Francisco da Silva

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Formerly a member of the ICANN Board

Francisco da Silva was a non-voting Board Member of ICANN from 2012 to 2013 as a liaison for the Technical Liaison Group.

Da Silva was born and raised in Portugal. His background in the telecommunications industry. From 1998 to 2012, he was chairman (and previously Vice Chairman of the Board 1996-1998) of the European Telecommunications Standard Institute (ETSI) General Assembly. He was elected chairman of the ETSI Board from 2002 to 2008. He is a member of the Technical Experts Group (TEG), representing ETSI.

He is a Senior Councillor at Huawei Technologies Sweden, which he represents in ETSI General Assembly. He is an ETSI representative to 3GPP Project Coordination Group and to the oneM2M Steering Committee. He is a Huawei representative in the Global eSustainability Initiative.

He was Director of EURESCOM (European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications — Board of Governors) and of ETNO (European Telecommunications Network Operators Association — Executive Board).

Da Silva has a Degree in Electrical Engineering (Instituto Superior Tenico – Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa). He is the author, among others, of books such as "Fronteiras do Futuro" (1994, impacts of the latest scientific and technological revolution on society), "Narrativa Nova" (1998, dialogues of the Information Society) and "Reviravolta" (from the telephone to the broadband).

He was selected for the ICANN Board by the Protocol Support Organization (now discontinued) and began service on its Board in December 2002. His first term as Technical Liaison Group Liaison ended after the conclusion of ICANN's annual meeting in 2004. He was selected to serve again as the non-voting liaison to the ICANN Board by the Technical Liaison Group through the 2007 annual meeting. Da Silva served as ICANN NomCom voting member in 2010. He was the non-voting liaison for the Technical Liaison Group until the AGM 2013.