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2024 ICANN Nominating Committee

Open Positions | Leadership Positions | Board and Community Recommendations to NomCom | Timeline | Background | NomCom Delegates | Committee Documents

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An Update from the 2024 ICANN Nominating Committee

 

Open Positions

The 2024 NomCom will fill seven open leadership positions:

  • Three members of the ICANN Board of Directors
  • Two regional representatives to the At-Large ‭Advisory Committee‬ (‭ALAC‬) – one each from the region Europe; and the North America ‬‬‬‬region‬‬
  • One member of the Country Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO) Council
  • One member of the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Council
This is an infographic of The 2024 Open Leadership Positions to be selected by the 2024 NomCom: Three open positions serving three-year term for the ICANN Board of Directors. There are two open positions serving two-year term for ALAC, one position for North America, and one for Europe. Additionally, there is an Open position serving a three-year term for the ccNSO Council and lastly one open position serving a two-year term - Non-voting GNSO Council.

Leadership Positions Information

The following documents provide information (criteria and time commitment) about the ICANN Leadership Positions to be filled by the 2024 NomCom:

  • Job Descriptions and Open Leadership Positions 2024
  • Invitation for Candidates

Board and Community Recommendations to NomCom

  • ICANN Board: Guidance from the ICANN Board to the Nominating Committee Regarding Important Skills for Board Members
  • ALAC: NomCom Job Description for ALAC
  • ccNSO Council: Specific Requirements for the NomCom appointee to the ccNSO Council | ccNSO: NomCom Job Description for ccNSO
  • GNSO Council: NomCom Description for GNSO

Timeline

The 2024 Nominating Committee Timeline has 5 Phases: Phase 1: Planning Phase runs from October to December 2023, to include the NomCom Delegate Onboarding and forming NomCom Sub- Committees. Outreach Events are also Confirmed. Phase 2: Recruitment Phase running November to March 2024. Recruitment/and Perform Outreach. The Application Period opens January 2024 through March2024.Phase 3: Assessment phase, is conducted from March to June with Soft Dive Candidates during March through April, following Deep Dive Candidates from March to May. Reference Checks if needed, will be from April through June. Due diligence begins end of May thru June. Virtual Interviews with Shortlist Candidates in May. Phase 4: Selection Phase. Final Board candidates in-person interviews in June and all final selections completed during the ICANN Public meeting. The Selection/Announcement in September, Phase 5: The Reporting Phase that is completed October to November – consists of publication of year NomCom report and status, NomCom evaluations and candidate surveys.

Background

The Nominating Committee (NomCom) is an independent committee tasked with selecting eight members of the Board of Directors and other key positions, including some members of the ICANN Board of Directors and the Public Technical Identifiers (PTI) Board, as well as the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC), the Country Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO) Council, and the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Council. within ICANN's structure as are set forth in the Bylaws. (See Bylaws Article 8, Section 1.) The NomCom is designed to function independently from the Board, the Supporting Organizations, and Advisory Committees.

ICANN is a not-for-profit, public benefit corporation dedicated to preserving the operational security and stability of the Internet; promoting competition; achieving broad representation of global Internet communities; and supporting the development of policies appropriate to its mission through bottom-up, consensus-based processes.

The Bylaws also state that the NomCom shall adopt such operating procedures as it deems necessary, which shall be published on the ICANN website.

The NomCom is designed to function independently from the Board, the Supporting Organizations, and Advisory Committees. NomCom members act only on behalf of the interests of the global Internet community and within the scope of the ICANN mission and responsibilities assigned to it by the ICANN Bylaws.

Members contribute to the NomCom both their understanding of the broad interests of the Internet as a whole and their knowledge and experience of the concerns and interests of the Internet stakeholders that have appointed them. The challenge for the NomCom is to integrate these perspectives and derive consensus in its selections. Although appointed by Supporting Organizations and other ICANN bodies, individual NomCom members are not accountable to their appointing constituencies. Members are, of course, accountable for adherence to the Bylaws and for compliance with the rules and procedures established by the NomCom.

This is an infographic of an overview of the Nominating Committee Structure. The Nominating Committee (NomCom) is responsible for appointing a number of seats to the ICANN Board of Directors, PTI, ALAC, ccNSO, GNSO. The NomCom delegates act only on behalf of the interest of the global internet community and within the scope of ICANN mission and responsibility assigned by the ICANN bylaws. They Operate and consist of 15 voting delegates along with a number of nonvoting leaders, advisors, and delegates that currently serve 1 year term. And no more than 2 successive terms. Terms must elapse before they are eligible to serve again. A non-voting Chair, appointed by the Board; A non-voting Chair-Elect, appointed by the Board as a non-voting advisor; A non-voting liaison appointed by the Root Server System Advisory Committee A non-voting liaison appointed by the Security and Stability Advisory Committee A non-voting liaison appointed by the Governmental Advisory Committee. There are Five voting delegates selected by the At-Large Advisory Committee, Voting delegates to the Nominating Committee shall be selected from the Generic Names Supporting Organization: One delegate from the Registries Stakeholder Group, and One delegate from the Registrars Stakeholder Group. Two delegates from the Business Constituency, one representing small business users and one representing large business users; One delegate from the Internet Service Providers and Connectivity Providers Constituency One delegate from the Intellectual Property Constituency; and One delegate from consumer and civil society groups, selected by the Non-Commercial Users Constituency. One voting delegate each selected by the following entities: The Council of the Country Code Names Supporting Organization.

NomCom Delegates:

Committee Delegates: Lia Hernandez (ALAC-LAC), Pascal Bekono (GNSO-NCUC), Maureen Hilyard (ALAC-AP), Tom Barrett (GNSO-RrSG), Seun Ojedeji (ALAC-AF), Suzanne Woolf (IETF), Mia Brickhouse (GNSO-CBUC Large), Vivek Goyal (GNSO-CBUC Small), Alfredo Calderon-Serrano (ALAC-NA), Rao Naveed Bin Rais (RSSAC), Ron da Silva (ASO), Betty Fausta (ALAC-EUR), Sophie Mitchell (ccNSO), Robert Guerra (SSAC), Craig Schwartz (GNSO-RySG), Flip Petillion (GNSO-IPC), Santanu Acharya (GNSO-ISPCP).

Nominating Committee Delegates Biographies – Click here

Committee Documents

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