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The Advisory Board of the Wikimedia Foundation was approved in 2006, and formed at the start of 2007.
The Advisory Board is an international network of experts who have agreed to give the Foundation meaningful help on a regular basis in many different areas, including law, organizational development, technology, policy, and outreach. Their abilities, experience, and knowledge were selected for how they complement a particular Foundation project, or the organization as a whole.
The Board advises the Board of Trustees in its strategic decision-making process. Sometimes questions will be posed to the whole group, sometimes individual members will be consulted. They share an active dialog with a Board of Trustees. They are chosen not as a "list of names", but as a group of people we intend to interact with regularly.
The Board is made up of twenty members and is chaired by Angela Beesley, a former member of the Wikimedia Board of Trustees.