Affiliation: NCUC
Country: United Kingdom
Email: ayden [at] ferdeline.com
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Ayden Férdeline is an Internet governance and media policy consultant based in London.

After participating in the NextGen@ICANN program in October 2015 at ICANN 54 in Dublin, he joined the Non-Commercial Stakeholders Group (NCSG). He was appointed to the Policy Committee of the NCSG in January 2017 by the Executive Committee of the Non-Commercial Users Constituency (NCUC). He is an active participant in the Next-Generation Registration Directory Service Policy Development Process working group.

He received NCUC travel support to attend ICANN 55 in Marrakech, and represented the NCUC as a workshop moderator at the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva in 2016 with the support of the CROPP program.

He participated in ICANN 56 in Helsinki and ICANN 57 in Hyderabad as part of the Community Onboarding Program. He traveled to Reykjavik for the fourth NCPH Intersessional as a representative of the NCUC. He will participate in ICANN 58 in Copenhagen as part of the Community Onboarding Program.

Outside of ICANN, he is raising his profile in high-level multilateral forums where Internet governance topics are being discussed, and is a member of both the Youth Coalition on Internet Governance and the Internet Governance Forum Support Association. He holds a Master of Science degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Western Australia.