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Satish Babu, APRALO, based in India

Fidya Shabrina, ICANN80 Fellow, based in Indonesia

An experienced strategist with solid proficiency in public engagement and media. In the last 7 years, Fidya have applied her expertise covering law, cybersecurity, media production and Internet governance in academic, public, and business sphere, across multiple countries in Asia Pacific and North America. Her strongly skilled in diplomacy and negotiation across multilingual environments with her Native Bahasa Indonesia, Fluent English, and Basic Arabic, Basic German, and Basic Korean language skills. She strives for results by maintaining a strong relationship with both colleagues and clients and she is an ICANN80 Fellow. 

Tomslin Samme-Nlar, GNSO Council Vice-Chair & GNSO Councillor, Currently based in Australia

Tomslin

 is a Cybersecurity researcher and executive with a keen interest in the political, military, diplomatic and higher-level management aspects of issues where cybersecurity, strategy and diplomacy interact in Africa. He currently works as a Senior Principal Consultant for Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories and also as the Director of Research at Gefona Digital Foundation (a local think tank in Cameroon). He is also a panel of experts member at the Security Institute of Governance and Leadership in Africa (SIGLA), a Faculty of Military Science research institute of Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He has had previous roles as a contractor for the Kenyan National Intelligence Service, other government agencies and telcos.

Tomslin is a current councilor in the GNSO Council, the current NCSG Policy Chair and co-chair of the first IANA Function Review Team at the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

Tomslin has a master's in Cyber Security, Strategy and Diplomacy from UNSW Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy. A Bachelor's degree in Technology Management and Computing from Portsmouth University, UK and other certificates including a certificate in International Law of Armed Conflict in Theory and Practice from Leiden University, a certificate in Diplomatic Theory and Practice from DiploFoundation and an associate degree in Business Administration.

Zakir Syed, representing GAC, based in Pakistan

Zakir

is currently working as Director Internet Governance at the Ministry of IT & Telecom, Zakir Syed is an ICT strategy and research professional having in depth knowledge of emerging technologies, policy & regulation, Internet governance and latest trends in the role of ICTs in different sectors.

Before joining MOITT, he has been working with different for-profit and not-for-profit organizations in the MENA and South Asia regions.

Zakir is an alumnus of the ICANN, APrIGF, and MEAC-SIG fellowship programs and has been active contributor to the regional and beyond region internet governance and policy dialogue. He was also nominated by the Internet Society as their Ambassador to the United Nations’ IGF 2017 in Geneva. By trainings, he is a Software Engineer, and has numerous international certifications and trainings to his credit.

Ian Chiang, ccNSO, based in Taiwan

Ian is Director of the Department of Domain Name Services

at TWNIC.