Ayden Férdeline

Affiliation:	GNSO, NextGen@ICANN
Stakeholder Group(s):	,|xyz|xyz| }}
Region:	Europe
Country:	United Kingdom
Email:	ayden [at] ferdeline.com
Website:	http://www.ferdeline.com
LinkedIn:	Ayden Férdeline
Twitter:	@ferdeline

Ayden Férdeline is an Internet governance and media policy consultant based in London.

After participating in the NextGen@ICANN program in October 2015 at ICANN 54 in Dublin, he joined the Non-Commercial Stakeholders Group (NCSG). He was appointed to the Policy Committee of the NCSG in January 2017 by the Executive Committee of the Non-Commercial Users Constituency (NCUC). He is an active participant in the Next-Generation Registration Directory Service Policy Development Process working group.

He received NCUC travel support to attend ICANN 55 in Marrakech, and represented the NCUC as a workshop moderator at the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva in 2016 with the support of the CROPP program.

He participated in ICANN 56 in Helsinki, ICANN 57 in Hyderabad, ICANN 58 in Copenhagen, and ICANN 59 in Johannesburg as part of the Community Onboarding Program. He traveled to Reykjavik for the fourth NCPH Intersessional as a representative of the NCUC. He will participate in ICANN 60 in Abu Dhabi as part of the Community Onboarding Program.

He was an Internet Society Ambassador to the United Nations Internet Governance Forum in Guadalajara in 2016, and a fellow of the European Dialogue on Internet Governance in Brussels (2016) and in Tallinn (2017).

Outside of ICANN, he is a member of the Youth Coalition on Internet Governance, and the Internet Governance Forum Support Association.

He holds a Master of Science degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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).

Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group. Represents the full range of non-commercial entities of the Internet (ICANN Bylaws). Not to be confused with the At-Large Advisory Committee.

Non-Commercial Users Constituency