Nominating Committee
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The ICANN Nominating Committee (NomCom) is in charge of selecting all ICANN officers except the Director, and those positions selected by other Supporting Organizations and Advisory Committees, as set forth by ICANN's Bylaws. The NomCom is designed to operate independently from the Board, the Supporting Organizations, and Advisory Committees, and members of the NomCom are to act purely on behalf of the interests of the global Internet community as a whole. [1]
Members
The NomCom is made up of:
- A non-voting Chair, appointed by the ICANN Board;
- A non-voting Associate Chair, who is appointed by the Chair to help carry out the Chair's duties. The Associate Chair may not serve in place of the Chair under any circumstances, and may not otherwise be a member of the NomCom.
- The immediately previous NomCom Chair, as a non-voting advisor;
- A non-voting liaison appointed by the RSSAC;
- A non-voting liaison appointed by the SSAC;
- A non-voting liaison appointed by the GAC;
- Five voting delegates selected by ALAC;
- Two voting delegates, one representing small business users and one representing large business users, selected by the Business Users Constituency of the GNSO;
- One voting delegate from the gTLD Registry Constituency of the GNSO;
- One voting delegate from the gTLD Registrars Constituency of the GNSO;
- One voting delegate from the ISP Constituency of the GNSO;
- One voting delegate from the Intellectual Property Constituency of the GNSO;
- One voting delegate from the consumer and civil society groups, selected by the Non-commercial Users Constituency of the GNSO;
- One voting delegate from the ccNSO;
- One voting delegate from the Council of the Address Supporting Organization;
- One voting delegate from an entity designated by the Board to represent academic organizations;
- One voting delegate from the Internet Engineering Task Force;
- One voting delegate from the ICANN Technical Liaison Group;[2]
Members of the NomCom Board of Directors (the non-voting members) each serve a term of 3 years. Members appointed from ALAC and the GNSO each serve a term of 2 years. Members from the ccNSO serve a term of 3 years.[3] The Associate Chair may be appointed or removed from position at any point by the Chair.[4]
Current Members[5]
Non-Voting Members
- Adam Peake, Chair
- Jacqueline Morris, Associate Chair
- Wolfgang Kleinwaechter, Advisor (previous Chair)
- Joao Damas,RSSAC Representative
- Vanda Scartezini, SSAC Representative
Voting Members
- Yaovi Atohoun, ALAC Representative (Africa Region)
- Eduardo Diaz, ALAC Representative (North America Region)
- Yrjö Länsipuro, ALAC Representative (Europe Region)
- Jose Ovidio Salgueiro, ALAC Representative (Latin America/Caribbean Region)
- Dr. V.C. Vivekanandan, ALAC Representative (Asia/Australia/Pacific Region)
- Mike Roberts, Commercial and Business Users Constituency (Small)
- Chris Martin, Commercial and Business Users Constituency (Large)
- Michael Palage, Registries Stakeholder Group
- Rob Hall, Registrars Stakeholder Group
- Tony Holmes, ISP Constituency Representative
- Mark Partridge, Intellectual Property Constituency
- Maria Farrell, Non-Commercial Users Constituency
- Giovanni Seppia, ccNSO
- Wilfried Woeber, Address Supporting Organization Advisory Committee
- Henk Uijterwaal, IAB for IETF
- Phil Davidson, Technical Liaison Group (ITU-T Rep)