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Satish Babu (25 mins)
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Moderator & Speaker Profiles:

Satish Babu is Chair of APRALO, the Asian, Australasian and Pacific Islands Regional At-Large Organization, one of 5 RALOs which make up the At-Large Community.

Emily Taylor is CEO of Oxford Information Labs. A lawyer by training, Emily has worked in the Internet governance and cybersecurity environment for more than 20 years. She is lead author of the long-standing EURid UNESCO World Report on Internationalised Domain Names. Emily is an associate fellow at Chatham House and editor of the Journal of Cyber Policy; a research associate at the Oxford Internet Institute and an affiliate professor at the Dirpolis Institute, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa. Emily writes a weekly column for World Politics Review has written for the Guardian, Wired, Ars Technica, the New Statesman and the Slate, and is a regular commentator on technology issues in news and broadcast media including the BBC and Sky News. Emily is a graduate of Cambridge University, and has an MBA from Open University. Follow her on Twitter @etaylaw.

Sarmad Hussain is with ICANN’s Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) and Universal Acceptance (UA) Programs. Earlier, Sarmad was a professor of Computer Science and held the IDRC Chair in Multilingual Computing. His research has focused on developing computing solutions for Asian languages, including research in linguistics, localization, speech processing and computational linguistics. He has been an active member of the ICANN community, engaged in IDN ccTLD application for Pakistan and as a member of ICANN’s Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC), before joining ICANN.

Justine Chew is the member of the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) selected by the Nominating Committee to represent the Asian, Australasian and Pacific Islands Region for the 2019-2021 term. From 2016 to 2021, she was an active member of the now concluded New gTLD Subsequent Procedures PDP Working Group, where she also served as the At-Large liaison from 2018. As part of that liaison role, Justine spearheaded a small team which led the consensus building efforts of the At-Large Consolidated Policy Working Group (CPWG) to produce ALAC statements on the Subsequent Procedures PDP Working Group reports, as well as ALAC Advice to the ICANN Board on Subsequent Procedures.  She was also a panelist for the ICANN68 At-Large Policy Session on "New gTLD Applicants: Expanding the Circle". Justine is an Advocate & Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya and continues to practise law in Malaysia while pursuing a number of other interests.