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'''Alejandro Pisanty''' is involved in numerous aspects of [[Internet governance]], which currently include but are not limited to:<ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/biog/pisanty.htm ICANN.org bio]</ref><ref name="linkedin">[http://mx.linkedin.com/in/pisanty Alejandro Pisanty, LinkedIn.com. Updated 2015 June 8.]</ref>

* Professor of Internet and Internet Society at [[UNAM]]
* Member of the Advisory Council for [[NIC Mexico]]
* Member of Alfa-Redi
* Founding Chair and Member of the Board of Corporacion Universitaria para el Desarrollo de Internet - Internet2 in Mexico (CUDI)
* Member of [[ISOC]]

He has contributed knowledge towards areas such as virtual reality, digital signatures and online elections.<ref>[http://www.isoc.org/isoc/general/trustees/board.php?id=70 ISOC.org Trustees]</ref>

== Education ==
* From 1984 to 1986 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung in Stuttgart in Germany.
* He completed Bachelors in Chemistry from [[UNAM]] and M.Sc and Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the same university.<ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/biog/pisanty.htm ICANN.org bio]</ref>

== Career History ==
* From 1995 to 1997 he was the Coordinator of the Distance Education Project at [[UNAM]].
* He was the Technical Secretary of the Computing Advisory Council from 1991 to 1997 at [[UNAM]]
* He served as Head of Graduate School in Chemistry from 1993 to 1995 at the same institute.
* [[DNSO]] selected Alejandro Pisanty for the [[ICANN Board]]. He was first select in 1999 and his term ended in 2003, after which DNSO again selected him for another term, which ended in 2006.<ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/biog/pisanty.htm ICANN.org bio]</ref>
* He was one of the founders of Non-Commercial Domain Name Holders Constituency (now the [[NCUC]]) of [[ICANN]].<ref>[http://www.isoc.org/isoc/general/trustees/board.php?id=70 ISOC Trustees]</ref>
* He has also served as the chairman of [[ISOC Mexico]].
* He is a Trustee on the board of [[ISOC Mexico]]. 
* He led a campaign known as the InternetNecesario in 2009. The campaign was about adjusting tax laws regarding internet in Mexico.<ref>[http://cpe.ucsd.edu/fellows/upcoming-fellows/alejandro-pisanty.htm cpe.ucsd.edu fellows]</ref>
*He is a local node of wiwiw.org in Mexico.<ref>[http://wiwiw.org/credits.htm wiwiw.org credits]</ref>

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