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2020 Chapters Advisory Council Steering Committee

Members per Region

Eduardo Diaz (Puerto Rico Chapter)
Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
Position: Steering Committee Chair

Olivier Crépin-Leblond (UK England Chapter)
Region: Europe
Position: Steering Committee Vice Chair

Satish Babu (India Trivandrum Chapter)
Region: Asia-Pacific
Position: Steering Committee Secretary

Nabil Bukhalid (Lebanon Chapter)
Region: Middle East

Pierre-Jean Darres (Canada Québec Chapter)
Region: North America

Wadzanai Ndlovu (Zimbabwe Chapter)
Region: Africa

Non-geographical Members

Anabel Cisneros (Argentina Chapter)

Elaine Ford (Peru Chapter)

German M. Fajardo Muriel (Colombia Chapter)

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Satish Babu

Satish Babu is an active volunteer in multiple organizations including Internet Society, ICANN and IEEE, and has been a member of Internet Society since 2009. He is the founder-Chair of ISOC India Trivandrum Chapter and has been involved with the ChAC Steering Committee since 2018. He is currently the Chair of APRALO and APSIG. Satish is a co-founder of the the India School on Internet Governance, successfully bringing together…

…four Indian ISOC Chapters to organize the annual event for the last five editions.

He is an early user of the Internet and passionately believes in the need to maintain the Internet as a single, open, free, unfragmented communication medium and information repository that has the potential to improve the lives of billions of its users. More information on Satish.

Nabil Bukhalid

Nabil Bukhalid is the President of Internet Society Lebanon Chapter, an Internet evangelist and Internet Hall of Fame inductee. Nabil is currently consulting in areas including Internet infrastructure and services, economic and social development utilizing technology, open data and the Internet, datacenters and cloud services, higher education networks, project management, Internet governance and intersection of Internet policy and technology. He…

…has lead technology efforts focused on Internet infrastructure, governance and socio-economic impact.

Nabil has made significant contributions to the introduction and development of the Internet in Lebanon. He has served since 1993 as the .LB Administrator and Registrar.

Nabil is also the co-founder of the Lebanese Broadband Manifesto Support Group and BeirutIX. He is also a co-founder and president of the Internet Society Lebanon Chapter (ISOC-LB), co-founder and CEO of the Lebanese Internet Center (LINC), co-founder and vice-president of LebIX and advisory board member of the Lebanese Canadian Tech Hub.

He served for thirty years as the director of computing and networking services and chief enterprise architect at the American University of Beirut. Nabil attended AUB, where he earned both his BEE (1981) and EMBA (2006).

Wadzanai Chihombori Ndlovu

Wadzanai Ndlovu works at the intersection of Policy, Access to information and the Internet, an information scientist by profession. She works extensively with both civil society and public institutions, offering her input on policy development and implementation. Beyond Internet Society, Wadzanai’s passion lies in bridging the digital divide and connecting the unconnected, especially the marginalized societies. Experience and interest…

…culminated in Wadzanai’s cogent input during the drafting of her native Zimbabwe’s ICT Policy, the Computer Crime and Cyber Security Bill. She is the Head of the Policy and Governance Desk of the Internet Society Zimbabwe Chapter (ISOC-ZW). She is passionate about seeing more young people, especially women and girls become beneficiaries of affordable and accessible Internet serving their development needs.

Olivier Crepin-Leblond

Olivier M.J. Crepin-Leblond is a French national and has been an Internet user since 1988. He received a B.Eng. Honours degree in Computer Systems and Electronics from Kings College, London, UK, in 1990, a Ph.D. in Digital Communications from Imperial College, London, UK, in 1997, and a Specialized Masters Degree in Competitive Intelligence and Knowledge Management from CERAM Business School in Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France, in 2007…

…Having founded Global Information Highway Ltd in 1995, he has been involved in many Internet projects, several of which enabled Internet connectivity in developing countries.

He was selected as Chairman of ICANN’s At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) in December 2010, renewed yearly for four continuous years, thus making him the longest serving ALAC Chair. Through serving the At-Large Community, he has gained a unique practical experience in an operational multi-stakeholder policy-making environment, finding and building consensus at grassroots level. He then moved to Vice-Chair in 2015 and is now Chair of the European At-Large Organisation (EURALO).

