Oscar Robles
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Email: | orobles[at]nic.mx |
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Oscar A. Robles-Garay is currently CEO of NIC Mexico. He has professional experiences in domain names, IP address space, Strategic Planning and Internet Governance.[1] He is the co-founder of LACTLD, and is currently its Chairman.
Oscar's native language is Spanish, though he is fluent in English and can speak some Portuguese.[2]
Past Experience
Oscar has been working in Internet Governance since 1996. In 1997, he was included in the experts group conducted by WIPO to comment on a RFC series. He is a co-founder of LACTLD and has been President of its Board of Directors two times. In 2005, he was appointed as an Advisory Council member for the Public Interest Registry, manager of the gTLD, .org. Apart from being active in the field he has teaching experience as well; he has taught e-commerce Legal Frameworks courses at the Virtual University of the Monterrey Institute of Technology in Mexico.[3]
Current Positions
- Representative for the Technical Community UN CSTD WG on the improvement of the IGF, since January, 2011.
- ITESM Campus Monterrey Business Incubator Board Member, since December, 2010.
- Advisory Council Member NIC.PR, since December, 2010.
- Chairman of the Board LACTLD since May, 2008.
- Public Interest Registry .ORG Advisory Council Member, since May, 2005.
- LACNIC Board Member,, since December, 2003.
- CEO of NIC Mexico, since January, 1997.[4]
Participation
- He has participated in the ICANN Membership Advisory Committee, the At-Large Study Committee, Domain Names SO Council, ccNSO Assistant Group, and the ccNSO Launching Group.[5]
- He attended the Caribbean ccTLD Policy and Technical Workshop held in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in August, 2008.[6]
- In 1997, he participated in the IFWP process, the formation of ICANN and the DNSO, and the DNSO Monterrey Meeting.
- He participated in the IAHC process and its Policy Advisory Body in 1996.[7]
Education
- Robles Garay holds a degree in Computer Systems Engineering, 1995.
- He has a Master's degree in Information Technologies Management from the Monterrey Institute of Technology, 1998.[8]