Speaker Biography
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Germán Valdez AvilésCommunications Director
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Germán Valdez Avilés is the Communications Director at APNIC.
He is responsible for coordinating and integrating all communications and public relations activities for APNIC. He provides strategic direction for all communications activities throughout the organization.
In the past, he has been responsible for the coordination of development of the Domain Names Policies under the .mx Country Code Top Level Domain (ccTLD). For two years, he was an active member of the ICANN Address Council, representing the Latin American region. He was also a founding member of the ICANN Nominating Committee and the Board of Directors from the Latin American and Caribbean Internet Addresses Registry (LACNIC).
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Current Position and Activities |
Germán is the Communications Director for the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC). Here, he provides strategic direction for all communications activities throughout APNIC. This includes coordinating and integrating all communications and public relations activities within the Asia Pacific Internet community and global liaison. |
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Previous Positions |
Germán has ten years of experience in Internet coordination at an international level in the field of IP addressing and DNS services. He is committed and diplomatic, with an excellent understanding of institutional relationships and their value. He has broad experience in presenting, moderating, and participating in different international forums and meetings of a governmental, technical, and private nature. From 2003 - 2007, Germán was the Policy and External Relations Manager at LACNIC. In this position, Germán's responsibilities included creating and maintaining LACNIC's institutional relationships with different Internet stakeholders within the Latin America and Caribbean region, including governmental organizations, civil society, academia, cooperate organizations, and so forth. Germán frequently represented LACNIC at different regional forums and meetings at a political and technical level, which included collaborating with external organizations to complete important projects. Prior to his LACNIC appointment, Germán worked as a member of LACNIC's Board of Directors, from September 1999 to June 2003. This role involved moderating LACNINC's Public Forum from December 2000 to October 2004 (LACNIC I to LACNIN VII), as well as developing and preparing the first Internet resource allocation policies in Latin America and the Caribbean. Germán acted as a member of various committees and councils during this period, such as the ASO AC, the ICANN NOM COM 2003, representing NIC Mexico to DNSO and later ccNSO, and NIC Mexico's Advisory Council for the development of policies related to domain names. |
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Education/Achievements |
Montevideo University Tecnológico de Monterrey Tecnológico de Monterrey |
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Current positions outside of APNIC |
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Germán Valdez is the Communications Area Manager at APNIC. His work is focused on building stakeholder awareness in the Asia Pacific with regard to key IP addressing issues, such as IPv6 deployment.
Germán is also a long time, active member of the Global Internet governance community. 
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