The outgoing President and Chief
Executive Officer of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN), Fadi Chehadé, will by end of his tenure in March 2016, join the World
Economic Forum (WEF), as senior advisor to the Executive Chairman, reports ITRealms.
Confirming this, the Head, Media and
Public Engagement at WEF, Fon Mathuros, noted that as the driving force behind
the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the Internet is a catalyst for economic progress
and social development, he they see the Forum’s future of the Internet
initiative aimed at helping to strengthen trust in the digital world and to
expand concrete cooperation on global challenges and opportunities.
Reacting to his latest migration
step, Chehade expressed gratefulness for the opportunity to contribute to the
World Economic Forum’s work, by way of advising the Global Challenge Initiative
on the Future of the Internet.
“I am deeply committed to doing
everything I can to help ensure a trusted digital world, advancing global
economic development and social progress for all. The Forum is uniquely
positioned as an enabling platform to coalesce public, private and civic
leaders and experts to form networks addressing the many economic and societal
issues requiring global cooperation,” he said.
Klaus Schwab, the Founder and
Executive Chairman of WEF pointed out that the Internet is a catalyst for the
deep transformation of the global economy and society, stressing that the
Forum’s work in this area will greatly benefit from Fadi Chehadé’s vision,
counsel and drive in its efforts to advance progress through multistakeholder
cooperation on some of the practical economic, social and security issues facing
the international community.
ITRealms gathered that the Future of
the Internet Initiative seeks to help shape the Internet as the trusted driver
of human progress, safeguarding its open, globally integrated, highly
distributed, and multistakeholder nature. Focused on enabling networks of
multistakeholder cooperation, it will actively address economic and societal
topics including digital trade, cybercrime and policies facilitating access for
all.
Before joining ICANN as its
President and CEO in late 2012, Fadi Chehadé served as IBM’s General Manager
for technology services in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. He
also built several successful cloud-based companies in California and is
expected to assume office on 1 April 2016.
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