<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Wohooooooo<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 19 Jul 2018, at 15:54, Elsa S <<a href="mailto:elsa.saade@gmail.com" class="">elsa.saade@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="">Thank you very much Tatiana for nominating me for the GNSO Council and thank you all for the support you’ve showed both onlist and off-list, it has really been overwhelming.</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">I wholeheartedly accept this nomination looking forward to the next steps in this election. I also look forward to furthering my involvement with policy discussions at NCSG no matter what the outcomes of the elections turn out!</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Warm regards,</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Elsa</div><div dir="auto" class="">—</div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="">On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 9:24 AM Tatiana Tropina <<a href="mailto:tatiana.tropina@gmail.com" class="">tatiana.tropina@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class=""><span style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline" class="">Dear NCSG,</span><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class=""><br class=""><div class="">I would like to nominate Elsa Saade for the GNSO Council seat. </div></div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class="">Elsa is very much familiar with the GNSO work - she is a regular listener to GNSO calls and attendee of the GNSO sessions at ICANN meetings and NCSG policy calls. Furthermore, she was an alternate for one of our GNSO Councillors (Arsene) in Panama - and while we were missing Arsene big time, she took this role and fulfilled the duties in the best way possible. <br class=""></div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class="">Elsa is currently holding a leadership position at NCUC as an executive committee member and I know that she is well engaged there. I hope she is willing to move to policy work with us and is ready to put her candidacy forward for the Council. </div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class="">I know that in her day job she has been working on the projects related to privacy, freedom of expression, human rights in general - so she has a huge experience advocating for the values NCSG stands for. </div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class="">Elsa, what would you say? I do hope you accept this nomination.</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class="">Warm regards,</div><div style="font-size:small;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class="">Tanya </div><br class=""></div>
</blockquote></div></div>-- <br class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">--<br class=""><br class="">Elsa Saade<br class="">Consultant</div></div><div class="">Gulf Centre for Human Rights</div><div class="">Twitter: @Elsa_Saade</div></div></div></div></div>
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