including as a member of the Working Group on Internet Governance (2004–2005), a member of the Uruguayan delegation to the World Summit on the Information Society (2005), a member of the Internet Governance Forum Multistakeholder Advisory Group (2006– 2014 and 2024–2025), the Co-chair of the Executive Committee of NetMundial (2014) and co-chair of Netmundial+10, and a member of the steering committee of the IA Action Summit, France (2024–2025). He currently serves in several volunteer positions in the following organizations: CETIC.br, CETIS, Global Cyber Alliance, UNESCO, and the Internet Society-Uruguay. Raúl has been recognized with national and regional awards for his contributions to the development of the Internet and for his work in digital transformation both in Uruguay and Latin America, including the Trayectoria award presented by LACNIC. He was nominated to serve on the ICANN Board of Directors by the Nominating Committee in 2025. His term will expire at the Annual General Meeting in 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.