GSR panelist and moderator biographies
Day 1, Wednesday 10 November 2010
Session 1: BUILDING TOMORROW’S DIGITAL WORLD TODAY:
IMPACT OF BROADBAND ON THE ECONOMY
Ms Mignon Clyburn, Commissioner, Federal Communications
Commission (FCC), United States
Mignon L. Clyburn was nominated as a member of the
Federal Communications Commission on June 25, 2009, and sworn in August 3, 2009.
Her term runs until June 30, 2012.
Commissioner Clyburn has a long history of public
service and dedication to the public interest. Prior to her swearing in as
Commissioner, Ms. Clyburn served for 11 years as the representative of South
Carolina’s sixth district on the Public Service Commission of South Carolina (PSC).
She was sworn in for her first term in July 1998, and was subsequently reelected
in 2002 and 2006. She served as chair of the PSC from July 2002 through June
During her tenure at the PSC, Commissioner Clyburn
actively participated in numerous national and regional state-based utility
organizations. Most recently, Ms. Clyburn served as the chair of the National
Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners’ (NARUC) Washington Action
Committee and as a member of both the association’s Audit Committee and
Utilities Market Access Partnership Board. Commissioner Clyburn is also a former
chair of the Southeastern Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (SEARUC).
Mr R.K. Arnold, Secretary, Telecom Regulatory Authority of
India, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), India
Mr. R.K. Arnold is at present Secretary, Telecom
Regulatory Authority of India where he is heading different Divisions, such as,
Fixed Networks, Mobile Networks, Converged Networks, Broadcasting and Cable
Networks, Quality of Service, Administration, Economic, Regulatory Enforcement,
Financial and Legal Divisions. These Divisions are dealing with various Telecom
Regulation which inter alia includes Unified Licensing, Spectrum Management,
Telecom Tariff, Fixed Mobile Interconnection, Consumer Interest, Rural
Telecommunications, Next Generation Networks (NGN), Direct to Home (DTH) and
Cable Television, etc.
He graduated in Electronics and Telecommunications
Engineering from University of Jabalpur (India) and joined the Indian Telecom
Service (ITS) in the year 1975, serving Department of Telecom & B.S.N.L. for
more than 34 years in various capacities. He is having a rich experience of
working in the field of Telecommunications covering the areas of Telecom
Development, Operations, Quality Assurance, Human Resource Development,
Acceptance Testing and Evaluation of Telecom Products and Networks in addition
to Telecom Regulation.
Dr. Raúl L. Katz, Adjunct
Professor, Division of Finance and Economics, and Director, Business Strategy
Research, Columbia Institute of Tele-information
Professor Katz teaches a Seminar in High Technology
Strategy in the international arena. As an international telecommunications
industry consultant, Dr. Katz has provided counsel to CEOs and other top
management of major global telecommunications, and computer companies in the
areas of business strategy, consumer/industrial marketing and general management
approaches. He is currently President of Telecom Advisory Services (www.teleadvs.com),
a boutique firm that advises clients in the interrelated fields of strategy and
regulation. He was previously a Lead Partner at Booz Allen Hamilton, where he
was a member of the firm's Leadership Team and Head of the US and Latin America
Telecommunications practices. He has published three books, over twenty articles
and regularly addresses industry fora. His book The Information Society: an
International Perspective, focusing on the deregulation trends in the worldwide
telecommunications industry was published in 1988. His second book (co-edited)
Creative Destruction: Business Survival Strategies in the Global Internet
Economy, addressing recent discontinuities in the telecommunications industry,
was published in 2000, and translated into Japanese and Chinese. His third book
The Contribution of Information and Communication Technologies to Economic
Development was published in Spain in 2009. Dr. Katz's current research
interests are in developing forward-looking perspectives of the industry
structure of the converged telecommunications and media sectors and in studying
"institutional irrational exuberance" in high technology investment. Licence in
History, University of Paris-Sorbonne, 1979; Licence in Communications Sciences,
University of Paris II; Maitrise in Political Science, University of
Paris-Sorbonne, 1980; Maitrise in Communications Sciences, University of Paris
II; MS in Communications Technology and Policy, MIT, 1981; PhD in Management and
Political Science, MIT, 1985
Session 2: 21ST CENTURY REGULATION
Mr Nicolas Curien,
Commissioner, Autorité de Régulation des Communications Electroniques et des
Postes (ARCEP), France
Born in 1950, graduated from Ecole Polytechnique
and Telecom Paris, Nicolas Curien is currently a member of the Board of ARCEP,
the French regulatory body for electronic communications and postal services.
He began his career as an assistant professor at
Telecom Paris, then as a manager at France Telecom, in charge of economic
studies. In 1986, he joined the Department of Defence as a chief economist.
