Tracy Hackshaw is Vice Chair of the Internet Society Trinidad & Tobago Chapter. He is a graduate of the DiploFoundation's Internet Governance Capacity Building Programme in 2008 and is now a member of their Research & Teaching Faculty. Tracy participated in the ICANN Fellowship Program at the Sydney and Seoul Meetings in 2009, at Catagena in 2010 and at Prague in 2012. Additionally, he participated as an Internet Society (ISOC) Ambassador (part of the ISOC Next Generation Leaders Program) to the 2009 Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Sharm-el Sheikh; and returned as an ISOC Ambassador for the 2010 IGF in Vilnius. He also participated in the 2011 IGF in Nairobi as a DiploFoundation Emerging Leader for the Digital World. He is a national of the Republic of Trinidad & Tobago and has been educated at the 1st degree level in Sociology & Psychology via the University of the West Indies (St. Augustine) and at a graduate level in International Management at the University of London (Royal Holloway).
Professionally, Tracy is Team Lead & Chief Solution Architect in the Solution Architect Office at the National Information & Communication Technology Company Ltd. and is currently on assignment as Technology Co-ordinator to the Ministry of Science & Technology in Trinidad & Tobago.
In addition, Tracy is involved, in advisory capacity to the Government of the Republic of Trinidad & Tobagoâs representation to the ICANN Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC).
