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Peter Dengate Thrush founded and currently chairs the [[Liz Dengate Thrush Foundation]], a non-profit dedicated to Internet entrepreneurship and education in New Zealand.<ref>[http://www.ldtf.org.nz/index.html Liz Dengate Thrush Foundation Official Homepage]</ref> The foundation was created after a tragic car accident claimed the lives of Peter's father, brother, and wife; he was about to commence work at ICANN's 2006 conference in Morocco when he received the news.<ref>[http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10389342 NZHerald.co.nz]</ref>

Peter Dengate Thrush founded and currently chairs the [[Liz Dengate Thrush Foundation]], a non-profit dedicated to Internet entrepreneurship and education in New Zealand.<ref>[http://www.ldtf.org.nz/index.html Liz Dengate Thrush Foundation Official Homepage]</ref> The foundation was created after a tragic car accident claimed the lives of Peter's father, brother, and wife; he was about to commence work at ICANN's 2006 conference in Morocco when he received the news.<ref>[http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10389342 NZHerald.co.nz]</ref>

==Work with ICANN==

==Work with ICANN==

One of Thrush's earliest contributions was as a member of the [[Boston Working Group]], providing comments on drafts of [[ICANN]] bylaws in 1998.<ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/biog/thrush.htm Official ICANN Biography for Peter Dengate Thrush]</ref> In 1999, he was appointed to ICANN's Independent Review Advisory Committee ([[IRAC]]), where he worked on establishing principles of independent review for actions taken by ICANN's board. Mr. Thrush also contributed to the development of [[UDRP]] through working group participation, and was involved in creating the [[IPC|Intellectual Property Constituency]] while he was President of the New Zealand chapter of the [[AIIPI|International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property]] .

One of Thrush's earliest contributions was as a member of the [[Boston Working Group]], providing comments on drafts of [[ICANN]] bylaws in 1998.<ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/biog/thrush.htm Official ICANN Biography for Peter Dengate Thrush]</ref> In 1999, he was appointed to ICANN's Independent Review Advisory Committee ([[IRAC]]), where he worked on establishing principles of independent review for actions taken by ICANN's board. Mr. Thrush also contributed to the development of [[UDRP]] through working group participation, and was involved in creating the [[IPC|Intellectual Property Constituency]] while he was President of the New Zealand chapter of the [[AIPPI|International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property]] .

He was influential in establishing what would become the [[ccNSO]] through his work with national and international Internet policy development with New Zealand; he became a board member of that body in December, 2004. The ccNSO subsequently appointed him to the [[ICANN Board]] in 2005, he was elected as the Chairman of that board in 2007, and has gone on to be re-elected three times.<ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/biog/thrush.htm Official ICANN Biography for Peter Dengate Thrush]</ref>

He was influential in establishing what would become the [[ccNSO]] through his work with national and international Internet policy development with New Zealand; he became a board member of that body in December, 2004. The ccNSO subsequently appointed him to the [[ICANN Board]] in 2005, he was elected as the Chairman of that board in 2007, and has gone on to be re-elected three times.<ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/biog/thrush.htm Official ICANN Biography for Peter Dengate Thrush]</ref>