[Chapter-delegates] NEWS: Internet Society Elects New Chair; Seats New Board Members at Annual General Meeting

[Khaled Koubaa]

Congratulations to Gonzalofor his election as Chair of the Board.
Congratulations for all appointed and elected new members.

Khaled Koubaa
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2016-06-20 19:58 GMT+02:00 Wende Cover <cover at isoc.org>:

> Internet Society Elects New Chair; Seats New Board Members at Annual
> General Meeting
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> https://www.internetsociety.org/news/internet-society-elects-new-chair-seats-new-board-members-annual-general-meeting
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> [Washington, D.C. – June 20, 2016] – The Internet Society today announced
> that its Board of Trustees elected Gonzalo Camarillo as the new Chair
> during its Annual General Meeting 18-19 June, 2016. It also seated new
> Board members who will now serve a term of three years.  The Internet
> Society Board of Trustees is elected or appointed by Chapters, Organization
> Members, and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
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> Gonzalo Camarillo is head of Data/IT standardization at Ericsson, where he
> works at the office of the CTO. He is an active participant at the IETF
> where he chairs several working groups. In the past, he served in both the
> IESG and the IAB. Gonzalo holds an MBA from AEE (Aalto University Executive
> Education; Finland), a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Aalto University
> (Finland), and two MSc degrees in Electrical Engineering from KTH (Royal
> Institute of Technology; Sweden) and UPM (Universidad Politecnica de
> Madrid; Spain). As part of his PhD studies, he was a visitor researcher at
> Columbia University (USA).
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> “I look forward to working with the Board of Trustees through the next
> phase of the Internet Society’s evolution. The Board members, with their
> diverse backgrounds, bring a wealth of experience to guide the organization
> in its mission of bringing the benefits of a globally connected Internet to
> everyone, everywhere,” said Gonzalo Camarillo.
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> The Board expressed its appreciation to outgoing Chair Bob Hinden, who has
> served on the Board since 2010, and as Chair since 2013.  He is the Check
> Point Fellow at Check Point Software, and has been active in the IETF since
> 1985, and is the co-inventor of the IPv6 protocol. “It’s been an honor to
> be on the board and to serve as Chair. The Internet Society has come a long
> way in the past six years, and with the new Chair and continuing Board, I
> am confident it is well positioned for the future,” said Hinden.
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> The results of the 2016 Board elections are:
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> •Desiree Miloshevic was re-elected by Organization Members to a three-year
> term. She is Senior Public Policy and International Affairs Adviser at
> Afilias, a global leader in domain name registry services and has served as
> Special Advisor to the chair of the UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF)
> Advisory group since 2006.
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> •Harish Pillay was elected by Organization Members. He served as President
> of the Internet Society Singapore Chapter from 2013-2015 and is currently
> in charge of external engagements for the Chapter.  He works for Red Hat
> Asia Pacific where he is global head of Community Architecture and
> Leadership.
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> •Olga Cavalli, who was elected by Chapter members, is President of the
> Internet Society Argentina Chapter.  In 2007, she co-founded the South
> School on Internet Governance which has granted more than 1500 fellowships
> for Internet Governance training in eight countries throughout the Americas.
>
> •Richard Barnes was selected by the Internet Architecture Board as the
> Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) appointee to the Board of Trustees.
> He formerly served as Area Director for the Real-time Applications and
> Infrastructure area of the IETF and currently leads the Security and
> Privacy Engineering team at Mozilla.
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> The Board of Trustees also elected John Levine as the new Secretary.
> Levine replaces Scott Bradner, who is retiring after dedicating many years
> of service to the Internet Society.  He served on the Board of Trustees
> from 1993-1999 and has been Secretary since 2003.  The Board also
> re-elected Kathy Brown as President of the Internet Society and elected
> Sean Turner as Treasurer.
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> Along with Bob Hinden, there are two additional outgoing trustees:
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> •Narelle Clark served on the Board since 2010.  She is Deputy CEO of the
> Australian Communications Consumer Action Network and was president of the
> Internet Society Australia Chapter from 2011-2014.
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> •Jason Livingood served on the Board of Trustees since 2011, and is
> currently Vice President of Internet and Communications Engineering at
> Comcast Cable.
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> “The Internet Society extends its sincere appreciation to Bob Hinden,
> Narelle Clark and Jason Livingood for their valuable contributions and
> years of service,” added Camarillo. “In addition, we thank Scott Bradner
> for his steadfast commitment to the Board as a trustee in the
> organization’s early years and as Secretary for the past 13 years.”
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> The current members of the Internet Society Board of Trustees are:
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> •Walid Al-Saqaf, Software developer and postdoctoral researcher at
> Stockholm University
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> •Richard Barnes, Firefox Security Lead, Mozilla
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> •Gonzalo Camarillo, Head of Data/IT standardization at Ericsson
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> •Olga Cavalli, Co-founder and Academic Director, South School on Internet
> Governance
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> •Gihan Dias, Professor, University of Moratuwa
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> •Hans Peter Dittler, CEO of BRAINTEC Netzwerk-Consulting
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> •Hiroshi Esaki, Professor, the University of Tokyo
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> •John Levine, President of CAUCE North America
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> •Desiree Miloshevic, Senior Adviser, Public Policy and International
> Affairs, Afilias
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> •Alice Munyua, Founder of the Kenya ICT Action Network
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> •Harish Pillay, global head of Community Architecture and Leadership, Red
> Hat
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> •Sean Turner, Founder of sn3rd
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> •Kathy Brown, President and CEO of the Internet Society; serves as a
> non-voting Trustee
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> “The work of the Internet Society and its global community has never been
> more important,” said Kathy Brown, President and CEO of the Internet
> Society. “Our Board of Trustees plays a critical role in helping advance
> our mission and each member brings the experience and expertise needed to
> lead this organization into the future.”
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> The Internet Society Board provides strategic direction in support of the
> organization’s mission of preserving the open, global Internet.  More
> information, including biographical details of all Board members and
> details of the Board selection process, is available at
> https://www.internetsociety.org/who-we-are/board-trustees.
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>
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