ICANN CEO Search Committee Hopes To Recommend Final Candidates by End of 2015
ICANN’s CEO search committee has begun interviewing perspective candidates to succeed current CEO Fadi Chehadé “and will continue for the next couple of months,” with the aim of developing a set of recommended candidates by the end of the year,…
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ICANN said Tuesday in a blog post. Applications for candidates to replace Chehadé were due Sept. 30. Chehadé said in May that he plans to leave ICANN after the nonprofit corporation’s March 5-10 meeting in Marrakech, Morocco (see 1505220051). Ninety-three percent of the more than 100 candidates who applied to succeed Chehadé are male, ICANN said. Forty-one percent of the initial CEO applicants were from North America, while 27 percent were from Europe and 16 percent from Asia, ICANN said. Nine percent of applicants were from Africa and 7 percent were from Latin America and the Caribbean, ICANN said. “Winnowing a large list of candidates is relatively easy at the beginning of the process, but becomes increasingly more difficult as the process continues, since the candidates being eliminated from consideration are increasingly experienced and well qualified,” ICANN said. The CEO search committee is “therefore moving somewhat more slowly in its deliberations, in order to assure that the decisions made are in the interests of obtaining a CEO that is best suited to leading ICANN.”