Mr. Nicolas G. Caballero is a Data Analyst, ERP Software and DNS expert; he is an ICT Advisor at MITIC (Paraguay ICT Ministry) and is currently also the President of CEILAC DNS Center in Asuncion. He studied English at Pittsburgh State University in Kansas, USA; Computer Science at Universidad Autonoma de Asuncion in Paraguay; E-Government at Konkuk University in Seoul, Korea; and electric car technologies at Delft University of Technology, Netherlands. He was a direct ICT Advisor for the office of the President of the Republic, and as such coordinated the demonopolization of internet service in Paraguay; the establishment of the Digital TV Standard (ISDB-Tb); the creation of the ICT Ministry, SENATICS; and coordinated the team that drafted the first Paraguayan civil satellite program, which in turn led to the establishment of the Paraguayan space agency (AEP).

He was the founder of Internet Society Paraguay Chapter and served as its 1st President. He was also the 1st Paraguayan GAC Representative; in parallel he served as the Internet Governance Forum "RIR" (Regional Initiative Representative) in the country, where he organized the first IGF meeting in 2014. Nico Caballero was further responsible for the extensive capacity building work carried out by the ICT Ministry, in particular the MOU with ICANN in 2016/17 when he coordinated the establishment of the "CEILAC DNS Center", as a cooperation agreement between SENATICS, LACTLD and ICANN, which remained operative within the structure of MITIC.

Nico was also responsible for organizing key IT events in Paraguay: the ICANN "DNS Roadshow", ISOC Chapter events & Chapter projects aimed at developing connectivity in rural areas, providing digital training and IT infrastructure to high schools, and providing internet connection, Ecommerce tools and digital training for Native Indigenous people in remote areas. In 2017 he went to the private sector, and in 2022 resumed his role as Paraguay GAC Representative at ICANN-74 in The Hague, Netherlands. Right afterwards, at ICANN-76 in Kuala Lumpur, he was elected GAC Chair, the first time a Latin American representative holds the position. He is fluent in three Languages: Spanish, English and Portuguese; and also speaks French and Italian. He loves rugby, plays classical guitar, and is also a 4th Degree Black Belt in Taekwon-Do ITF.

Zeina is the Head of International Cooperation at OGERO Telecom, the incumbent operator in Lebanon.

With a BA in Business Administration focused on Marketing and Management, she has 25 years of experience in Marcom, Regulatory Affairs, and International Cooperation.

Zeina is the focal point with ITU and leading OGERO's activities related to "Girl's in ICT" and Women Empowerment as well as Child Online Protection. She is Vice Chair for the ITU's Advisory Board of the Network of Women representing the Arab Region.

On Internet Governance, Zeina served as Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) member for 3 years, representing the Public sector in Lebanon and the Arab Region. She is Member of the Arab MAG and of the Technical Cooperation Working Group, nominated by the League of Arab States and ESCWA, to work on the enhancement of the Arab Internet Governance Forum.

Currently, Zeina is heading the General Secretariat of the Lebanese IGF and its coordinator, and the representative of this initiative in the United Nations IGF NRIs and Global Digital Compact.

Zeina is also member of the national committee for Children Online Safety within the Higher Council for Childhood and the Scientific Communication Coordinator for the Super Computer (High Performance Computing for Lebanon).

She is elected Vice Chair of ISOC Gender Group and recently chosen by "Missions Publiques" for their global fellowship program.

Her journey with ICANN started when she was selected ICANN 72 and ICANN 75 fellow. In 2022, she was then nominated Alternate Representative of Lebanon to GAC, and lately Vice-Chair of the GAC.

Christine Arida is Strategic Advisor to the Executive President and Board Member at the National Telecom Regulatory Authority of Egypt. She has over 30 years of experience in areas related to Internet development, telecom regulations and digital public policies. She is appointed board member of NTRA since November 2021. During her work at NTRA, Ms. Arida has led a number of strategic projects. She championed the drafting of Egypt's National Broadband Plan "eMisr" in 2011 and launched its implementation in 2013. In 2021 Ms. Arida created NTRA's Center of Experts and supervised its work over 2 years, and in 2019, she established the Strategic Planning sector and supervised its work for 3 years. In 2017, she created the cross-functional team on IoT and M2M regulations and led its work for 3 years, and in 2014, she helped launch the "DNS Entrepreneurship Center" and Egypt's IDN ccTLD "dotMasr" in 2010.

