Bendjedid Rachad Sanoussi is a young digital champion from Benin, currently based in Ghana, with a background in computer science and telecommunications.
He was selected as an ISOC Internet Governance Youth Ambassador in 2019. Rachad currently serves as Secretary-General of the organization’s Benin chapter and provides technical support for Digital Grassroots, a youth network to increase digital citizenship at the local level.
He first participated in an ICANN meeting in 2020 as an ICANN fellow, an experience that gave him a better understanding about how the ICANN community works. Rachad is currently involved with the African Regional At-Large Organization and the GNSO. He is also a fellow and mentor of the Ghana School on Internet Governance and a member of the Benin Domain Name System Forum’s steering committee.
Sanoussi is the first recipient of ICANN’s Paul Muchene Fellow Award.