Your full name: Herve Clement Your email address: herve.clement@orange.com Your organisation: Orange SA Your LIR RegID: fr.telecom Name of the person you wish to nominate/support: Christian Kaufmann Nominee's email address: ckaufman@akamai.com Reason for nominating the candidate: Christian owns a strong Internet expertise, being inter alia the chair of the board of the very known French Exchange Point France-IX. He is very active within the RIPE community, having been for instance the Co-chair of the MAT Working Group. As Secretary of the RIPE NCC Executive Board and more recently chairman of that Board, Christian demonstrates capacities of hard work, listening and consensus. My relationship with Christian has always been constructive and more than respectful.