Maria Farrell
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| Country: | Ireland |
| Email: | maria.farrell [at] icann.org |
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| Blog: | [crookedtimber.org crookedtimber.org] |
| LinkedIn: |  [Maria Farrell Maria Farrell]
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| Twitter: |  @mariafarrell
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Maria Farrell Maria Farrell is a writer and independent consultant specialising in Internet policy development communications and community-building.[1] She currently serves as a Committee member on ICANN's Nominating Committee, and as an IT consultant and Task Manager of Electronic Waste (Brazil) for infoDev, an IT division within The World Bank.
ICANN Involvement edit
Ms. Farrell represents the Non-Commercial Users Constituency on the Nominating Committee,[2] she has been a part of the NomCom since December, 2010.[3] At ICANN San Francisco, Maria Farrel noted at the public comment forum how Rod Beckstrom was forcing the departure of a large number of experienced staffers under his management of the organization; she openly criticized this "hollowing out" of the body and decried the degradation of its international reputation.[4]
From 2005 to 2010, she was a member of the ICANN Staff, first as the Policy Support Officer for the GNSO and later as the Director of Information Coordination. She was promoted from the former to the latter in 2007. That role saw her taking on significant responsibilities, including: managing corporate affairs, internal communications with the Board and other departments, and the management of staff involved with the President's Strategy Committee, the Translation Unit, and the NomCom.[5][6]
Career edit
Maria Farrell has work in IT and Internet policy outside of ICANN as well, including International experience in London and Paris.[7] For two years she was the Policy Manager of IT, e-commerce, and telecommunications for the International Chamber of Commerce. She has also worked as a Policy Executive for the Law Society of England and Wales, and as a Policy Adviser for the confederation of British Industry.[8]
Education edit
She went to the University of Dublin where she studied politics and History. She earned degrees in these fields and later joined various TV productions in Ireland and the United Kingdom for only four years. Earning a master’s degree for interactive media about twelve years ago, she would later earn an MA for Government projects in the year 2000 at London’s school of economics. During her time as an ICANN policy developer she would go on to earn yet another degree while in Belgium for Management.[9]