Dear Jonathan, On 18/03/2015 15:04, Jonathan Robinson wrote:
All,
Following receipt of this communcation from Alan Greenberg, Chair of the At-Large Advisory Committee, I am able to report that by a unanimous vote of the ALAC, Olivier Crepin-Leblond has been selected as the ALAC Liaison to the GNSO Council.
This appointment is effective immediately and runs through to the end of the 2015 Annual General Meeting. Olivier replaces Cheryl Langdon-Orr who was unable to continue in post due to a technicality.
Thanks to Cheryl and welcome to Olivier.
Jonathan
Thank you very much for your warm welcome. It is really a pleasure to be given the opportunity to work with the GNSO Council and help bridge the relationship between the GNSO and the ALAC. I already know many Councillors but for those with whom I have not had the chance to interact, let me introduce myself. I have been an Internet user since 1988, a few days before the Internet was hit by its first virus/worm (RTM worm). An engineer by trade, I have a Bachelor of Engineering from King's College, London, a PhD (Reduction of Delay in Asynchronous Transfer Mode Networks) from Imperial College , London and a specialised Masters in Competitive Intelligence & Knowledge Management from SKEMA, Sophia Antipolis, France. I started a small company, Global Information Highway Ltd back in 1995 and have started dozens of other businesses since, consulting & selling some of them off. I have lived in Cannes, London, Toulouse and New York and now live between Cannes, London and Basel (Switzerland). My first ICANN meeting was in Paris, 2008 - I had refused to be directly involved in ICANN since its beginnings in 1998, having lived through the early years of the DNSO flame wars & direct Board elections débâcle and having been involved in the work of the Internet Ad-Hoc Committee (IAHC) which rivalled the ICANN proposals in 1997. At ICANN I have been on too many working groups than I can recall. Member of the STI CWG, DSSA CWG, Consumer Metrics CCI, CWG IANA, ALAC Chair from AGM 2010 to AGM 2014, now ALAC Vice Chair, ATRT2 in 2013, Co-Chair of the CCWG on Internet Governance, etc. I could have joined many of ICANN's Communities but went for the ALAC as I was an Internet end user before being an Internet techie, a business owner, consultant, academic (I lecture from time to time), etc. In 1990 I seriously considered building a portfolio of domain names but as a poor student, I opted for a healthy university social life. These days, with ICANN having eaten the majority of my time when I was ALAC Chair, I sustain myself mostly through trading stocks - and have listed any stock I hold that's somehow ICANN-related, in my SOI on https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=36211634 As if all of this was not enough I'm also the Chair of the UK England Chapter of the Internet Society, having been a member since circa 1993. etc. etc. more on http://www.gih.com/ocl.html if you are ever interested. You'll note one of my defaults already: I sometimes ramble on, so I'll stop here. I should have probably added that I am honoured to work with all of you and hope that we can all work together to prove that the multi-stakeholder model of Governance works. Kindest regards, Olivier -- Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD http://www.gih.com/ocl.html