In 1989, he was appointed deputy-director of the
National School for Statistics and Economic Analysis (ENSAE), within the
Department of Economy and Finance. In 1992, he was granted the chair
"Telecommunications Economics and Policy" at the Conservatoire National des Arts
et Métiers (CNAM).
He also teaches economics at the Ecole
Polytechnique, is a member of the "Académie des Technologie"s (the french
National Academy of Engineering) as well as a founding member of the
International Telecommunications Society (ITS).
He has written a number of scientific articles and
several books in the fields of industrial organization and networks economics.
Mr Pavel Dvorak, Chairman, Czech Telecommunication Office, Czech Republic
Born 1948. Studied at the Mathematic/Physical
Faculty of the Charles University in Prague, graduated from the Philosophical
Faculty of the Charles University (M.A., sociology) and achieved a PhD grade
(data banks) at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. He spent a major part of
his career in the Federal Statistical Office, focusing on the issues of the
statistical processing of data and on information technology applications. In
the 1990s he worked for information technology companies, such as APP, ICZ. In
1998-2002 he was adviser to Minister of the Czech Government. He co-authored the
State Information Policy and took part in drawing up the information society
legislation. From 2003 to 30 April 2005 he worked as advisor to management
bodies of ČESKÝ TELECOM, a.s. From 1 May 2005 he has been member of the CTO
Council. From 1 April 2006 he has been named as the Chairman of the CTO Council,
and from May 2010 he was again confirmed in his function by the Government of
the Czech Republic.
Phillips, Chief Government and Regulatory Affairs Officer, GSM Association
Tom Phillips has degrees in
Physics and Business Administration and is a Chartered Engineer with over 20
years experience in the telecoms industry. In the 1980s Tom led British
Aerospace’s satellite communications business development activities in South
In 1990, he helped start mobile
operator Orange, where he led the company’s UK licence application, and then
joined PA Consulting Group’s London Practice, where he worked for global clients
on strategy and market analysis assignments.
In 1995, Tom joined Cable &
Wireless as Strategy Director and was later appointed Group Director, Public
Policy, responsible for Cable & Wireless’ relationships with governments,
regulators and policy influencers, across their 55-country footprint.
Tom joined the GSM Association in
March 2004, as Chief Government and Regulatory Affairs Officer, where he leads
the public policy agenda with governments, on behalf of the Association’s 700+
operator members, who in turn deliver service to over 2.5 billion mobile users,
Ms Janet Hernández, President, Telecommunications
Management Group (TMG)
An attorney with 17 years of experience in the
telecommunications sector, Ms. Hernández advises domestic and international
telecommunications companies and governments on telecommunications regulatory,
commercial and transactional matters. Prior to joining TMG, Ms. Hernández was a
Partner of and headed the Global Telecommunications, Media and Technology Group
of Coudert Brothers. She also worked in the Chief Counsel’s Office of the
National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) within the
U.S. Department of Commerce. Ms. Hernández is fluent in English and Spanish.
Session 3:CONSUMER PROTECTION - MEETING THE
EXPECTATIONS OF THE CONNECTED
Mr Dražen Lučić,
Executive Director, Croatian Post and Electronic Communications Agency (HAKOM),
Mr. Dražen Lučić holds a Ph.D. Degree from the
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing at University of Zagreb,
Department of Telecommunication. His career in telecommunication industry
started in 1987 at Ericsson Nikola Tesla in Zagreb and was continued with
internationally assignments for Ericsson. In more than 20 years in the industry
he was mostly responsible for business development and sales to the leading
telecommunication operators in European Union and in Israel. He is Executive
Director of Croatian Post and Electronic Communications Agency since 2009.
Mr Pape Cire Cisse, Director
of Radiocommunications, Network and Services, ARTP, Senegal
Mr Pape Cire Cisse is also a trainer at the Dakar
l'Ecole Supérieure Multinationale des Télécommunications (ESMT) in the domains
of radio propagation in a mobile environment and in spectrum management. He
previously was responsible for engineering and spectrum frequency planing with
the telecommuncations operator SONATEL (Orange).
Mr Peter Pitsch, Director,
Communications Policy, Intel Corporation
Peter Pitsch is the Executive Director of
Communications Policy and Associate General Counsel for Intel Corporation. He is
responsible for the coordination of Intel policy surrounding communications and
electronic commerce. Prior to joining Intel, Pitsch was the president of Pitsch
Communications from 1989 to 1998 which represented telecommunication’s clients
before the FCC and Congress, provided business and regulatory planning, and
published and lectured on U.S. regulatory policy. Pitsch was the Chief of Staff
to the Chairman of the FCC from 1987 to 1989 where he advised the Chairman on
all issues before the FCC including access reforms, price caps, major tariffs,
and broadcasting. Before his move to Chief of Staff. Pitsch was Chief of Office
of Plans and Policy. His responsibilities included managing the FCC policy
office that provided recommendations on major issues such as access reforms,
major tariffs, broadcast regulation, auction and spectrum allocations.
