Here are biographies of those selected by the 2007 Nominating Committee:
ICANN Board of Directors
Harald Tveit Alvestrand (Norway, Europe)
Harald Alvestrand was born in Norway in 1959, and graduated from the
Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH) in 1984. He has worked for
Norsk Data, UNINETT (the university network of Norway), EDB Maxware,
Cisco Systems and, since 2006, for Google.
He has been active in Internet standardization via the Internet Engineering
Task Force (IETF) since 1991, and has written a number of RFCs, including
RFC 1766, the first standard for language tags in Internet protocols.
In the IETF, he has been an area director of the Applications area
(1995-1998) and of the Operations & Management area (1998-1999;
a member of the Internet Architecture Board (1999-2001), and served
as chair of the IETF from 2001 to 2006.
He was alternate chair of the ICANN DNSO General Assembly from December
1999 to April 2001, and was a member of the WIPO panel of experts on
the DNS in 1998-1999.
He is currently a board member of NORID, the .no domain name registry,
and of the Unicode Consortium.
He lives in Trondheim, Norway, is married, and has 3 children.
Dennis Jennings (Ireland/UK, Europe)
Dr. Dennis Jennings has a wide and varied career.
It has spanned venture capital, where he is the co-founder of 4th
Level Ventures (2002 to present) - an Irish Venture Capital company
whose primary objective is to invest in companies commercialising the
business opportunities that arise from university research in Ireland
(www.4lv.ie). He is also an “Angel” investor, investing in early stage
technology companies.
In terms of board membership, he is currently chairman and/or board
member of a small number of small technology companies, and has a wide
experience of the issues relating to the start-up, funding, supervision
and governance, and survival of early stage technology companies.
In regard to university/research IT management, Dr Jennings was the
director of University College Dublin (UCD – www.ucd.ie) Computing
Services from 1977 to 1999, where he was responsible for the university
IT infrastructure and a staff of over 90 people. He was interim President
of the Consortium for Scientific Computing at the John von Neumann
Centre (JvNC) in Princeton, New Jersey, responsible for the start-up
of the supercomputer centre (1986, on leave from UCD). He is currently
Chairman of the Oversight Board of the Irish Centre for High-End Computing
(ICHEC – www.ichec.ie).
He is also an Internet pioneer, having been responsible for the decisions
that created NSFNET (1985/86) - the network that became the Internet
- while working for the US Federal Government (on leave from UCD).
He was actively involved in the start-up of research networks in the
Europe (EARN - President; Ebone - Board member) and Ireland (HEAnet
- initial proposal and later Board member. www.heanet.ie). He chaired
the Board and General Assembly of the Council for European Top level
domain Registries (CENTR) from 1999 to early 2001 - www.centr.org -
and was actively involved in the start-up of the Internet Corporation
for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) - www.icann.org - during that
period.
Dr Jennings holds a 1st Class honours physics BSc degree from University
College Dublin (1967), and a PhD degree obtained for a search for high-energy
gamma radiation from pulsars (neutron stars) (1972). He is an opera
and classical music enthusiast, and is the chairman of the UCD Choral
Scholars Board of Management.
Jean-Jacques Subrenat (France, Europe)
Jean-Jacques Subrenat is Chairman of the Advisory Board of Institut
Pierre Werner in Luxembourg (2007~), a tutor at ENA (Ecole nationale
d’administration in Strasbroug, 2007~), an elected member of the board
of Lycée Vauban, the French school in Luxembourg (2006~).
His professional experience is wide-ranging: he was a volunteer in
the French Navy (1960-63), a scholarship student in Bordeaux and Paris
(1964-68), a researcher at the CNRS in Paris and Kyoto (Centre national
de la recherche scientifique, 1967-71), and in the French diplomatic
service (1972-2005). He was an Ambassador for ten consecutive years
(1995-2005).
