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G3ict

Governance

Board of Directors

Chairperson

  • Shilpi Kapoor, CEO, BarrierBreak (incoming as of July 1st, 2025)

Directors

  • Monica Ackermann, Finance & Investment Board Committee Member
  • Daniel Aghion, Co-Founder, W2i
  • Mohammed Al-Tarawneh, Founding Chair, UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
  • Christine Forget, Treasurer
  • Akiko Ito, Executive Director, CIFAL Japan, UNITAR; Chief, Secretariat of the CRPD, UNDESA
  • Steven Lewis, Senior Legal Counsel, Capital One
  • Susan Mazrui, Director, Global Public Policy, AT&T (outgoing Board Chair as of June 30, 2025)
  • Irene Mbari-Kirika, Executive Director, inABLE
  • Mark McCusker, Finance & Investment Board Committee Chair
  • Sharon Spencer, Past Managing Director, IAAP (IAAP, A division of G3ict)

Ex-Officio

President & Director Emeritus

  • Axel Leblois, Founder, G3ict

Honorary Chairperson

  • Ambassador Luis Gallegos, President, Global Initiative on Ageing (GIA), and Chair of the Board, World Institute on Disability (WID)

Board of Advisors

The role of the Board of Advisors is to provide early thought leadership to G3ict's programs, projects, and initiatives.

Corporate Leaders

  • Adobe Systems
  • AT&T
  • Microsoft

International Advisors

  • David Berman, President, David Berman Communications; PDF/UA committee member; Chair of the Carleton University Access Network
  • David Banes, Director, Access and Inclusion, David Banes Access; Director, DATEurope
  • Seth Bravin, Director, Strategic Alliances, Accessibility, T-Mobile
  • Gerald Craddock, CEUD - National Disability Authority, Ireland
  • Alireza Darvishy, Professor, Head of the ICT Accessibility Lab, Zurich University for Applied Sciences; Center of Accessibility, Credit Suisse Group
  • David Dikter, CEO, Assistive Technologies Industry Association (ATIA)
  • Simão Ferraz de Campos Neto, Counsellor, ITU-T SG 16 International (ITU)
  • Larry Goldberg, Accessible media and technology consultant
  • Mohamed Jemni, Professor, Director of ICT, Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO), Tunisia
  • Shane Kanady, Senior Fellow, G3ict
  • Irmgarda Kasinskaite, UNESCO
  • John D. Kemp, President and CEO, Lakeshore Foundation
  • Fernando Laguarda, Faculty Director, Program on Law and Government, American University Washington College of Law
  • Dipendra Manocha, DAISY Consortium
  • Charlotte McClain-Nhlapo, The World Bank
  • Mike Paciello, Founder of WebABLE, Inc., web site consultancy
  • Victor Pineda, President, The Victor Pineda Foundation and World ENABLED
  • Debra Ruh, Founder, Ruh Global Impact
  • Katherine Seelman, former Professor Rehabilitation Science and Technology, Associate Dean of Disability Programs School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Pittsburg
  • John J. Sullivan, Senior Fellow, G3ict
  • Jonathan Thurston, G3ict Fellow, CEO, Infinite Access, Head of Accessibility, Syntegence
  • Frances West, Founder, FrancesWest&Co
  • Roxana Widmer-Iliescu, Digital Inclusion Division, BDT, International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

Observers

  • Inmaculada Placencia-Porrero, Senior Expert, Disability & Inclusion, DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, European Commission
  • Eric Zhang, Social Affairs Officer, Secretariat for the CRPD / UN DESA
  • Dónal Rice, Ireland