From 1980 to 1981, Pitsch was a staff member of the
Reagan Administration Transition Team which developed recommendations for
reforming the Federal Trade Comnission with special focus on antitrust issues.
He was a senior attorney at Montgomery Ward, Inc. from 1979 to 1981. He provided
legal counsel and legislative lobbying of FTC, consumer protection, energy and
international trade matters. Prior to that, he worked for three year as an
attorney-advisor to Commissioner Calvin Collier at the Federal Trade
Commission.Mr. Pitsch received a B.A. in Economics from the University of
Chicago in 1973 and his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 1976. He
is a member of the District of Columbia Bar, the Virginia State Bar, and the
Federal Communications Bar Association.
Mr Adrian Foster, Founding
Partner, McLean Foster & Co.
Adrian Foster, MBA, CMC is a founding partner with
McLean Foster & Co and leads the firm's Telecom Regulatory Specialty Practice.
With over 15 years of related experience, he has advised regulators, operators,
suppliers, government departments and agencies involved in telecommunications
and ICT's. He is the lead author of the recently developed ITU/infoDEV ICT
Regulation Online Toolkit Module 5: Radio Spectrum Management His work has
included technical assistance and policy and programme analysis and development
for government departments and agencies.
Mr. Foster has been on extensive field assignments
in many countries including: Afghanistan, Antigua, Argentina, Germany,
Indonesia, Liberia, Malaysia, Morocco, Mexico, Pakistan, Portugal, South Africa,
Singapore, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago United Kingdom and
the United States.
Day 2, Thursday 11 November 2010
Session 4: DISPUTE RESOLUTION IN THE ICT SECTOR
Mr Cristhian Lizcano,
Executive Director of the Communication Regulatory Commission
Attorney of Universidad Javeriana, and Master of
Laws with emphasis on Economic Regulation at the London School of Economics, Mr.
Lizcano was appointed by the President of the Republic as commissioner of the
CRC since 2008. He began his career as Legal Adviser at the Telecommunications
Regulatory Commission, where he supported important projects including the
opening of Long Distance Competition and Interconnection Regime, among others.
He also acted as General Secretary of Telebucaramanga, served as adviser for
various companies, and acted as Legal Adviser of the Minister of Communications
on different projects and initiatives oriented to adapt the regulatory framework
under a converged environment and promoting competition.
Mr Satya Brata Sinha,
Chairperson, Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal, India
Mr. Justice Satya Brata Sinha, was designated as
Senior Advocate by the Patna High Court and was the first Government Advocate of
its Ranchi Bench. Elevated as Judge of Patna High Court in 1987, he was
appointed as Acting Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court in 1999 and later
as Chief Justice of the Andhra Pradesh and Delhi High Court. He was appointed
Judge of the Supreme Court of India in 2002 during which term he was also the
Executive Chairman of the National Legal Services Authority. After retirement,
he was appointed the Chairman of Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate
Tribunal and continues to hold the said office.
Dr Krishna Oolun, Chief Executive Officer, Information and
Communication Technologies Authority (ICTA), Mauritius
Krishna Oolun holds a Bachelor
in Technology from the University of Mauritius, MSc and PhD in Communication
Engineering from the University of Manchester UK, and a MBA in Information
Technology Management from Leicester University UK. He is a Chartered Engineer
of the UK Engineering Council and member of the IEEE of the USA.
Dr Oolun is presently the CEO
of the ICTA, the ICT regulator for Mauritius. He has previously served as a
Senior Lecturer at the University of Mauritius before joining the regulator in
2002 as the Director of Engineering and subsequently as the CEO since 2005.
Dr Oolun has been a
contributor to the White Paper on telecommunications for Mauritius in 1997, the
National IT Strategic Plan in 1998, the National Telecom Policy in 2004 and the
National ICT Strategic Plan in 2007. He has also served as a consultant on ICT
policy and regulatory frameworks and has worked on several international
assignments in that regards. He has also been panellist at the WTO sessions on
trades in services in Telecommunications.
Krishna Oolun is the Editor in
Chief of the on-line Journal of Engineering and Technology Research (JETR) and
has himself published extensively as a former academic researcher before joining
Dr. Eugene Juwah, Chief
Executive Officer, Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC), Nigeria
• Over 30 years experience in
Information Technology and Telecommunication, with more than 20 years experience
on executive management level.
