[At-Large] León Felipe Sánchez Ambía Selected by the At-Large Community as the Next ICANN Board Director

Maureen Hilyard maureen.hilyard at gmail.com
Tue Feb 28 00:45:33 UTC 2017


Wholeheartedly agree with my colleagues. Congratulations to both Leon and
Alan for what you do and will continue to do for At-Large

Maureen

On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 2:31 PM, Kan Kaili <kankaili at gmail.com> wrote:

> My warmest congratulations to Leon!  Looking forward to working with you.
>
> As an equally qualified candidate, also glad to keep Alan as our Chair,
> leading ALAC thru this turbulent time.
>
> Kaili
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> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Program Admin <program-admin at atlarge.icann.org>
> *To:* at-large at atlarge-lists.icann.org
> *Sent:* Monday, February 27, 2017 10:34 PM
> *Subject:* [At-Large] León Felipe Sánchez Ambía Selected by the At-Large
> Community as the Next ICANN Board Director
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> 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.
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> 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).
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> The selection process began in September 2016, with the formation of two
> committees <https://community.icann.org/x/Vxi4Aw> tasked with managing
> the timeline, calling for and evaluating the candidates, and organizing the
> final election.
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> Among the six individuals who submitted Expressions of Interest for the
> position, Alan Greenberg and León Felipe Sánchez Ambía were chosen as the
> finalists <https://community.icann.org/x/N6bDAw>. Before the election
> took place, the At-Large Community enjoyed ample opportunities to ask
> questions to the finalists verbally <https://community.icann.org/x/-pXRAw>
>  and in writing <https://community.icann.org/x/ArXDAw> in order to make
> an informed choice. At-Large Structures also participated in the final
> election <https://community.icann.org/x/SbbDAw> by directing the votes of
> Regional At-Large Organization Chairs
> <https://community.icann.org/x/-ZfRAw>.
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> Click here <https://community.icann.org/x/SbbDAw> to review the result,
> as well as the detailed information about the election process.
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> Please see below the bio and photo of León Felipe Sánchez Ambía*. *
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> In 2008 he was admitted as professor on Intellectual Property at the UNAM
> Law School.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Heidi Ullrich, Ariel Liang, and Yesim Nazlar
> *At-Large Board Member Selection Program Admin Staff *
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