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In June, 2018, Maureen Hilyard was elected at the ICANN Panama meeting by the 15-member  At-Large Advisory Committee (/ALAC) of ICANN as their next Chair. She will formally take up her new role at the conclusion of the ICANN AGM in Barcelona, Spain, in October 2018, although informally, the start of more online meetings and more email and skype communications has already begun.   

In June, 2018, Maureen Hilyard was elected at the ICANN Panama meeting by the 15-member  At-Large Advisory Committee (/ALAC) of ICANN as their next Chair. She commenced her new role at the conclusion of the ICANN AGM in Barcelona, Spain, in October 2018, as well as the start of more online meetings and more emails, skype, and with the advent of COVID-19, zoom communications.   

Maureen is very honoured to be representing a developing country in the Pacific as the Chair of the section of ICANN that represents the interests of internet end-users around the world.   

Maureen is very honoured to be representing a developing country in the Pacific as the Chair of the section of ICANN that represents the interests of internet users around the world.   

Maureen is a project manager and consultant for development projects in the Cook Islands. She has a Master of Management through Massey University in New Zealand, although her former career was in Education in New Zealand. She worked for nearly 15 years as a Regional Advisor with the New Zealand Correspondence School facilitating distance learning for home-based students working with their teachers in the school in Wellington.  

Maureen is a project manager and consultant for development projects in the Cook Islands. She has a Master of Management through Massey University in New Zealand, although her former career was in Education in New Zealand. She worked for nearly 15 years as a Regional Advisor with the New Zealand Correspondence School facilitating distance learning for home-based students working with their teachers in the school in Wellington.