On behalf of
Tijani Ben Jemaa, Chair of the Board Member Selection Process
Committee (BMSPC), we are announcing the final election result of
ICANN Board Director (Seat #15) selected by the At-Large Community.
After six months
of efforts, the At-Large Community has successfully concluded its
ICANN Board Director selection process on 27 February
2017. León Felipe Sánchez Ambía has been
selected by At-Large as the successor of Rinalia Abdul Rahm and
will begin his 3 year term as an ICANN Board Director at the end of
ICANN60 (3 November 2017).
The selection
process began in September 2016, with the formation
of two committees tasked with managing the timeline,
calling for and evaluating the candidates, and organizing the final
election.
Among the six
individuals who submitted Expressions of Interest for the position,
Alan Greenberg and León Felipe Sánchez Ambía were chosen as
the finalists. Before the election took place, the At-Large
Community enjoyed ample opportunities to ask questions to the
finalists verbally and in
writing in order to make an informed choice. At-Large
Structures also participated in the final election by directing the votes of Regional At-Large Organization Chairs.
Click here to review the result, as well as the detailed
information about the election process.
Please see below
the bio and photo of León Felipe Sánchez Ambía.
León Felipe
Sánchez Ambía is an intellectual property attorney graduated
from the the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). He
also has completed postgraduate studies on intellectual property at
the UNAM and on Internet Law at Harvard Law School.
Since 2006 he has
been partner at Fulton & Fulton, a law firm specialized in
intellectual property and IT law based in Mexico City, and is head
of the Intellectual Property division.
In 2008 he was
admitted as professor on Intellectual Property at the UNAM Law
School.
He is co-lead for
the Mexican chapter of Creative Commons and advisor to different
Government bodies that include the Digital Strategy Coordination
Office of the Mexican Presidency, the Special Commission on Digital
Agenda and IT of the Mexican House of Representatives and the
Science and Technology Commission of the Mexican
Senate.
He drafted the
Internet Users Rights Protection Act for Mexico and has been very
active on issues like Anti-Counterfeit Trade Agreement (ACTA), Stop
Online Privacy Act (SOPA), Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
(TPPA) and other local initiatives of the same kind, always
advocating to defend users’ and creators’ rights in order to
achieve a balance between regulation and freedom.
He currently
serves as the ALAC Vice-Chair in ICANN and Co-Chair of the CCWG on
Accountability where he has been deeply involved with the IANA
transition.
Heidi Ullrich,
Ariel Liang, and Yesim Nazlar
At-Large Board Member Selection Program Admin
Staff