In December 2012 he was in the United Kingdom delegation at the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT-12) in Dubai.

In March 2013 he was selected to sit on the second ICANN Accountability and Transparency Review Team (ATRT2).

He attended NetMundial in April 2014, wearing both the hats of his ICANN Community but also as Facilitator of ICANN’s Cross Community Working Group on Internet Governance. He has also represented his community in Internet Governance Forums (IGFs) since 2010. In 2015 he also started involvement with working groups of the World Economic Forum (WEF).

Whilst Chairman of the English Chapter of the Internet Society (ISOC) since March 2012, he is also a Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC) affiliate since the early nineties. Full details

Pierre-Jean Darres

Pierre-Jean is a private advisor in international development, supporting organizations, governments and companies in their growth within and towards foreign markets. He advises on various industries and sectors, including Internet and related technologies and services. Pierre-Jean has been Treasurer and Secretary of the Internet Society Canada Québec Chapter since 2017. He is also part of the Beyond The Net Large…

…Grants selection committee, and the current Chair of the ChAC Steering Committee.

German M. Fajardo Muriel

German Fajardo Muriel is an Electrical Engineer and Telematics Specialist from the Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá Colombia), with a postgraduate degree in Management and Business Administration (MBA) from Northeastern University (Boston – USA). He has more than 29 years of professional experience in the telecommunications and ICT sector. Since 1991 he has been Member of the Institute of Electrical…

…and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and in 2014 we was recognized as IEEE Senior Member (the highest professional grade of the IEEE in recognition of his professional standing). Since 2011 he is Global Member of the Internet Society (ISOC) and Founder Member of the Internet Society Colombia Chapter, officially created in October 2018.

Currently, German is President at OhmTel Ltda and Chapters Advisory Council (ChAC) Steering Committee Member at Internet Society. Previously, he held technical, commercial and management positions in public, private owned and non-for profit companies. He has participated as Member of the Board of Directors of companies in the telecommunications sector (operators, research centers, services providers, Internet Society Colombia Chapter, among others), in the oil sector (distributors of products derived from oil and gas), as well as in Public-Private Partnerships (for the provision of telecommunications services, fiber optic deployment using energy infrastructure and operation of satellite services in the Andean Community).

During 2020 his contributions to the ChAC Steering Committee include the participation in the definition of the amending proposal of the ChAC Charter as well as of the ChAC Rules and Procedures, and he would like to contribute to the completion of this important process in order to be implemented during 2021. Curriculum Vitae

Elaine Ford

Elaine Ford is the director and founder of Democracy & Development International (D&D International) based in Lima, Peru. She is the director and creator of the Digital Democracy Program promoted by D&D International. President of the Internet Society (ISOC) Peru Chapter and Member of the Steering Committee of ISOC Chapters Advisory Council. Member of the Committee of Women Leaders of…

…the Americas. Professor of the Communications Faculty of the Peruvian University of Applied Sciences (UPC).

Master in International Studies of the University of Chile, approved with Maximum Distinction. Postgraduate Studies in International Human Rights Law of the University of Nottingham, England. Journalist of the Peruvian University of Applied Sciences (UPC). She has a Specialization in Collaborative Solutions and Innovation in Government at Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, United States.

She was invited by the German government to the Digitalization Program in the cities Berlin and Hannover (2018). She has won the Chevening Scholarships of the British Council and Fulbright. He has participated in the programs: International Visitors Program and Youth Leaders of the United States Department of State.

She obtained the “Woman Leader and International Entrepreneur Award” (ODM Peru, 2019), the “Iberoamerican Leading Woman 2018 Award” (Peru, 2018), “Young Leader Award” from the International Young Leaders Foundation (Argentina, 2010) and was designated “Distinguished Visitor” by the Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights, of the University of Cincinnati School of Law in Ohio (United States).

He permanently lectures on the topics of his specialty and publishes opinion articles in various newspapers in Peru and abroad.

Author of the book: “The challenge of digital democracy. Towards an interconnected citizenship” (2019), presented in the cities of Lima, Berlin and Santo Domingo.