Knowledgeable in digital exchanges, base station, data communication and
subscriber access networks construction and operations having played
coordinating roles in the set up of an ETACS, GSM and CDMA Mobile Networks in
Network Operations Director with profound practical knowledge of pricing,
billing, interconnection, licensing and regulatory affairs and network fraud
control within the Nigerian Environment.
• Holds a PhD
degree in Systems Engineering from the University Of Manchester, England
• Appointed Executive Chairman
Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) by President of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria and confirmed by the Senate in July 2010
Mr. Papa Assane Toure, Juge,
Tribunal Régional Hors Classe, Dakar, Senegal
Papa Assane Toure, est né le 28 août 1974 à Dakar (Sénégal).
Il est magistrat de formation et exerce cette fonction depuis 2002. Il est
actuellement juge au Tribunal régional Hors Classe de Dakar.
Il a également été substitut du Procureur de la
République au Tribunal Régional de Saint-Louis (ville du nord du Sénégal), avant
d’être successivement Juge au Tribunal départemental de Saint-Louis, Vice
président et Président par intérim de cette juridiction.
Il prépare depuis 2005 une thèse de Doctorat d’état
en cyberdroit pénal intitulé « Le traitement de la cybercriminalité devant le
juge : l’exemple du Sénégal ». Ses travaux doctoraux sont en phase terminale.
Sur le plan universitaire, M. Toure est Associé au
Master de droit du cyberespace africain comme tuteur (assistant en ligne).
Il a eu l’honneur de participer aux travaux de
rédaction de la loi sénégalaise du 25 janvier 2008 portant sur la
cybercriminalité, en qualité de Président du comité de rédaction de ce texte.
Cela lui a valu d’être impliqué dans tous les séminaires de sensibilisation et
de formation ayant suivi l’adoption de cette loi.
Mr Rory Macmillan,
Founding Partner, Macmillan Keck
Rory Macmillan is a Founding Partner of Macmillan
Keck, a law firm based in Geneva, Switzerland. The firm has a strong expertise
and track record in the ICT sector worldwide, advising governments, regulators,
incumbents, new entrants, investors and international institutions on corporate
and commercial transactions, regulatory and policy matters, and dispute
resolution. Mr. Macmillan led the firm's representation of a client in its
US$3.4 billion dollar licence bid in Saudi Arabia and has drafted
telecommunications laws in several countries. He has experience in most areas of
telecommunication disputes. For example, he was Chairman of an arbitration panel
dealing with the first interconnection dispute in Trinidad & Tobago, mediated
the opening of the Fijian telecommunications market to competition, has
negotiated millions of dollars of international telecommunication dispute
settlements for clients, and acted as independent expert in a dispute in
Burundi. He is regularly engaged by the World Bank to advise on regulatory
Mr. Macmillan began his practice in New York and
London with Debevoise & Plimpton. He received his LLM from the Yale Law School
(Fulbright and Rotary Scholarships), and his LLB (First Class Honours) from the
University of Edinburgh. Memberships include: New York Bar; Accredited Mediator
by the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR); WIPO listed arbitrator,
member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and; member the Electronic
Media Panel of the Communications Providers Independent Alternative Dispute
Resolution Service. He is author of numerous articles and co-author of a World
Bank book on dispute resolution.
Session 5: ICTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE: WHAT ROLE FOR
Mr Ilyas Ahmed, Chief Executive, Communications Authority of
the Maldives (CAM), Maldives
Ahmed is the Chief Executive of the Communications Authority of Maldives. Prior
to this he was the Deputy Director General at the Telecommunications Authority
of Maldives, where he headed the Department for Telecom Development,
International Coordination and Technical Regulation. Mr. Ahmed holds an MSc in
Operational Telecommunications from Coventry University UK, and BEng in
Information and Electronics from Curtin University of Australia.
Upon completion of his
Postgraduate Degree in 2001 in, he joined the Telecommunications Department of
the Ministry of Communication, Science & Technology in 2002. Since then he has
been heavily involved in the activities to restructure and develop the country’s
telecommunication sector. Prior to this, he has worked for the national
telecommunications company Dhiraagu, as the Product Manager Mobile. He was a key
member of the team that introduced GSM mobile services to the country.
Mr. Ahmed has over 20 years of experience in the
field of communications. With his extensive knowledge of ICT, he has worked in
many development initiatives of the country. Mr. Ahmed has also attended and
actively participated in numerous regional and international events and
conferences on ICT. He has delivered key note addresses and chaired meeting
sessions at many international conferences.
Mr Oscar Manikunda Musata, Director General, l'Autorité
de Régulation de la Poste et des Télécommunications du Congo (ARPTC), Dem. Rep.