He worked at the Ministry of foreign affairs in Paris, at the Policy
Planning Staff (1976-78), on secondment to the Ministry of industry
to help set up the Solar Energy Authority, as first Head of its department
of international affairs (1978-80), Diplomatic Adviser to the Minister
for Europe (1980-81), Deputy director for Asia and the Pacific (1984-86),
Alternate director for development aid (1986-88), Alternate director
for the Americas (1992-95).
He was posted in Singapore (Embassy Secretary 1973-76), in Japan (Counsellor
1981-84, Minister Counsellor & Deputy Head of mission 1988-92).
He was Ambassador, Permanent Representative to the Western European
Union (WEU in Brussels 1995-98), Ambassador to Estonia (1998-2002),
Ambassador to Finland (2002-05), Acting Governor for France at the
ASEF Board of Governors (2005).
Ambassador Subrenat has a doctor’s degree from the Sorbonne University
in Paris and various other degrees (Bordeaux, Paris, Osaka). He is
frequently invited as a speaker and writes articles on global trends,
current affairs, international relations, social matters. Edited a
book on Estonia; published a book on a major music festival in Finland.
He visited the USA as an individual guest of the International Visitor
Program (1986). He was awarded honorary distinctions by Estonia (2002),
Finland (2005), France (1982, 1994, 2005), Japan (1992), Thailand (1987).
He was born in 1940, and is remarried. He has four children.
GNSO Council
Avri Doria (USA, North America)
Avri Doria is an adjunct professor at Lule University of Technology
(LTU) in Sweden. She also works part time as a consultant to the IGF
Secretariat at the UN, as an independent consultant and as an associate
with Interisle consulting.
Ms. Doria, has been an Internet technologist involved in the development
of Internet protocols and architectures for over 25 years, an active
participant in the IETF, past chair of the IRTF Routing Research group,
and Senior Fellow and past Technical Committee Chair of the Multi Service
Forum She has also been active in Internet Governance for the past
5 years, is currently chair of the ICANN GNSO council, was an active
particpant in WSIS and post WSIS civil society, is a past chair of
the Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus and was a member of the
Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) . Ms Doria is a also a
member of the APC Women's Networking Support Program.
Her current projects include research into methods of bringing the
Internet into areas that are communication challenged and is working
with the semi-nomadic Sámi population of Sapmi (aka Lapland) to develop
an ICT infrastructure for the UNESCO heritage region of Laponia. Another
current project innvolves creating a graduate curriculum in Internet
Governance at LTU. Ms. Doria has one MA from the University of Chicago
in Philosophy and one from Rhode Island College in Counseling Psychology
and is allegedly trying to complete a trans disciplinary PhD dissertation
at Blekinge University of Technology in Sweden on the nature of the
relationship between technology and governance.
Olga Cavalli (Argentina, Latin America & Caribbean)
Olga Cavalli is a ICT and Internet specialist with large experience
in project management, market research, competitive analysis, public
policy and regulations. This experience has been developed in a multistakeholder
environment.
Ms. Cavalli is a professor at Universidad de Buenos Aires, at the
Instituto Tecnológico Buenos Aires and at the Diplomacy Career of the
Ministry of Foreing Affairs of Argentina. In these institutions she
teaches subjects related with technology and public policy. She is
also an invited teacher and speaker to several other institutions from
Argentina and other countries. Ms. Cavalli is a member of the Advisory
Group for the Internet Governance Forum.
As an advisor of the Ministry of Foreing Affairs of Argentina, she
has represented Argentina in the WSIS Second Phase held in Tunis, also
in the GAC of ICANN (Governmental Advisor Committee). She is also involved
in activities in the ccNSO of ICANN and in LAC TLD. Ms. Cavalli is
the argentine focal point for the eLAC 2007 Regional Information Society
Plan of Action, she is the coordinator of the Internet Governance Group
in eLAC 2007 and was former coordinator of the Financing eLAC 207 working
group. She has also been responsible for evaluating the argentine export
offer in technology and for advising the Ministry in technology trends
and public policy related with technology.
