Curriculum Vitae - Mr. Oscar Robles
Oscar Robles, a national of Mexico, is a Names Council Member for the ccTLD constituency. He currently works as the NIC-Mexico Administrative Manager and Chief of the Internet and Registration Services Center, in the Monterrey Institute of Technology. Mr. Robles also co-teaches the "e-commerce Legal Framework" course, in their Virtual University.
He has participated in diverse forums in Mexico and Latin America with talks on "Internet Governance", "Domain Names and Intellectual Property", and "Internet Growth in Mexico and Latin America".
During the first semester of 1998 Mr. Robles participated in the ICANN Membership Advisory Council. He is a co-founder of LACTLD - the Latin America and Caribbean Country Code Top-Level Domain Organization - which currently groups 20 ccTLDs from the region. He is also a board member of ENRED, the Latin American Networks Forums, which represents not-for profit networks in the region. He is a Board member of ISOC's Mexican chapter and has been an ISOC member since 1996.
He served as an alternate in the experts group convened by WIPO in 1997 in the context of the first Internet Domain Name Process.
Mr. Robles has been working on the DNS governance issues since 1995 when he became the technical manager for NIC-Mexico. Then in 1996 he participated in the IAHC process that resulted in the gTLD-MoU (which NIC-Mexico signed), and was a Policy Advisory Body member. In 1997 he became the NIC-Mexico administrative contact. He has actively participated in the IFWP process and the DNSO formation, hosting the DNSO Monterrey Meeting.
Mr. Robles holds a Bachelor degree in Computer Systems Engineering, and a Masters degree in Information Technologies Management, from Monterrey Institute of Technology.