Peter Dengate Thrush / .nz

Peter is a former chair of InternetNZ, and is chairman of
its International Affairs Committee. He is a current board member of
APTLD (since June 2000) and its Chair. He has been active in
developing a role for the cctlds in relation to ICANN, serving as the
APTLD member of the ccTLD's international Administrative Committee, and on the Launching Group of the ccNSO.

He has been involved in internet governance since 1998, providing, as
part of the Boston Working group, critical input into the draft bylaws
before the incorporation of ICANN. He has served on a number of ICANN committees, including the Independent Review Advisory Committee and recently the cross constituency Working Group on the WSIS.

Peter was selected by the ccNSO Council as a director of ICANN on 18 January 2005, after a members' vote in December 2004.

Senior Vice Chair

Shariya Haniz Zulkifli / .my

Shariya Haniz Zulkifli (LLB, University of Bristol, UK; Middle Temple Inn) was a practising solicitor specialising in telecommunications law prior to joining MIMOS Berhad in 1997. She served as Regulatory and Legal Adviser to the JARING division, Malaysia¡¦s first Internet Service Provider. During this time, she was a major contributor in both the development of numerous pioneering communications legislations and the implementation of the relevant Acts objectives pursuant to their enactment. This covered a diverse range of Internet-related issues such as licensing, addresses, security, abuse, content, consumer, digital signatures and privacy.

Shariya is presently head of the MYNIC division. Her responsibilities include managing the policy, systems, registration and billing functions.

Shariya has been involved in APTLD since 1998 and was one of the principal drafters of the original constitution. She represents MYNIC in APTLD and ICANN meetings and other international forums.

Yumi Ohashi / .jp

Yumi Ohashi had been liaison in the international affairs field in JPNIC since 1997. Since after she moved to JPRS in 2001, she has taken advantage of the experience in JPNIC and served in developing the management framework of the .jp top-level domain among JPRS, JPNIC, ICANN, and the Government of Japan, which resulted in execution of the Sponsorship Agreement between JPRS and ICANN. In addition to the international liaison, she has been actively involved in policy making of registration services of .JP domain names.

Jaeyoun Kim / .kr

Jaeyoun Kim is a coordinator of international affairs at NIDA (National Internet Development Agency of Korea). He has been responsible for international affairs and .kr DNS & SRS operation at NIDA. He is also board member of the APTLD (Asia Pacific Top Level Domain Association) which represents country codes in the Asia Pacific region.

He is specialized in international Internet policies and technologies such as DNS, IP, NGN, etc. Especially, he is professional in Network Designing & Implementation with high-level experience.

He has been participating in ICANN ccNSO, ITU-T, APTLD, and other international symposiums as a representative of the .kr ccTLD. He also participated in the Second Phase of the WSIS and IGF preparation process as a delegate of the Korean government and played an important role in the Internet Governance Task Force Team of the Korean government.

He was also a senior technical consultant of the NIDA consortium for CORE++. He worked as a director and programmer for I.T. consulting firms that specialized in Internet social-ware development, systems integration, and e-commerce.

In addition, he has consecutively filled various posts in several NGOs as coordinator of international affairs and has a wide experience in international cooperation projects.

He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Loyola Schools, Ateneo de Manila University and M.S. degree in Electronic and Telecommunication at Kwangwoon University.

For over ten years he has held executive management positions and directorships in private and public companies in the U.K. and Australia. These companies have included those involved in mining, e-commerce and the Internet. 

He was appointed CEO of auDA in October 2000. auDA is the self regulatory body governing the .au domain space. On 1st July 2002 auDA introduced new domain name policy and competition in the supply of domain names in Australia.

He is currently a Board member of the apTLD and a member of the ICANN ccNSO Assistance Group.

Richard St. Clair / .nu

Ai-chin Lu / .tw

Ms Ai-Chin Lu was involved the formation of TWNIC and has served as the Acting Executive Director since the beginning of 2004. Prior to this appointment, she was the Director of .tw registry department, which she played a strategic role in composing and executing .tw registration policy guidelines, whereas she was also required to be responsible for the promotion and marketing plans . In March 2003, she was appointed as the Deputy Executive Director and supervised general administration of TWNIC and government/ public affairs related to the organization.

Prior to the establishment of TWNIC, Ms. Lu served as the Chief System Architect at the Ministry of Education and has over 10 years experiences in system management and design. She participated in the works of ICANN and APNIC from the early stage. Notably Ms. Lu devoted herself in the IDN development. She has been the key member of CDNC (Chinese Domain Name Consortium) and JET (Joint Engineering Task Force). Ms. Lu holds Master degree in Computer Science from University of Missouri-Rolla, and Bachelor degree in Political Science from National Taiwan University.