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Lesley Cowley is the Chief Executive at Nominet UK and a Chair, ccNSO at ICANN.
Professional experience and awards
Lesley Cowley has been Chief Executive at Nominet since 2002. Her responsibilities involve leading Nominet and plan and control the strategies' implementation.[1]
Nominet is a domain registry non-profit company that acts in the interest of all .uk stakeholders with approx. 3000 members. [2] The company has a long standing commitment to becoming a leader in matter of internet governance. As part of this commitment, Lesley Cowley has been a member of the Country Code Names Supporting Organisation (ccNSO) at ICANN since 2007, being appointed as Chair in 2011. [3] Among others, Lesley Cowley is also a respected member of different boards, among which:
- British Computer Society
- Institute of Credit Management
- Chartered Management Institute
- Royal Society for Arts
- STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Ambassador to schools
- Founding Trustee of Nominet Trust Charity [4]
Awards
- OBE for services to Internet and e-commerce, 2011
- CBI First Women Award for Technology, 2007 [5]
- Special commendation from Britain's Best Boss awards for encouraging a can-do attitude, 2006 [6]