26 April 2007—Giovanni Seppia will take on the role of International Relations Manager of EURid as of May 14, 2007. The position has been newly created and includes being responsible for EURid’s relations with relevant international organisations, such as ICANN (the international body overseeing all top-level domains) and CENTR (Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries) as well as other international bodies. Furthermore, he will represent EURid in international fora. In this role he will report to the general manager.

“International relations play an important role for any top-level domain and especially for .eu, which is transnational in its nature. Therefore, I am very satisfied that we managed to get Giovanni on board. I am sure that with his long experience and extensive network he will contribute in a significant way to EURid’s further development in this field,” commented Marc Van Wesemael, EURid’s General Manager.

Giovanni previously worked at ICANN as European Regional Liaison. Prior to that he was the General Manager at CENTR. He has also served as Head of External Relations of the Italian Registry (ITT CNR) and has three years of experience at the European Commission in various roles.