Mr. Manicunda has various degrees
in Economics and Telecommunications, including the BADGE (Bilan d'Aptitude
délibré par les Grandes Ecoles Francaises) from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. He
actively participates in the work of several regional and international
organizations, such as FRATEL, CRASA, ARTAC and UAT. In ITU, he also served as
Rapporteur for Question 7/2-1 on Universal Access to Broadband Services.
Mr Paarock Vanpercy,
Director General, National Communications Authority, Ghana
Mr. Paarock Asuman Vanpercy was appointed as
Director-General of the National Communications Authority (NCA) on 1st June
Paarock brings to the NCA, a career in investment
banking, corporate management and administrative practices dating back some
twenty five (25) years. His career includes positions with Hacker Young
Chartered Accountants (UK), Unilever Ghana Ltd, Merchant Bank (GH) Ltd as Head
of Corporate Finance, Venture Fund Management Company Ltd as General Manager and
the Commonwealth Development Corporation as Country Head. Over the period, he
managed diverse and multi-functional teams with varying skills set.
Paarock is presently the Chairman of CAL Bank Ltd.
He is also Chairman of CAL Asset Management Company Ltd, and holds directorships
at Ghana Leasing Company Ltd, Liberian Bank for Development & Investment, Sierra
Leone Investments Ltd and Afri Holdings Ltd in Mauritius.
He holds a degree in Philosophy from the University
of Ghana and is a Chartered Accountant by profession, having qualified in
England where he gained considerable experience working on assignments for a
variety of companies including companies listed on the London Stock Exchange.
He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered
Accountants in England & Wales, and was until his appointment the Managing
Director of AIMAC, a financial investment and management company focused on
acquiring and managing equity investments.
Miguel Vélez Núñez, Director
of Markets Regulation, CONATEL, Honduras
Complutense de Madrid
Universidad Autónoma de Honduras-UNAH
Nacional de Telecomunicaciones, CONATEL
Director de Regulación Económica y Mercados, Global Consulting
General, Amnet De Honduras
Director De Telefonía
Alemania (Deutsche Telekom)
Subgerente De Estrategia Corporativa
Director Del Programa Telefonía Para Todos
Mr Stephen Young,
Stephen Young is the founding director of
www.ICTandClimateChange.com Ltd, which he set up in 2007, and is also working on
other web-based initiatives to help reduce CO2 emissions.
Stephen is currently contracted as a Senior Telecom
Expert to the International Telecommunication Union, the specialized agency of
the United Nations for ICTs. Stephen is authoring a study on the relationship
between ICTs and climate change and the role for regulators. Deliverables are a
chapter in the ITU's Trends in Telecommunication Reform 2010, and a presentation
of the main findings at the ITU's 10th Global Symposium for Regulators, November
In addition to his commercial activities, Stephen
is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at Brighton Business School, University of
Brighton, where he teaches undergraduates and postgraduates, specialising in
behavioural economics - an emerging branch of economics which explains why human
behaviour may not fit conventional economic models, and how this understanding
can help bring about positive behavioural change.
Before founding ICTandClimateChange.com, Stephen
was a Principal Consultant and 'Thought Leader' on climate change and ICT at
independent analyst and consulting firm, Ovum, which he joined in January 1996.
He was lead author of five Ovum telecoms strategy reports which recorded sales
of over £1.6 million. These included the best-selling "The Bandwidth Explosion",
with its analysis which punctured the myth promulgated by network builders, "If
you build it, they will come." Before Ovum, Stephen was Manager, Public Policy
for the UK's main fixed line competitor to BT, Mercury Communications Ltd, where
he advised on policy and relations with the company's European and UK
stakeholders. These included the European Commission, Europe's Public
Telecommunications Operators (via ETNO), and Mercury's UK public affairs
programme with elected and appointed officials and think tanks.
Session 6: DEALING WITH CYBERTHREATS
Mr S. A. M’Poué,
Secretaire-Général, Agence des Télécommunications de Côte d'Ivoire (ATCI), Côte
Ingénieur des télécommunications, diplômé de
l’Institut National des Télécommunications (INT) d’Evry (France), promotion
Intègre l’Office National des
Télécommunications (ONT), alors seul opérateur du secteur, devenu Côte
d’Ivoire Télécom depuis sa privatisation en Février 1997 ;
Occupe respectivement dans cette structure, les
postes de : Chef de Service des Installations Privées, Sous-directeur de
l’Energie, Sous-directeur des Télécommunications Nationales ;
Entre chez le régulateur, l’Agence des
Télécommunications de Côte d’Ivoire (ATCI), en août 1997, où il est
successivement : Conseiller Technique Télécom du Directeur Général,
Directeur des Radiocommunications, Directeur de la Réglementation et des
Affaires Juridiques ;
Nommé Secrétaire Général (Directeur Général
Adjoint) de l’ATCI depuis décembre 2007.
