Amadeu Abril i Abril

Affiliation:	ESADE, Ramon Llull University
Country:	Spain
Email:	amadeu [at] nominalia.com amadeu [at] abril.info
Twitter:	@AmadeuAbril
Formerly a member of the ICANN Board Has attended 30+ ICANN Meetings Featured in the ICANN 51 - Los Angeles playing card deck

Amadeu Abril i Abril is a professor at ESADE Law School, Ramon Llull University in Barcelona. He teaches European Union Law, Competition Law, and IT Law. He also serves as a secretary to the Competition Law & Policy Section of the Barcelona Bar where he was admitted in 1985.

He has played a significant role in the DNS reform process which resulted in the existence of ICANN and he is considered as one of the pioneers of Internet.

Career History

• He worked at the European Commission’s Directorate General for Competition Policy from 1986 to 1988. [1]

• DNSO selected him for the ICANN Board, his term started in 1999 and ended on 26 June 2003. [2] He is the only Catalan and one of only two Spaniards to have been a member of ICANN's Board of Directors.

• He led the campaign for .cat, the TLD exclusive to Catalan language. It was approved in 2005.[3]