Welcome Matt . All the best in your new asignement. Im sure your presence will be very good for ALAC community. Carlos D Aguirre International Director Of AGEIA DENSI Enviado desde mi dispositivo inalámbrico BlackBerry® -----Original Message----- From: ICANN At-Large Staff <staff@atlarge.icann.org> Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:00:51 To: <alac-announce@atlarge-lists.icann.org>; <afri-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org>; <apac-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org>; <euro-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org>; <lac-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org>; <na-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org> Cc: <ocl@gih.com>; <staff@atlarge.icann.org>; <david.olive@icann.org> Subject: [LAC-Discuss] Newest Member of At-Large Support Staff - Matt Ashtiani Dear All,   Please see below an announcement from David Olive, ICANN Vice President for Policy Development, on the newest member of the At-Large staff:   **   Dear All,   I am very pleased to announce that Matt Ashtiani will be joining the Policy Team as the At-Large Coordination Officer. After a brief transition period, Matt will take on the full responsibilities of this position as part of the At-Large Secretariat providing support to the ALAC and At-Large community.    Matt joined ICANN as the Constituency Travel Coordinator in June 2009.   He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with a triple Bachelor of Arts in International Developmental Studies, Political Science, History and a minor in Middle Eastern/North African Studies.  After his undergraduate career Matt moved to Dublin, Ireland where he completed his Masters of Philosophy in International Peace Studies with a specialty in International Relations from Trinity College Dublin.    In addition to English, Matt speaks fluent Farsi and some Spanish.   Matt is based at ICANN's headquarters in Marina del Rey, California.   Matt can be reached directly at matt.ashtiani@icann.org   Regards, David Olive ICANN Vice President for Policy Development   **   At-Large staff wish to welcome Matt and very much look forward to working with him on supporting the At-Large community.   Regards, Heidi Ullrich, Seth Greene, Matt Ashtiani, Gisella Gruber-White, Marilyn Vernon ICANN At-Large Staff     _______________________________________________ LAC-Discuss mailing list LAC-Discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org https://atlarge-lists.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/lac-discuss Homepage for the region: http://www.lacralo.org Posting guidelines to ensure machine translations of emails sent to the list are more accurate: http://www.funredes.org/mistica/english/emec/method_emec/presentation.html#a...