Dear NPOC members, I would like to nominate Poncelet for Chair of NPOC. I have closely worked with him when I first joined as a member of the NPOC community and continued working with him when I was elected Chair of NPOC. Over the last years, Poncelet has acted in many capacities in the Executive Committee serving as NPOC Secretary, in charge of Membership and of Policy. He has also represented NPOC in the NCSG EXCOM twice. As part of the NPOC delegation, Poncelet attended the ICANN inter-sessional meeting in Los Angeles, was a member of the first ICANN Meeting Strategic working group that restructured ICANN meetings, and has also been active with the first ICANN African strategic working group. Poncelet serves on/has served on the following working groups: · NCSG PC · GNSO RPM WG · GNSO-new gtld-WG · GNSO -igo-ingo-crp · GNSO SSC Finally, he is a resource person for the West African Internet Governance Forum (www.waigf.org) and an adviser to the Gambian Government in ICANN GAC. His long-term experience within ICANN and the Internet Governance sphere, allowed him to build a solid knowledge of key processes and topics at stake, added to the fact that he is from a region that is under-represented within ICANN. For all of those reasons, I would like to propose the name of Poncelet for candidate to Chair of NPOC. I sincerely hope he accepts. Kind regards, Marie-laure Lemineur