Glenn McKnight, NOMCOM Rep

My final report for this year's NOMCOM 2020 as the NARALO rep.

We recently successful selected all of the seven positions for ICANN NOMCOM in very unique and challenging circumstances. The entire team of fourteen voting members, leadership team of three and the ICANN staff spent six days straight for eight hours a day mulling over in detail the submitted materials and we conducted almost one hour interviews with the Board and the PTI Board candidates. No interviews for the ALAC, CNSO and GNSO. All done remotely using ZOOM. A first for ICANN NOMCOM. Special shout out to Gregory Shatan as the incoming ALAC member and congrats to Javier Rua as the new CcNSO member

Hats off to those members from Asia who needed to be up very late for the calls. We strove for the highest level of fairness and transparency for the process

After six days of interviews, we did have another full day for the final selection meeting. We did reach agreement on the nomination for all the seven positions, as you can see below

ICANN Board of Directors

Sarah Deutsch
(North America)

Avri Doria
(North America)

Public Technical Identifiers (PTI) Board of Directors

James Gannon
(Europe)

At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC)

Pari Esfandiari
(Europe)

Gregory Shatan
(North America)

Country Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO) Council

Javier Rúa-Jovet
(North America)

Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Council

Olga Cavalli
(Latin America and the Caribbean Islands)

Those selected will begin their terms after the ICANN69 Virtual Annual General Meeting, which runs from 13-22 October 2020.

Profile of Applicants

The 2020 Nominating Committee received 96 applications from 65 women and 18 men (13 applicants chose not to disclose) during the application period from 18 December 2019 to 25 February 2020.

The regional breakdown of this year's applicants was:

• 22 from Africa

• 28 from Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands

• 7 from Europe

• 22 from Latin America and the Caribbean Islands

• 17 from North America

The Nominating Committee is charged with recruiting and selecting a portion of ICANN's leadership. In doing so, the Nominating Committee is mandated to ensure that ICANN's overall leadership is diverse in geography, culture, skills, experience, and perspective. Further, selectees should:

• Have integrity, objectivity, and sound judgment.

• Support decision-making within groups.

• Work effectively in English.

• Understand ICANN's mission.

• Be committed to ICANN's success.

• Have experience in world affairs.

• Contribute to cultural, professional, and geographic expertise.

• Be able to work long and hard, generally as volunteers.

To learn more about the Nominating Committee, visit: http://nomcom.icann.org/

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