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2025 ICANN Nominating Committee

Open Positions | Leadership Positions | Board and Community Recommendations to NomCom | Timeline | About the NomCom | Getting to Know the NomCom | NomCom Delegates | Committee Documents

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Open Positions

The 2025 NomCom will fill ten (10) open leadership positions:

  • Three members of the ICANN Board of Directors
  • One member of the PTI Board of Directors
  • Three regional representatives to the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) – one each from the Africa region; the Asia, Australia and Pacific region, and the Latin America and Caribbean region
  • One member of the Country Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO) Council
  • Two members of the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Council
This is an infographic of The 2025 Open Leadership Positions to be selected by the 2025 NomCom: Three open positions serving a three-year term for the ICANN Board of Directors. One open position serving a three-year term for the PTI Board of Directors. There are three open positions serving a two-year term for ALAC, one position for Africa, and one for Asia, Australia, and Pacific Islands and one position for Latin America and the Caribbean. Additionally, there is an Open position serving a three-year term for the ccNSO Council and lastly two open positions serving a two-year term voting GNSO Council.

Leadership Positions Information and Job Descriptions

The following documents provide information (criteria and time commitment) about the ICANN Leadership Positions to be filled by the 2025 NomCom:

Invitation for Candidates

Job Descriptions and Open Leadership Positions 2025

Board and Community Recommendations to NomCom

Timeline

The 2024 Nominating Committee Timeline has 5 Phases: Phase 1: Planning Phase runs from October 2024 to December 2025, to include the NomCom Delegate Onboarding and forming NomCom Sub- Committees. Outreach Events are also Confirmed. Phase 2: Recruitment Phase running November 2024 to March 2025. Recruitment/and Perform Outreach. The Application Period opens January 2024 through March 2024.Phase 3: Assessment phase, is conducted from March to June with Soft Dive Candidates during March through April, following Deep Dive Candidates from March to May. Reference Checks if needed, will be from April through June. Due diligence begins end of May thru June. Virtual Interviews with Shortlist Candidates in May. Phase 4: Selection Phase. Final Board candidates in-person interviews in June and all final selections completed during the ICANN Public meeting. The Selection/Announcement in September, Phase 5: The Reporting Phase that is completed October to November – consists of publication of year NomCom report and status, NomCom evaluations and candidate surveys.

About the NomCom

The Nominating Committee (NomCom) is an independent committee tasked with selecting key ICANN leadership positions, including some members of the ICANN Board of Directors and the Public Technical Identifiers (PTI) Board, as well as the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC), the Country Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO) Council, and the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Council. The NomCom is designed to function independently from the Board, the Supporting Organizations, and Advisory Committees.

NomCom members act only on behalf of the interests of the global Internet community and within the scope of the ICANN mission and responsibilities assigned to it by the ICANN Bylaws.

Getting to Know the NomCom:

This is an infographic of an overview of the Nominating Committee Structure. The Nominating Committee (NomCom) is responsible for appointing a number of seats to the ICANN Board of Directors, PTI, ALAC, ccNSO, GNSO. The NomCom delegates act only on behalf of the interest of the global internet community and within the scope of ICANN mission and responsibility assigned by the ICANN bylaws. They Operate and consist of 15 voting delegates along with a number of nonvoting leaders, advisors, and delegates that currently serve 1 year term. And no more than 2 successive terms. Terms must elapse before they are eligible to serve again. A non-voting Chair, appointed by the Board; A non-voting Chair-Elect, appointed by the Board as a non-voting advisor; A non-voting liaison appointed by the Root Server System Advisory Committee A non-voting liaison appointed by the Security and Stability Advisory Committee A non-voting liaison appointed by the Governmental Advisory Committee. There are Five voting delegates selected by the At-Large Advisory Committee, Voting delegates to the Nominating Committee shall be selected from the Generic Names Supporting Organization: One delegate from the Registries Stakeholder Group, and One delegate from the Registrars Stakeholder Group. Two delegates from the Business Constituency, one representing small business users and one representing large business users; One delegate from the Internet Service Providers and Connectivity Providers Constituency One delegate from the Intellectual Property Constituency; and One delegate from consumer and civil society groups, selected by the Non-Commercial Users Constituency. One voting delegate each selected by the following entities: The Council of the Country Code Names Supporting Organization.

NomCom Delegates:

Nominating Committee Delegates Biographies – Click here

NomCom Evaluations

Reports

Committee Documents

* This information will be updated at a later date, no later than 14 January 2025. The ICANN Board: Guidance from the ICANN Board to the Nominating Committee Regarding Important Skills for Board Members information for the 2024 Board is available here for reference only and should not be considered a final representation of the details to be provided for 2025.

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