GSS-24 Steering Committee

The steering committee was convened to help draft the report of the GSS conclusions to WTSA-24. The committee worked through electronic means and held conference calls as required.

The Steering Committee wass chaired by Dr Rajkumar Upadhyay, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman Project Board at Centre for Development of Telematics.

The Steering Committee comprised the following members:

  • Ahmed Said, Sector Head, Policies and International Affairs at the National Telecom regulatory Authority of Egypt & Advisor to the Minister for Economic and Statistical Affairs at Ministry of Communication and information Technology
  • Rebecca Mukite, Head of Communications and Infrastructure Services, Uganda Communications Commission (UCC), Uganda (Republic of)
  • Kwame Baah-Acheamfuor, Head of Regulatory, Ministry of Communications and Digitalisation, Ghana
  • Fabio Bigi, Expert Advisor, Ministry of Enterprise and Made in Italy, Italy
  • Mihail Ion, International Affairs Expert, National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications of Romania (ANCOM), Romania
  • Nilo Pasquali, Superintendent of Planning and Regulation, Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações – ANATEL, Brazil
  • Ena Dekanic, Chair of the Working Group on Preparations for WTSA, WTDC, and WCIT, Permanent Consultative Committee I (PCC.I), CITEL (Inter-American Telecommunication Commission)
  • Hyoung Jun Kim, Research Fellow, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Korea (Republic of)
  • Heyuan Xu, Chief Expert, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT)
  • Alexey Borodin, Director, Centre for International and Scientific Technical activities, Russian Satellite Communications Company, Russian Federation
  • Bakhtiyar Mammadov, Deputy Head of Administration of the Ministry of Digital Development and Transport of the Republic of Azerbaijan
  • Emmanuel Manasseh, Regional Director, Regional Office for Africa, ITU
  • Bruno Ramos, Regional Director, Regional Office for Americas, ITU
  • Adel Darwish, Regional Director, Regional Office for Arab States, ITU
  • Atsuko Okuda, Regional Director, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, ITU
  • Natalia Mochu, Regional Director, Regional Office for CIS Region, ITU
  • Jaroslaw Ponder, Head, Europe Office, ITU
  • Bilel Jamoussi, Deputy Director, TSB, ITU
  • Cristina Bueti, Counsellor, TSB, ITU