Dr Ekwow Spio-Garbrah,
Chief Executive of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO)
Dr Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, Chief Executive of the
Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) since September 2003, has
twenty-five years of unique experience in advising governments, multinational
corporations, international banks and multilateral organisations. He was Ghana’s
Ambassador to the United States and to Mexico ((1994 to 1997), where he set a
number of records in strengthening US-Ghana relations, especially in promoting
private sector investment in Ghana. Minister of Communications (1997 to 98)
Acting Minister of Mines & Energy (1999), Minister of Education (1998 to 2001),
a member of UNESCO’s Executive Board until January 2001 and a member of a group
of communications experts that advised the Director General on the future of
Dr Spio-Garbrah was Head of Communications of the
US $33 billion-dollar African Development Bank, then headquarted in Abidjan
(Ivory Coast) from 1991 to 1994; an External Relations Officer of the
International Finance Corporation (World Bank Group) in Washington DC from 1988
to 1991); a mortgage banker in New Jersey (1987-88); an advertising sales
executive with South-western Bell (1985 to 1987); and Chairman, Middle East and
Africa Group of the renowned global public relations firm, Hill & Knowlton (1979
to 1985). In the latter position, he counselled a number of leading global banks
on their financial relations strategies, and advised the governments of
Indonesia, Turkey, Austria and Holland on their investment and export promotion
programmes. At the age of 24, in the mid 70s, he was acting General Manager of
Ghana Advertising & Marketing, Ghana’s second largest advertising agency, where
he initiated and executed many advertising campaigns on behalf of a long list of
Dr Ekwow Spio-Garbrah performed his National
Service as an English teacher at Adisadel College from 1973 to 1974. He has
conducted business, communication, government and diplomatic operations in more
than thirty countries in all continents.
Prof. Ibrahim Kadi, Senior
Advisor, CITC, Saudi Arabia
Prof. Ibrahim Kadi is Senior Advisor at the
Communication & Information Technology Commission (CITC), the ICT regulatory
authority in Saudi Arabia. He has over 30 years of experience in academic,
professional, industrial and regulatory fields. His areas of expertise include
Communication engineering, Knowledge Economy, Information Security, and
Socio-economic Impact of Technology.
He was a Professor of Communications at King Saud University (1984-2004). He
served as the ITU Representative to the Arab States and Head of the ITU Arab
Regional Office (2002-2003). Prof. Kadi was Vice President for Engineering and
R&D of Advanced Electronics Company (1991-1994) and served as an Executive
Consultant (1994-2004). Prof. Kadi currently serves as an independent Member of
the Board Risk Management Committee at the Saudi Stock Exchange Co. (Tadawul),
He is a member of the Advisory Board for Academic Accreditation, of KSU College
Engineering. Prof. Kadi performed consultancy services to government agencies,
private sector and international organizations.
Prof. Kadi holds a Ph. D. from Stanford University (1984), an M.Sc. from the
University of Michigan (1984), and B.Sc. from Riyadh University (1978), all in
Prof. Kadi has published over a 120 scientific papers, general-interest and
literary works, and spoke at numerous national and international conferences. He
is a member of the Saudi Computer Society, International Association for
Cryptologic Research, Saudi Association for Mathematical Sciences, and Saudi
Economics Association. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.
Dr. Marco Gercke, Director,
Cybercrime Research Institute
Dr. Marco Gercke is Director of the Cybercrime
Research Institute (Institut fuer Medienstrafrecht) - an independent research
institute dealing with legal aspects of computer and Internet crime.
Holding a PhD in criminal law with a focus on
Cybercrime he is for several years teaching law related to Cybercrime and
European Criminal Law at the University of Cologne and is visiting lecturer for
International Criminal Law at the University of Macau. The focus of his research
is on international aspects of law related to Cybercrime. In this respect he is
working as an expert for several international organisations among them the
Council of Europe, the European Union, the United Nations and the International
Telecommunication Union. One key element of the research are the challenges
related to the fight against Cybercrime and the differences in developing a
legal response in common law and civil law systems. The latest researches
covered the activities of terrorist organisations in the Internet, legal
response to Identity Theft, Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing activities
involving Internet technology and the responsibility of ISPs.
Marco is a frequent national and international
speaker and author of more than 70 publications related to the topic Cybercrime.
