[ALAC] Consumer Safeguards Director - hired!

[Alan Greenberg]

I am trying to arrange for him to meet the ALAC 
and Regional Leaders in Johannesburg.

Alan

At 23/05/2017 03:53 PM, Rinalia Abdul Rahim wrote:

>All I can say is that it is about time...
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><https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2017-05-23-en>https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2017-05-23-en
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>Rinalia
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>ICANN Hires First Consumer Safeguards Director
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>LOS ANGELES – 23 May 2017 – ICANNannounced today 
>that Bryan Schilling will be joining as the 
>organization's first Consumer Safeguards 
>Director, reporting directly to Jamie Hedlund, 
>SVP Contractual Compliance and Consumer 
>Safeguards. Bryan brings over 15 years of 
>international law and government affairs 
>experience to ICANN, the majority of which is 
>derived from working on data privacy and 
>technology issues in the global law enforcement and security space.
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>Speaking about the role, Schilling commented, 
>"Over the years, I've developed a passion for 
>finding ways to balance the competing rights and 
>needs of individual users, businesses, 
>intellectual property owners and law enforcement."
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>He went on to add, "I'm excited to bring that 
>passion to Jamie's team and to the 
>ICANNcommunity to raise awareness of ICANN's 
>current safeguards, facilitate discussion across 
>stakeholders concerning additional ways ICANN 
>could potentially improve its safeguard 
>mechanisms and help the community formulate 
>other collaborative means to address illegal, 
>infringing, and abusive activity impacting the DNS."
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>A wide array of strong, experienced candidates 
>applied for the role, but Schilling stood out 
>due to his work on Internet public policy issues 
>with industry, civil society and government. 
>"Bryan's experience, energy and passion are a 
>great addition to ICANN," said Hedlund. "He will 
>hit the ground running, meeting with 
>stakeholders in Johannesburg and afterwards to 
>catalyze the community discussion on consumer 
>safeguards. Bryan will apply his strong 
>analytical and engagement skills to facilitate 
>community dialogue on the efficacy of existing 
>consumer safeguards, potential enhancements, 
>limits on ICANN's authority and expertise, and 
>voluntary initiatives to combat abuse."
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>For several years, Bryan served as an Assistant 
>General Counsel with the United States' Federal 
>Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) Office of 
>General Counsel. Working in the agency's 
>National Security Law Branch, he collaborated 
>with U.S. and international law enforcement 
>officers, prosecutors and analysts on 
>cross-border terrorism matters. He also provided 
>legal support to criminal and cyber 
>investigations including matters impacting the 
>Internet and the Domain NameSystem.
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>After the FBI, Bryan went on to work for global 
>technology and manufacturing companies, 
>including Microsoft and Google. In those roles, 
>he worked with his colleagues, non-governmental 
>organizations, industry counterparts and 
>government agencies on cross-border regulatory 
>compliance matters, cybersecurity, privacy, 
>transparency, and legal issues surrounding government access to user data.
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>Bryan began his legal career in private practice 
>in Washington, D.C. and he is a graduate of the 
>George Washington University School of Law and 
>the University of Cincinnati's College of Arts and Sciences.
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>Bryan will work out of ICANN's Los Angeles office starting 1 June 2017.
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>Details
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