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Dear GNA-G Community member,
The GNA-G Nominations Committee (NomCom) is accepting nominations for the GNA-G Leadership
Team (LT) through 23:00 GMT 31 March 2025. The LT has eight vacancies.
Introduction
The current Leadership Team consists of six seats for co-chairs: Buseung Cho (KISTI),
Harvey Newman (Caltech), David Wilde (AARnet), Ivana Golub (PSNC), and Alex Moura (KAUST)
with one vacant seat left by Marco Teixeira (RedClara) last year. Alex is still in his 1st
term and will continue in this role. Harvey, Ivana, and David have indicated they are
willing to serve the LT for a second term. They will follow the NomCom process alongside
any other nominees. This email will outline the details of that process.
The GNA-G Terms of Reference (ToR) have been changed recently allowing an LT of up to nine
members. For that reason, we are now filling eight vacancies. The new LT members will be
elected for a 48-month (4-year) term.
Anyone working in the R&E networking community is eligible to serve in the LT. The
NomCom will be looking for candidates with technical competence, organizational skills, or
relevant experience in guiding and setting community direction. In filling the open
positions, the NomCom considers age, gender, geographical location as well as R&E
networking experience to ensure that the global community is well represented on the LT.
What does it mean to be an LT member?
The LT looks after the long-term evolution of the networking layer of the Global R&E
Network (GREN) and provides oversight to the GNA-G Working Groups. The LT also manages the
GNA-G website and consults with the Executive Liaison from time to time. For more
information see https://www.gna-g.net/about-us/.
The LT meets by VC on a regular basis, to discuss progress, issues, and community
meetings. Due to the global nature of the GREN, the work in GNA-G means a VC out of office
hours, due to time zones. Also, the full GNA-G Community meets every now and then to
discuss developments and next steps at global events as much as possible, which may
involve occasional intercontinental travel. There is no reimbursement for serving on the
LT, as this is deemed a community service supported by your home organization.
How to get nominated?
Any member of the GNA-G Community may nominate any member of the GNA-G Community for the
open positions; self-nomination is permitted. A nomination is only complete when supported
by at least one other member from the community, from a different organization,
participating in the GNA-G, than the nominee. In addition, the nominee must accept the
nomination.
A nomination can have two forms:
1. You can nominate someone + get a second from a member of the community + have the
nominee accept the nomination; or
2. Nominate yourself + get a second from a member of the community.
You must indicate why you want to join the GNA-G LT. Nominations should be sent to:
nominations@lists.gna-g.net<mailto:nominations@lists.gna-g.net>. Accepted
nominations will be made public to the GNA-G community.
Nomination Timeline
1 March 2025 - Call for Nominations opens
31 March 2025 - Nominations close
10 April 2025 - Announcement of candidates by the NomCom, community feedback opens
30 April 2025 - Community Feedback closes
14 May 2025 - NomCom announces new LT members during GNA-G VC.
NomCom members
• Celeste Anderson (Pacific Wave) – USA
• Lars Fischer (NORDUnet) – European Nordics
• Alexander van den Hil (SURF) – The Netherlands
• Bruno Hoeft (KIT) – Germany
• Lisandro Granville (RNP) – Brazil
• Francis Bu Sung Lee (SingAREN) – Singapore
Should you have any questions or need further information, please feel free to reach out
to (one of) the NomCom members.
Kind regards,
Alexander van den Hil