Candidate statement Stephanie Perrin

[Stephanie Perrin]

Stephanie Perrin Declaration of Candidacy for NCSG Chair 2019-2020

I would like to thank Tapani Tarvainen for nominating me for another term as Chair of NCSG, and thanks to all those who have signaled their support.  It is an honour to serve you all, and I do feel that I have only got started.

My name is Stephanie Perrin, I live in Canada, I am a woman and I am retired from 35 years service in the Canadian federal government, where I worked extensively on Data Protection issues in the Communications and IT departments, including the drafting of the Canadian private sector law.   I took a leave of absence from the government to work as Chief Privacy Officer for Zero Knowledge Systems in 2000, and in 2003 set up my own consulting company, Digital Discretion Inc.  I returned to government to work as Director of Research and Policy in the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada from 2005-7, and retired from Service Canada in 2013.   I currently do a bit of privacy consulting, through Digital Discretion.

Given that my work always involves research and the implementation of law dedicated to the promotion of human rights and protection of privacy, it would be a rare occasion for me to have a conflict in any paid or volunteer work that I engage in, with the goals, activities and objectives of NCSG.  I am well versed in the declaration of conflicts, and will do so should such an occasion arise.

It is a truism that those who work as public servants often underestimate what they have learned in their tasks, in terms of management experience, policy expertise, understanding of public interest and stakeholder differences, and risk management.  After 6 years of volunteering at ICANN largely to promote its adherence to privacy law, I have realized that there are other aspects of management that I might usefully contribute to our enterprise here.  I hope to do so over the coming year, focusing on metrics of our engagement, improved assistance to members to contribute, more policies governing our conduct, and procedures to clarify how we operate.  In particular, I have worked on and hope to bring to our discussions:

·      Risk management and the concept of maturity models and growth in capability

·      Ethics and respect for a gender neutral, multicultural workplace

·      Financial management

·      Transparency and open government

·      Training and development
These are all areas I have worked in and received training in over the years.  My resume is available on request.  I received a PhD from the University of Toronto, Faculty of Information Studies in 2018, and I have an MA and BA in English literature.  I have a certificate in risk management from the Sprott School of Management.  I speak english and french.

I have been donating about 30 hours a week to ICANN over the past few years.  I am retired (sort of) and can afford to contribute this time, but I recognize it is extremely hard for younger people with careers and families to look after to contribute this amount of time.  We need to figure out better ways to distribute the workload, but I am certainly willing to give another year of work at this level.

I consider the multistakeholder model to be one of the more promising forms of governance in the information society, but I cannot say it is working at peak performance level.  It is one of my goals to help improve how we do this, and it appears that this will be a critical year to focus on this issue, as ICANN.org has announced its intention to renovate the MS model.  I hope you will elect me leader during this critical time, and I also hope that you will join in a rigorous effort to influence the outcome of this change of state at ICANN.

Finally I would like to thank Maryam Bakoshi for all she does to support me, the leadership team, and all of us, as our dedicated staff member.

Stephanie Perrin
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