Thanks Harold. We do have gender balance in the ALT overall (or as much balance as you can have with 5 people) and that was one of my main targets. Although balance in the V-Cs would be good for optics, it does not really impact the decision process. V-Cs commit to a higher level of work, but all ALT members are treated equally in terms of discussion and decisions (when there are decisions, which is not that often). In this particular case, both Veronica and Holly had time constraints which prevented them from taking on the extra load, and I am just grateful that they accepted to ALT position at all. Veronica in particular has just taken on a new role at home, one that was not expected when she decided to take on the ALAC Member position, and I was worried it might impact her decision to accept the ALT role. And both Tijani and León have a great history of tireless work on behalf of At-Large and ICANN! Alan At 29/10/2016 11:29 PM, Harold Arcos wrote:

Great news, Chair and Colleagues!

All names does honor to their nominations. Only I miss gender balance. I consider very important the women opinion in function of leadership.

Congratulations to the big examples that are our Vice-Chairs.

Warm hug

H

On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 12:15 PM, Alan Greenberg <<mailto:alan.greenberg@mcgill.ca>alan.greenberg@mcgill.ca> wrote: Nominations for the 2016-17 ALT closed on 21 October 2016. Four nominations had been received, one per region:

AFRALO: Tijani Ben Jemaa APRALO: Holly Raiche EURALO: Veronica Cretu LACRALO: León Sanchez

All four have accepted the nomination. Our RoP call for the ALT to be determined by a consensus of the ALAC, and barring that by secret ballot. Given that only one person was nominated for each of the regions involved, I have to conclude that there was no support for any other candidate and I judge there is a consensus that Tijani, Holly, Veronica and León serve as the ALT for the forthcoming year.

I congratulate all four. I could not be more pleased with the team.

All four candidates were also nominated to be Vice-Chair. Veronica declined the nomination and all three others accepted. In my mind, all three are excellent Vice-Chair candidates who I would happy to have on my team.

Holly has indicated that although she is willing to serve, her preference is to focus on the At-Large Review as she would not have the time to do justice to both simultaneously. I will honor that and hereby name León Sanchez and Tijani Ben Jemaa as ALAC Vice-Chairs for the coming year.

Alan

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