In addition to articles and books he published several studies including
comparative law analysis for the Council of Europe. His latest 225-page
publication on Cybercrime is currently translated to all UN languages. Marco was
co-chair of the working group set up by the Council of Europe to support the
drafting of the Guidelines for the cooperation between law enforcement and
internet service providers against cybercrime adopted at the 2008 Octopus
Conference and member of the ITU High Level Expert Group. He is member of the
German Bar and Secretary of the Criminal Law Department of the German Society
for Law and Informatics.
Session 7: LIVING THE INFORMATION SOCIETY
Col. Dr. Natee Sukonrat,
Commissioner, National Telecommunications Commission (NTC), Thailand
Colonel Natee Sukonrat, Ph.D., is the Commissioner
of the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC), Thailand. Prior to this, he
has served several important roles. In 1999-2001, he started his career as a
senior engineering at Qualcomm Inc., San Diego, CA, USA. He then moved back to
Bangkok and served as senior engineer at the Directorate of Joint Communications
for the Royal Thai Armed Forces from 2001 to 2009. In 2001-2004, he was also one
of the advisors of the iPSTAR Satellite Project of the Shin Satellite
From 2004-2006, Col. Natee was a Chairman of the
CDMA2000 1X-EVDO Project Steering Committees, CAT Telecom Public Company
Limited. He then served as a Board of Directors and became an Acting CEO of the
TOT Public Company Limited in 2006 and 2007 respectively. From 2008- December
2009, Col. Natee started his career at the NTC as the Chairman of the Working
Group on Communication Radio and the Radio and Television Broadcasting
Sub-commissioner. As being one of the key commissioners at the NTC, Colonel
Natee has pioneered several important projects. For instance, he has served as a
chairman of the 3G committee, which is attempting to grant spectrum licenses for
the Provision of IMT Mobile Phone Service in the Frequency Band of 2.1 GHz.
As the same time, Col. Natee is also a chairman of
the Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) committee. Colonel Natee graduated with a
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (gold medal) from Chulachomklao
Royal Military Academy, Thailand. He has done his Master of Science and Ph.D. in
Electrical Engineering from the College of Engineering, University of South
Florida, Tampa, FL, USA. He has also completed a Certificate Programme from the
Thai Institute of Directors, Bangkok, Thailand.
Mr Jean Louis Beh Mengue, Director General, Agence de
Régulation des Télécommunications, Cameroun
Monsieur Beh Mengue est Directeur General de l’ART du Cameroun depuis 1999.
Administrateur dans poste et Télécommunications. Il a longemps servi comme SG du
MINPOSTEL. Sa parfaite connaissance du secteur dans Télécom lui a permis de mené
a bien la politique de partage de infrastructure au Cameroun.
Mr Philippe Metzger,
Deputy Director, Office Fédéral de la Communication (OFCOM), Switzerland
Philipp Metzger qualified as a Swiss attorney in
1992 and holds a degree of Master of Arts from the College of Europe. He
practiced commercial law in major firms in Geneva and London. Thereafter, he
held several positions at the European Free Trade Association in Brussels and
Geneva, mostly dealing with the EEA. After having worked as a Senior Corporate
Counsel for the EMEA customer advocacy operations of a leading American IT
corporation in Amsterdam, he returned to EFTA as Director of the Trade Relations
Division. He has been Vice-Director and Head of the Telecom Services Division at
OFCOM (Switzerland) since 2007.
Mr Rafael Eslava Herrada,
Head of Unit of Prospective and Regulation, COFETEL, Mexico
Mr. Eslava is a Lawyer from Universidad
Iberoamericana and currently holds the possition of Head of Unit of Prospective
and Regulation at the Mexican Regulator. His responsibilities include the
proposals of regulatory instruments to the Board of the Commission in the core
subjects of regulation, such as interconnection, spectrum management, tariff
regulation and standards. He is also in charge of the prospective regulation
initiative which aims at identifying future technological developments that may
have an impact on regulation.
Rafael has a long career at the Federal
Telecommunications Commission in which he has gained an extensive knowledge of
all the aspects surrounding the activities in which the Commission in involved.
Mr John Alden, Vice
President, Freedom Technologies Inc.
