Your full name: Maria Häll Your email address: maria@sunet.se Your organisation: Vetenskapsradet / SUNET Your LIR RegID: se.sunet Name of the person you wish to nominate/support: Christian Kaufmann Nominee's email address: ck@minxs.net Reason for nominating the candidate: Reason for nominating the candidate: Christian is very active in the RIPE community, where he has attended every meeting for several years and is Co-Chair of the RIPE MAT WG. In the last four years, Christian served on the RIPE NCC Executive Board as Secretary and since 2018 is the Executive Board Chairman. Christian has shown very strong and positive leadership in his role as chair of the board and I know that, both in the present situation and in upcoming times, Christians leadership, dedication and passion will be absolutely necessary for RIPE NCC.