From 2001 to 2006 Ms. Arida worked for the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, where she participated in drafting "Egypt's Broadband Agenda 2004 – 2007" and "Egypt's Telecommunication Master Plan" in 2004.

Ms. Arida is appointed member of Egypt's Supreme Council for Culture, Committee for Digital Culture and Cultural Infrastructure since 2021. She is lead expert on Internet governance and represents the government of Egypt at the UN Internet Governance Forum Multistakeholder Advisory Group (IGF MAG) since 2007 and at the Governmental Advisory Committee of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN GAC) since 2017. Ms. Arida is co-founder of the Arab Internet Governance Forum, board member and founding member of the Internet Society Chapter of Egypt, and founding member of the African Network Information Centre (AfriNIC).

Ms. Arida started her career at the Cabinet's Information and Decision Support Center in 1992, where she was among the team who first connected Egypt to the Internet. She holds a B.Sc. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University.

Nigel Hickson is currently working on Internet Governance policy at the UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, where, among other roles, he is the UK representative on the Government Advisory Committee at ICANN. Joining the UK Civil Service in 1982, Nigel has worked on a number of policy issues including secondment to the UK Confederation of British Industry (CB)I and working for the Minister for Telecommunications in Bermuda for three years. From 2012 he worked for ICANN in Brussels and Geneva before returning to the UK government in 2012 to work on data protection issues.

Mr. Dal-Toe holds an undergraduate degree in Government and International Affairs from the University of Tampa, a Master's degree in International Relations from the University of Kent, and a Master's degree in Peace and Conflict Resolution from the American University.

Currently, he is an Advisor at the Ministry of Information and Communication Technologies in Colombia (MinTIC), where he has carried out multiple strategies and initiatives for the digital development of the country. As an advisor to the Viceminister of Digital Transformation, he led initiatives related to cybersecurity, digital entrepreneurship, and internet governance. In addition to that, since 2020 he is the coordinator of the Domain .co and Internet Governance Working Group, where he is responsible for the implementation of the ccTLD .co national strategy, increasing the government's revenue, which are then invested in digital programs that seek to reduce the digital gap and increase connectivity, particularly in rural areas in the country.

Prior to joining the Ministry, Mr. Dal-Toe worked in multilateral organizations in Europe and the United States and the public sector in Colombia, managing economic, social, and technological development projects. He has served as a project manager to the Organization of American States (OAS) and consultant at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

Mr. WANG Lang works in China Internet Network Information Center ( and serves as the Head of the International Affairs Department. H e has a solid technological background. He got his Master degree of Engineering in C omputer Application in Beijing Normal University and has devoted himself in domain name industry for 20 years . Familiar with Domain Name System (DNS), Shared Registry System (SRS), and Registration Data Directory Services RDDS, or WHOIS) technologies, he organized and participated in the design, development, testing and verification of EPP (Version 0.4/1.0) SRS and RDDS systems of ". CN " ccTLD.

Lang has accumulated rich experience in project management. He own ed PMP and Scrum Master Certifications and focus ed on process and system construction. He ever took part in building quality assurance system for R&D pr ocess of CNNIC and passed the CMMI assessment successfully. He was also engaged in several key projects, such as the National Engineering Laboratory of Internet Domain Name Management and China Next Generation Infrastructure (CNGI) China Domain Name Syst em IPv6 Upgrade and Transformation.

Although his expertise lies on technology h e has an international outlook in Internet governance and other international exchanges. H e has close ties with ICANN community and proactively engage s himself in IG relevant communities, such as IGF, ITU and IETF, etc. He is familiar with ICANN's policies, processes and mechanisms. He leads his team to track global Internet governance trends and conduct s research es on Internet governance issues. He also presided and organized discussions among experts in Internet governance forums based on World Internet Conference (WIC) Wuzhen Summit ), China Internet Infrastructure Resources Conference (CNIRC) and so on.