Amadeu Abril i Abril

Country:	Spain
Twitter:	@AmadeuAbril

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. [1]

He has played a great role in the DNS reform process which resulted in the existence of ICANN [2] He is considered as one of the pioneers of internet. [3]

Career History

• He worked at the European Commission’s Directorate General for Competition Policy from 1986 to 1988. [4]

• DNSO selected him for the ICANN Board, his term started in 1999 and ended on 26 June 2003. [5] He is the only Catalan and one of only two Spaniards to have been a member of ICANN's Board of Directors.[6]

• He led the campaign for .cat, the TLD exclusive to Catalan language. It was approved in 2005.[7]

Deprecated. Domain Name Supporting Organization. Predecessor of the Generic Names Supporting Organization, which advised the Board with respect to policy issues relating to the Domain Name System (ICANN Bylaws).

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