She has published papers and articles in many magazines and newspapers
from Argentina and South America, about Internet, telecommunications
and IT regulations and market. In the private sector she has worked
as a consultant for many companies and non governmental organizations
from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Venezuela, USA, Canada and
Germany.
Graduated as Electronic and Electric Engineer at Universidad de Mendoza,
she has completed her background with and MBA at the Universidad del
CEMA and a Masters Degree in Telecommunication Regulation at Universidad
de Buenos Aires. Today she is a PHD Candidate at the PHD in Business
Administration program at the Universidad del CEMA.
She is fluent in English, German and Portuguese, and she can read
and understand Italian and French. She is a member of the Argentine
Chapter of Internet Society (ISOC) and she is a Certified Engineer
at the Consejo de Profesionales de Ingeniería Electrónica of Argentina,
COPITEC. She is the mother of Juana (12) and Federico (18).
At-Large Advisory Committee
Vanda Scartezini (Brazil, Latin America & Caribbean)
Vanda Scartezini is an Electronics Engineer and a Brazilian citizen,
and graduated from college in 1970. Since then she has held many management
positions with private technology companies and public institutions.
She is the co-founder of and has been an active partner in Polo Consultores,
a Brazilian IT consulting company, since 1985. She also acts as President
of Altis, a Software & Service outsourcing company, www.altis.org.br,
and as chair of the board of FITEC, an ICT R&D foundation www.fitec.org.br.
She is also an associate partner of Getulio Vargas Foundation Projects
(www.fgvprojetos.fgv.br) and member of the board of ABES, the Brazilian
Software Industry Association.
She has been working with the ICANN community since 2000 as a GAC
member until March 2004 and an ICANN Board member from 2004 until the
Los Angeles meeting.
She served as National Secretary of Industrial Technology and as National
Secretary of Information Technology in the Brazilian Federal Government.
She is also former President of the Brazilian Patent Office. From 2000
until March 2004 she was the Brazilian representative on the ICANN
Governmental Advisory Committee. She also served as GAC Vice Chair
until March 2004.
She has acted as Brazilian Government representative in many international
missions around the world as well as an expert and consultant for international
institutions. She was honored with many of the major prizes in the
Brazilian IT Industry. She is also honorable member of Abranet, the
IST Brazilian Association, and of the Brazilian Chamber of Electronic
Commerce. Among other ICT associations, she is also a member of WTN
– World Technology Network, www.wtn.net.
Fatimata Seye Sylla (Senegal, Africa)
Mrs Fatimata Seye Sylla is an MIT/ Media Lab Master of Science with
a first university degree from Le Havre University (France) in computer
Science. She has a post graduate management degree from the African
regional management school in Dakar (CESAG).
Fatimata has worked for ten years within the Senegalese government
and for nine years in the IT private sector in Senegal. Within the
Senegalese government, she has conducted the first national project
to introduce ICT in the educational system as a project manager.
She is the founding President of the NGO Bokk Jang 2B1-SN (www.bokk.org),
the Executing Agency for the USAID funded Program “Digital Freedom
Initiative” (DFI) and the OSIWA E-Riders project in Senegal (2003 –
2005) under her leadership.
As an international consultant, she has worked and conducted research
studies for Unesco, UNFPA, UNECA, ITU, USAID, UNDAW, FRANCOPHONIE,
IDRC and PANOS Institute, in the field of Information and Communication
Technologies use in Education, gender, media and development. She has
written several papers related to IT and development, some of them
are published. She was a Board Member of CATIA (Catalysing Access to
ICTs in Africa), a DFID program (2003 – 2006).
Among other activities, she is a Board member of OSIRIS (www.osiris.sn),
ISOC (www.isoc.sn) associations and of REGENTIC, a gender and ICT network
in Senegal. She is presently the National Coordinator of the African
Civil Society for the Information Society (ACSIS) in Senegal and a
Council Member of Free and Open Source Software Foundation for Africa
(FOSSFA).
