Werner Staub

Organization:	CORE
Affiliation:	GNSO
Region:	Europe
Country:	Switzerland
Email:	werner [at] corenic.org
Has attended 30+ ICANN Meetings

Werner Staub is an Executive Committee Member of the CORE Internet Council of Registrars. He is also CORE's Coordinator of Permanent Secretariat.

Werner was a panelist at The IGF Workshop on City-TLD Governance and Best Practices, which was held in Vilnius, Lithuania on September 17, 2010. He has been a member of MINC.

Education

Mr. Staub holds a degree in Economics from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) at the University of Lausanne. He holds a postgraduate degree from HEC in Business Information Systems.

Career History

Staub is one of the founders of Axone Services & Development.

Werner started computing while working part-time during his student life. He was one the early users of the IBM PC. Before founding Axone, he worked at Credit Suisse, Capital Intelligence, and International Finance and Commodities Institute.

Publications

• GeoTLDs – Diversity, Multilingualism and Local Content, a compilation of his and Dirk Krischenowski's articles.
• Co-authored "Financial Domain Names - How the Internet Can Help the International Financial Industry Overcome Shortcomings in Trust and Transparency While Improving Speed and Efficiency"
• Co-authored "Internet for Financial Intermediaries & Securities - How to Construct a New Regulatory System within the Domain Name System"
• "Description of Financial Domain Name Projects - New Top-Level Domains for Specialized Financial Name Spaces"

Generic Names Supporting Organization. Develops and recommends to the Board substantive policies relating to generic top-level domains and other responsibilities set forth in the Bylaws (ICANN Bylaws).

Internet Governance Forum