Philip Sheppard
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Philip Sheppard is an elected representative to GNSO. He is one of the thirtenn board member of IPRA and Chairs the Presidential Committee on governance change. He is also a freeman of the Merchant Taylors' Company of the City of London.
Mr. Sheppard is a member of the IRT Group and the Chair of Operations Steering Committee.[1] He is also the Public Affairs Manager for the European Brands Association - AIM.
He can speak French and English
Career History edit
Mr. Sheppard has worked with the oil company Shell, the consultants Ernst & Young, and most recently with a European trade association. He was elected as the President of IPRA in 2007. He has worked with Shell in London, Ireland and Dubai in various positions. Before joining Ernst & Young, he ran his own PR company for some years.
He has also held the position of public affairs manager for an association representing both multi-national organisations and national associations throughout western, central and eastern Europe.
He was apppointed the European Brands Association in 1995.
Work with ICANN edit
He has been participating in ICANN since 1999. Earlier, he was a member of the Business Users Constituency. He has been chair of the DNSO Names Council two times and has chaired issue task forces on review and on structure.
He participated in the ICNG in 2002. He chaired the GNSO Council Committee on new gTLDs in 2003.[2] In 2004, he chaired the dot net re-delegation subcommittee and in 2004 I served on the President's Committee on the WIPO II request.[3]
He attends ICANN Meetings[4][5][6] IPCC meetings.[7]
He led debate on IPRA’s latest code of ethical conduct, the Code of Brussels 2007, which applies to public affairs practitioners.[8]
Education edit
Mr. Sheppard is a graduate economist