Speaker Biographies
Speakers
Speakers
Kanstantsin Shulhan
Minister, Ministry of Communications and Informatization of the Republic of Belarus
Shulgan Konstantin Konstantinovich was born on July 11, 1965 in the town of Bereza, Brest Region, Belarus.
In 1984 he graduated from the Minsk State Auto-Mechanical College, specializing in the operation and maintenance of numerically controlled machines.
In 1989 he graduated from the Minsk Higher Engineering School of Anti-Aircraft Missile Defense (Faculty of Communications and Automated Control Systems).
From 1989 to 1991 he performed military service in the USSR State Technical Commission.
From 1991 to June 2008 he held various positions at the State Center for Information Security.
From 2008 to August 17, 2018 - military service in officer positions in the Operational and Analytical Center (OAC) under the Aegis of the President of Belarus; from April 2016 - as the Deputy Head of the OAC under the Aegis of the President of Belarus.
On August 18, 2018, he was appointed Minister of Communications and Informatization of the Republic of Belarus.
Dmitry Shedko
First Deputy Minister , Ministry of Communications and Informatization of the Republic of Belarus
Education: Higher. In 2001 graduated from Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics; in 2005 – Academy of Public Administration under aegis of the President of the Republic of Belarus.
1997 – 2002 – Lead Specialist, Assistant to First Secretary, Head of Social and Economic Issues Department of Central Committee of Belarusian Patriotic Youth Union, Minsk
2002 – 2005 – Assistant to Director General, Lead Specialist of Closed Joint Stock Company “TKD Unispektr”, Minsk
2005 – 2011 – Executive Secretary, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Editor-in-Chief “Planeta” Magazin, Minsk
2011 – 2014 – Deputy Minister of Information of the Republic of Belarus
From February 2014 to the present date – First Deputy Minister of Communications and Informatization of the Republic of Belarus
Albert Nalbandian
Chairman, RCC WG on WRC-19
Currently (since 2002) Albert Nalbandian is the Adviser to Minister of Transport, Communications and IT of the Republic of Armenia.
Armenian delegate at ITU Plenipotentiary Conferences (2002, 2006, 2010) and ITU Radiocommunication Conferences (1993 – 2015, at WRC-03 and WRC-07 - as Committee Chairman, WRC-12 – as Vice-Chairman), Chairman of the ITU-R Conference Preparatory Meeting for WRC-12).
He is actively participating in the RCC work (Council of the Heads of Administrations, Commission on Spectrum management, etc).
From 1985 to 2002, Mr. Nalbandian was a Counsellor of the CCIR and later since 1993 of the ITU Radiocommunication Bureau and was responsible for the work of ITU-R Study Group 1 “Spectrum management”, ITU-R Study Group 7 “Science services” and preparation for radiocommunication conferences (CPM) held in 1995, 1997, 2000 and 2003. During the 1985 - 2001 Albert assisted 50 ITU-R Chairmen in preparing, organizing and conducting more than 180 meetings.
Albert Nalbandian prepared and published a number of articles and did presentations on different aspects of radiocommunications.
1965 – 1985 - Deputy of the Head of Department on satellite communications and broadcasting of the Moscow Radio Research and Development Institute (NIIR)
1960 - 1965 - Moscow Telecommunication Institute
Engineer on radio communications and broadcasting
Nurudin Mukhitdinov
Director General, Executive committee of the Regional Commonwealth in the Field of Communications (RCC)
N. Mukhitdinov was born on 18 March 1959 in the city of Kurgan-Tyube, Republic of Tajikistan.
In 1981 he graduated from the Tashkent Electrotechnical Communications Institute, Department of Radiocommunication and Radio Broadcasting and after that worked as an engineer in the Technical Division of the Electrotecnical Communications Administration.
From 1987 to 1995 he occupied different executive positions. In July of 1995 he was appointed Minister of Posts and Telecommunications of the Republic of Tajikistan and he worked at this post for 8 years.
