TRACY HACKSHAW

With respect to his ICANN volunteer work, following his two year term as Vice Chair of the GAC, he was asked to Co-Chair the GAC Under-served Regions Working Group focusing on capacity building within developing and emerging economies primarily in the Africa, Caribbean and Pacific regions, and to take the Lead on the GAC Technology Task Force, charged with the redevelopment and redeployment of the GAC’s website on a new ICANN web platform. He also responded to the call to participate as a Community Mentor in ICANN’s Pilot Community Onboarding Program, a role which he performed from ICANN 55 through to ICANN 59, handing over the Mentorship mantle to his graduating, fully onboarded mentee at the end of the Johannesburg meeting. In 2018, he was selected to serve as the Latin American and Caribbean Regional At Large member on the 2019 ICANN Nominating Committee and in 2019, he was selected to serve a second term on the 2020 ICANN Nominating Committee. In September 2019 he was selected by the ICANN Board to serve as Chair-Elect of the 2021 ICANN Nominating Committee.

In addition to professional leadership roles in the Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago Ministries of Science & Technology, Public Administration and Planning & Development and iGovTT, among several other entities and organisations, Tracy has conducted Academic Teaching and Research work at the DiploFoundation/University of Malta, where he is currently a member of their Teaching and Research Faculty and at The University of the West Indies, where he received a 1st Class Honours Degree in Sociology & Psychology in 1996. Since graduation, he has continued his postgraduate learning path at Royal Holloway College, University of London, at the National University of Singapore (e-Government Leadership Centre, Institute of Systems Science), and in 2019, after completing further studies in Entrepreneurship and Small & Medium Enterprise Management at the Arthur Lok Jack Global School of Business, achieved a Masters in Small & Medium Enterprise Management with Distinction.

As Director of the Trinidad & Tobago Multistakeholder Advisory Group, he played an integral role in convening the inaugural Trinidad & Tobago Internet Governance Forum in January 2017 and has continued in this role right through to the most recent TTIGF held in January 2022. Tracy is the founding Vice Chair of the Internet Society Trinidad & Tobago Chapter and was elected its Chair for the 2017-19 term. In 2018, the Chapter was awarded the rights to implement the global Cybersecurity awareness campaign STOP.THINK.CONNECT™ in Trinidad and Tobago.