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<h1 class="sectionheader"><span style="padding:0 0 0 15px;font-size:2.5vw;">Resources</span></h1>
<h1 class="sectionheader"><span style="padding:0 0 0 15px;font-size:2.5vw;">Fadi Farewell</span></h1>
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On September 22, 2012, Fadi Chehade stepped into the role of President and CEO of ICANN, ushering in a “new season” of engagement, understanding, and cooperation for an organization facing the criticism of being too US-Centric. His diverse background and diplomatic prowess made him the perfect candidate to accomplish the ambitious goals of creating a truly global and operationally excellent ICANN. From the first time that Fadi addressed the multistakeholder community at ICANN 44 in Prague, he has emphasized that ICANN must not become a fortress, but rather an oasis.
From his introduction in ICANN 44 in Prague up to his final meeting at ICANN 55 in Marrakech, Fadi has been dedicated to promoting ICANN’s bottom-up, multistakeholder process. Fadi has played a critical role in some of the most crucial years in ICANN’s history. He stepped into his role in the early stages of the New gTLD Program, emphasizing operational excellence in the implementation this historical change to the Domain Name System. Under his tenure, also came the announcement that the U.S. Government intended to transition stewardship of the IANA Functions to the global multistakeholder community, nearing the culmination of the process dating back to the creation of ICANN in 1998. Needless to say, Fadi has been instrumental in some of ICANN’s most important moments, but arguably his most important contribution was transforming ICANN into a truly global organization and strengthening the multistakeholder model across the diverse spectrum of the ICANN community.
Fadi’s diplomatic strengths enabled him to engage the entire Internet community in a meaningful way, extending outreach to everyone from the individual Internet user to global leaders involved in a variety of Internet governance fora, including the IGF and the UN’s ITU. This leadership and outreach resulted in ICANN being invited to an ITU meeting for the first time. The strengthened relationships with organization like the ITU indicated a “new season of cooperation” among organizations perceived to be engaged in turf wars over Internet governance for years.
In addition to working with major organizations within the IG sphere, Fadi stressed the importance of engaging the global stakeholder community, making ICANN into more of the global entity that it was always meant to be. He helped “bring ICANN to the world, rather than asking the world to come to ICANN.” Within his first year, ICANN opened hubs in Singapore and Istanbul, and appointed four new VPs of Global Stakeholder Engagement to improve the international presence and participation in the regions of Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
To further engage and empower the global multistakeholder community the NextGen@ICANN program was created and the existing ICANN Fellowship Program was expanded from approximately 25 to 50 fellows per conference. These programs enable participants from developing countries to attend ICANN meetings and fully participate in the ICANN process, helping to bring a more diverse set of stakeholders to the decision making table.
With the help of a fantastic staff and executive team, Fadi has changed ICANN for the better, shifting the decision making process better reflect the all of the global stakeholders. Fadi’s dedication to globalising ICANN was even evident in the small things, like answering a question at the public forum in the Arabic. He brought an awareness to the diversity of ICANN’s stakeholders that ICANN had previously been missing and ultimately made it more of an oasis and less of a fortress.
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