Mr. Alden has more than 12 years’ experience in
telecommunications policy fields, including spectrum management. He has provided
policy and technical guidance to DoD on telecommunications and network
contingency support and migration planning for current and future humanitarian
missions and post-conflict situations, and notably advised DoD on spectrum
management reform and development in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere in the
Mr. Alden has extensive international regulatory
experience. At the World Radiocommunication Conference 2007 (WRC-07), Mr. Alden
served as media relations liaison for the U.S. Delegation. Mr. Alden has also
served the International Telecommunication Union as a regulatory expert,
including as rapporteur for the ITU’s Global Symposium for Regulators in
2003-2004. Since 2000, he has been the editor and author of the ITU’s Trends in
Telecommunication Reform, which is the major annual publication for the Sector
Reform Unit of the ITU’s Development Bureau. He has advised the World Bank on
spectrum management issues in developing economies. During the 1990s, Mr. Alden
was Senior Editor of the telecommunications policy journal Telecommunications
Day 3, Friday 12 November 2010
Session 8: MEASURING REGULATORY EFFICIENCY
Mr Tomas Barakauskas,
Director of the Communications Regulatory Authority of the Republic of Lithuania
In 2001, Mr. Barakauskas was appointed to lead the
newly established telecommunications regulatory authority by the President of
the Republic of Lithuania. In 2006, Mr. Barakauskas was reappointed as the
Director of the Communications Regulatory Authority for a second term.
Since 2001, Mr. Barakauskas has been leading the
new regulatory institution in the challenging liberalization period and since
then has been working towards transition to the new regulatory framework and
Lithuanian ICT market opening for new market players and new technologies. Mr.
Barakauskas brought to the new post extensive knowledge of telecommunications
and management as a result of his earlier experience.
Since 1992, he has been holding senior executive
positions in ICT companies, including the post of Vice president of the company
Fima, Director of Lucent Technologies office for the Baltic countries (AT&Т),
Director general of the company Precizika. Tomas Barakauskas was awarded the
Master of Science degree in Applied Mathematics by Vilnius University, Faculty
of Mathematics, in 1992.
Prof. Milan Jankovic,
Director, Republic Agency for Electronic Communications (RATEL), Serbia
DR Milan Jankovic, IEEE member, received the B.Sc.
(1975), M.Sc. (1990) and Ph.DEE (1999) degrees from the University of Belgrade,
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Department of Telecommunication. After
fourteen years in the telecommunication industry, responsible for introducing
new technologies and products, he joined the Community of Yugoslav PTT, in 1990,
as Project leader in R&D Department responsible for development and
implementation of appropriate access network architectures. He was a member of
three EURESCOM Projects "Implementation Frameworks for Integrated Wireless -
Optical Access Networks", "UMTS Radio Access" and "Open Service Access for 3G
Mobile Networks". From December 2002 to March 2006 he was Director General of
the Community of Yugoslav PTT. For Assistant Professor in Department of
Telecommunication Dr Jankovic was elected on University of Belgrade, Faculty of
Electrical Engineering. He has published more than 130 papers in Proceedings of
International and Domestic Conferences and International (IEEE Communication
Magazine) and Domestic Magazines. He is coauthor of the book "Access Networks".
He is now with the Republic Agency for Electronic Communication of the Republic
of Serbia on position Director.
Ms Tamir Ukhnaa, Director
General, Regulatory Department, Communications Regulatory Commission of
Education and Academic degrees:
Doctorate in Management, Academy of Management,
Master of Management, Academy of Management,
Master of Engineering in Telecommunications,
Mongolian technical University, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Diploma for Telecommunications Engineer,
Telecommunications Institute, Novosibirsk, Russia
Engineer, Senior Engineer, Mongolian
Expert, Senior Expert, Director, Director
General, Regulatory Department, Communications Regulatory & Inspectorate
Council, Communications Regulatory Commission
Mr Joseph Nana, Member of the
Council of Regulation, Autorité de Régulation des Communications Electroniques (ARCE),
Mr. Nana is a Member of the Council of Regulation
of the Electronic Communications Regulatory Authority and Advisor to the
He previously was Director of Administrative
Transmission Network within the (Ministry of) Ministère de l’Administration
Territoriale et de la Décentralisation (DIRAT/MATD).
He also was Directeur of Trasnsmissions and IT
within the (Ministry of Security) Ministère de la Sécurité (DTI/DGPN).
Ecole Supérieure Multinationale des
Télécommunications ESMT de Dakar : Diplôme d’ingénieur des Travaux des
Ecole Supérieure Multinationale des
Télécommunications de Dakar : Certificat CISCO CCNA;
Ecole Supérieure Polytechnique de Dakar (département
génie informatique / UCAD) : diplôme de Mastère Téléinformatique.
Mr Daniel Leza, Vice
President, Legal and Regulatory
Mr. Leza, an attorney, is a regulatory specialist
with expertise in the areas of competition law and regulation. He has
substantial experience in the areas of regulatory reform initiatives, radio
spectrum assignment processes and licensing, anticompetitive conduct and mergers
and acquisitions in the communications sector, and has advised service providers
and regulators on such matters in Latin America, Asia, and Europe. He has served
at the Legal Counsel's Office of the Comisión Nacional de Telecomunicaciones of
Venezuela. Mr. Leza is fluent in Spanish and English and reads Portuguese.