Sophia Bekele

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President and CEO of CBS International. Sophia Bekele

Ms. Sophia Bekele was nominated to serve on ICANN's Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) policy board in 2005, under the term and Chairmanship of Dr. Vint Cerf, who is one of the founding father of the Internet and current Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google Corporation.

In this position, Ms. Bekele contributes to global policies that guide the development of the Internet. During her tenure, Sophia was very instrumental in initiating policy dialog over International Domain Names(IDNs)as well as the formation of a IDN working group to give focus on IDNs within ICANN. She was later on credited for championing the inclusion of the IDN community within this policy dialog. As a result, Ms. Bekele was also nominated to chair ICANN's International Domain Name (IDN's) Working Group. She was one of the co-authors of the IDN policy guidlines within ICANN. Additionally, Ms. Bekele has initiated the formation of the African grouping within ICANN, as well as initiated and leading the .Africa project.

Ms. Bekele holds an MBA in Management Information Systems (MIS) from Golden Gate University, San Francisco and a Bachelor of Science in Computer and Information Systems, at San Francisco State University. She is also a certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).


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