Paul Diaz

Affiliation:	PIR
Country:	USA
LinkedIn:	[linkedin.com/pub/paul-diaz/0/25/653 Paul Diaz]
Currently a member of ICANN's RySG Featured in the ICANN 53 - Buenos Aires playing card deck

Paul Diaz is currently the Director of Policy for PIR; he has held this position since October, 2011. His responsibilities included governance and compliance initiatives related to new TLDs, ICANN policies, and industry regulations, as well as advocating Company positions before Congress and Executive branch agencies. He also serves as ICANN's Registries Stakeholder Group's Chair, 2015-2016.

He is the former Policy Manager at Network Solutions, where he began in 1998 and was responsible for handling ICANN-related issues, corporate advocacy at the local, state and federal levels, and administering Network Solutions' business ethics program. Mr. Diaz spent almost 13 years in policy management, data analysis and competitive research roles for Network Solutions.

Prior to joining Network Solutions, Paul Diaz spent six and half years as an intelligence officer working with the Central Intelligence Agency, and focused on Latin America. He has traveled throughout Mexico, Central America, and Colombia.

Paul received his Masters of Public Policy from the Kennedy School at Harvard University, and his undergraduate degree (with honors, Phi Beta Kappa) from Trinity College in Hartford, C.T. He lives and works in Northern Virginia, USA.