Nguyen Thu Hue (Vietnam, Asia/Australia/Pacific)
Ms. Nguyen Thu Hue, born in November 1971 in Vietnam. Married with
two children, Hue Anh (10) and Hai Minh (1). Ms. Nguyen lives and works
in Hanoi, Vietnam.
She is the founder and director of the Center for Marinelife Conservation
and Community Development (MCD), a Vietnamese NGO. Prior to joining
MCD, Ms Nguyen worked as the Country Coordinator for International
Marinelife Alliance (IMA), an international NGO with headquarters in
the United States of America. Earlier, she held a position at the Hanoi
office of Baker & McKenzie, an international law firm. She has
diverse experience in working in cross-cultural environments, project
management and planning, and working with the business sector and local
communities.
Ms Nguyen has also worked on a number of international development
projects outside of MCD. From July 2003 to August 2005, she was country
coordinator for the Global Internet Policy Initiative (GIPI), an EU-funded
project on internet policy reform in Vietnam. She was also program
coordinator for the USAID funded project “Internet Training for Female
NGO Heads and Female journalists in Vietnam” where she worked with
Internews Network, a US based media organization. She has actively
participated in Internet governance in Vietnam.
Ms Nguyen has a Masters degree in International Business Administration
from the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in addition to a Degree
in Economic Law from Hanoi Open University. She also studied Internet
Law at Harvard Law School, USA, in 2004.
ccNSO Council
Nashwa Abdel-Baki (Egypt, Africa)
Nashwa Abdelbaki is an IT expert with over 20 years of experience
at the national, as well as regional and international level.
She is an early Internet pioneer, bringing Internet connectivity to
Egypt in the early 1990s. As part of this process, she helped build
Egypt's national networks both locally and regionally and took technical
lead of the Egyptian Universities Network (EUN). Academically, she
is a Doctor of Engineering in the field of multimedia networking from
Ulm University, Germany. Dr. Abdelbaki received an MSc from the Faculty
of Engineering, Ain Shams University and a BSc from the Faculty of
Engineering, Cairo University.
Nashwa Abdelbaki joined the Egyptian Supreme Council of Universities
directly from graduation as a systems engineer in the area of computer
systems and networking architecture. She was responsible for engineering
and development of system techniques and networking algorithms and
architecture that suited the heterogeneity of the Egyptian national
environment. This was accompanied with constructing, developing and
leading the qualified working groups and teams for introducing the
newly and locally developed concepts to the native community.
Based on experience gained earlier, her professional experience was
extended to the regional and international level to help with deploying
and developing the regional networking architecture - something that
involved bringing the know-how of networking infrastructure and media
connectivity to the local and regional domains of African, Arab and
developing areas.
From 1993 to 1999, she also led, managed, organized and helped with
teaching and educating a number of the international IT conferences
and networking workshops (e.g., ISOC/INET) that targeted the methodologies
and techniques to study, build, manage and maintain national networks.
She was one of the four that submitted the first proposal to establish
AfriNIC.
Dr. Abdelbaki has also worked as an IT consultant and expert on the
national and regional level for networking and IT deployment and maintenance.
This includes fund raising schemes, and budget management while opening
new domains of collaborative work within corresponding parties. Supported
by her German DAAD scholarship, from 2000 to 2005, she led a research
program in an academic project for the degree Doctor of Engineering
in Ulm University in Germany. This fruitful phase of her professional
life focussed on the future integrated multimedia networking architecture
and services, especially in the university environment, with emphasis
on synchronized adaptive interactive multimedia communication systems,
compression techniques, media simulation, QoS, MPLS, DiffServ...
Currently, Dr. Abdelbaki is Vice Executive Director, EUN, and advisor
for IT, Secretary General, Supreme Council of Universities (SCU).
