Candidate statement - Julf Helsingius

[Amin Hacha]

Julf, wishing you all the best. You deserve it!
Amin

On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 4:08 PM Johan Helsingius <
00001963cc94b85a-dmarc-request at listserv.syr.edu> wrote:

> Here is my candidate statement, as required by our rules:
>
> I am Julf (Johan) Helsingius, Finnish citizen resident in the
> Netherlands (so my region is Europe), male and currently employed
> as chairman of the board at IoT service provider BaseN.
>
> As far as I know, I don't have any conflict of interest, but
> in the spirit of transparency I am currently serving as
> co-chair for the RIPE cooperation working group.
>
> As NCSG chair I have had to mainly focus on the administrative side,
> with a lot of operational issues and procedures to sort out, so I am
> looking forward to a possibility of getting my teeth into some actual
> policy issues again.
>
> As to qualifications, I have served as chair, board member and/or CEO
> for many organisations, both commercial and non-commercial. My privacy
> activism and strong belief in human rights is pretty well known, and
> some of my activities earned me, among other things, the EFF Pioneer
> award back in 1997, a year before my fellow Swedish-speaking Finn
> Linus Torvalds, and four years before the other award recipient in
> our group, Stephanie Perrin.
>
> My interest in ICANN kind of goes back to a dinner at one of the PC
> Forum events (1998?) organized by Ester Dyson, where I got to witness
> an interesting discussion between Esther and Ira Magaziner, but more
> recently I have spent 2 years as NomCom appointee to the GNSO Council
> and 3 years as the GNSO Council liaison to the GAC, as well as chairing
> the GNSO Standing Selection Committee and participating in a bunch of
> Accountability WS2 working groups and the rather traumatic first EPDP.
>
> As my employment is part-time these days, I have the time required.
>
> Happy to answer any questions.
>
>         Julf
>
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