Greg Shatan

Organization:	Moses & Singer LLP
Affiliation:	ALAC
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Region:	North America
Country:	United States
Email:	gshatan@mosessinger.com
Facebook:	Greg Shatan
LinkedIn:	Greg Shatan
Twitter:	@gss1958
Currently a member of the GNSO's IP Constituency Featured in the ICANN 52 - Singapore playing card deck

Greg Shatan is a Partner in the New York office of Moses & Singer LLP, which he joined in January 2018. He primarily practices in the area of technology transactions, Internet, Domain Names, IP, and web accessibility law. Previously, he was a partner at Reed Smith LLP and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP and an associate at Weil, Gotshal & Manges.

Greg is the President of the New York Chapter of the Internet Society (ISOC-NY) and represents ISOC-NY as an At-Large Structure in the At-Large Community and is a member of the ALAC.

ICANN Involvement

On October 22, 2020, Greg joined ALAC as a Member representing North America, chosen by the ICANN NomCom.

Greg is or has been involved in the following ICANN Working Groups and Drafting Teams::

• GNSO Working Group on Subsequent Rounds for New gTLDs
• GNSO Working Group to Review All Rights Protection Mechanisms in All gTLDS
• Cross-Community Engagement Group on Internet Governance (CCWG-IG)
• Cross-Community Working Group Develop an IANA Stewardship Transition Proposal on Naming Related Functions (CWG-IANA) -- Member, representing the CSG
• Cross-Community Working Group on Enhancing ICANN's Accountability (CCWG-Accountability) -- Participant
• GNSO Working Group on Next Generation Registrant Directory Services -- Participant
• Reserved Names WG (2007)
• Single Letter Names WG (2007) (sub-WG of Reserved Names WG) (Chair)
• Rights Protection Mechanism Ad Hoc Reference Implementation Group (2007)
• Temporary Drafting Group on New gTLD Registry Agreement Issues (TDG-Legal) (2010-2011)
• IOC/RCRC Protections DT (2011-2012)
• IGO-INGO Protections PDP WG (2012-2013)
• Policy & Implementation Charter DT (2013)
• Policy & Implementation WG (2013-2015)
• GNSO Standing Committee on Improvements -- IPC Representative (alternate) (2013-2015)

Greg was the President of the Intellectual Property Constituency from 2015 to 2017.

Education

Greg has degrees from Wesleyan University (B.A. in Sociology/Psychology and Music, 1981) and Columbia University Law School (J.D., 1986). Greg also attended Cardozo Law School. At Columbia Law School, he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Columbia-VLA Journal of Law & the Arts and a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. At Wesleyan, he was the President and Music Director of WESU-FM, the university's radio station. Greg also played on the Wesleyan University Rugby Football Club and the Columbia Business School Rugby Football Club.

At-Large Advisory Committee. Considers and provides advice on the activities of ICANN related to the interests of individual Internet users (ICANN Bylaws). Not to be confused with the Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group.

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).

Commercial Stakeholder Group. Represents the full range of large and small commercial entities of the Internet, including the Business Constituency, Intellectual Property Constituency and the Internet Service Providers and Connectivity Providers Constituency (ICANN Bylaws).

Policy Development Process