Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board Recruiting Update

Hello everyone, I wanted to share an update on the new board members search. The search is progressing well. We asked for and received nominations from the board of trustees, the advisory board, WMF staff, the WMF executive team, and the community, with a total poll exceeding 70 candidates. The pipeline of nominees was extremely diverse. Our recruiting team also did an extensive search based on the role description criteria and sent in a list of candidates that had all the characteristics, skills and experience we are looking for. Having narrowed down the number in several rounds of review (basing on criteria prepared by the staff, as well as the criteria proposed by the Board Governance Committee), we are meeting with finalists to collect more information and get acquainted over this week and next. After that, all finalists will interview with Lila, and finally with our panel comprised by the BGC (and likely also the Board Chair). The BGC will decide and present recommendations of chosen candidates to the whole Board. We have weeks of work yet ahead of us, but I am happy to report that we have made great progress to date. I am copying Dariusz, our BGC chair, in case he would like to add anything also. Warm regards, Boryana _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>