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Akinori Maemura is currently serving his second term as a member of the [[ICANN]] [[ICANN Board|Board of Directors]]. He works as General Manager of the Internet Development Department at [[JPNIC]], the not-for-profit Internet promotion body and National Internet Registry for Japan.
==ICANN Involvement==
Maemura was elected to the Executive Council of [[APNIC]] in 2000, then elected as the Council's Chair in 2003. He was seated in the Chair position until February 2016, and served as [[APNIC]]'s observer to the Executive Council of the [[NRO]]. For more than a decade, he was directly involved in the governance and strategy of the Internet Registry, representing the APNIC membership and broader community.
Maemura has been a regular participant in ICANN meetings since 2009 as a member of the [[ISPCP]] constituency of the [[GNSO]]. He was selected by the [[ASO]] to serve on the [[ICANN Board|Board of Directors]] at the [[Annual Meeting|Annual General Meeting]] in 2016, and again in 2019. His term will expire at the Annual General Meeting in 2022.
==ICANN Involvement==
Maemura was elected to the Executive Council of [[APNIC]] in 2000, then elected as the Council's Chair in 2003. He was seated in the Chair position until February 2016, and served as [[APNIC]]'s observer to the Executive Council of the [[NRO]]. For more than a decade, he was directly involved in the governance and strategy of the Internet Registry, representing the APNIC membership and broader community.
Maemura has been a regular participant in ICANN meetings since 2009 as a member of the [[ISPCP]] constituency of the [[GNSO]]. He was selected by the [[ASO]] to serve on the [[ICANN Board|Board of Directors]] at the [[Annual Meeting|Annual General Meeting]] in 2016, and again in 2019. His term will expire at the Annual General Meeting in 2022.