In 2003 he was nominated to the office of the RCC Executive Committee Director General by Communications Administrations of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Tajikistan and was elected to this post unanimously.
In 2007 he was elected to the post of the RCC Executive Committee Director General for the second time.
N.N. Mukhitdinov working at present as Director General takes active part in solving topical tasks facing the Commonwealth of developing information-communication technologies and communications which promotes strengthening and further development of the integration
processes of the CIS countries on entry into the global information society.
Services of N.N. Mukhitdinov in strengthening and developing the Commonwealth of Independent States were twice awarded with the Certificate of the CIS Heads of Government Council in 2001 and 2006. N.N. Mukhitdinov was awarded Certificate of Merit of the CIS IPA for active participation in activities of the Interparliamentary Assembly and its bodies and for a contribution to the friendship between the peoples of the CIS member states. He renders assistance to development and strengthening of regional organizations’ role in the sphere of mutually beneficial cooperation at the major forums of the International
Telecommunication Union and Universal Postal Union. Candidate of Economic Sciences. Married. Has four children.
Kirill Oparin
Head of Regional Office, ITU
Mr. Kirill Oparin was born in the city of Vladimir (Russia) on 20 November 1973.
In 1990, Kirill Oparin graduated from secondary school № 42 of the city of Nikolayev (Ukraine). The same year, he entered Bauman Moscow State Technical University and got a master’s degree in the field of radio electronic systems in 1996 with certification of radio engineer.
Mr. Oparin has over 20 years of experience in the sphere of information and communications technologies, including over 15 years of team leadership experience.
Mr. Oparin started his professional career in Ericsson Corporation in 1996, and over 15 years, he worked his way up from Engineer, Mobile System Support Department to Head, Custom Service Support, Central Asia and Caucasus.
From 2011 to 2013, Mr. Oparin was employed with Nokia Siemens Networks Russia as Director for Transformation and Development, Managed Services Department.
The last few years, Mr. Oparin worked as Deputy Director, International Cooperation Department, Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation and was responsible for interaction with ICT-specialized international organizations (ITU, RCC, APEC, ICANN, OECD, CEPT) in the field of satellites, RF, Internet governance, e-commerce, standardization, and regional development.
Since May 2017, Mr. Oparin has been heading the International Telecommunication Union Area Office based in Moscow.
Married with two children.
Speaks Russian, Ukrainian, and English.
Alexandre Kholod
Vice Chair for WRC-19 Preparation, CEPT
Dr. Alexandre Kholod is Head of International Frequency Planning at the Swiss Federal Office of Communications OFCOM. Upon joining OFCOM in 2001, he had been managing different national and international tasks related to the analogue switch-off, introduction of digital broadcasting services and implementation of the digital dividend. Since 2012, his responsibilities cover the preparation of the Swiss positions for World Radiocommunication Conferences and international satellite coordination.
Alexandre has assumed various chairing and drafting tasks in both CEPT and ITU. He serves currently as Vice-chairman of CEPT Conference Preparatory Group and Chairman of CPG Project Team D.
Alexandre holds a PhD degree in mathematics and physics from the Belarussian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics and a Dr. Habilitation degree from the Aix-Marseille University.
Stanislav Kizima
ITU Expert & Scientific Consultant, Radio Research and Development Institute
ITU expert. Doctor of technical Sciences. Awarded with honorary sign "Engineering glory of Russia"
Since 2013 Dr. Stanislav Kizima is Deputy Director General R&D Company “Vector” (tools and measurement systems).
For a long time he was the scientific leader and active participant in R&D on issues of technologies of management of the radiofrequency spectrum, including the technological systems to ensure the use of the radio spectrum at the national level.
He is a member of the working group of the UN International Committee on global navigation satellite systems (ICG).
Author of more than 70 scientific articles, monographs, inventions and reports.
Nikolay Varlamov
Member, RRB, ITU
Nikolay Varlamov has worked more than 17 years in the field of spectrum management at the national and international levels. He was nominated as ITU-R CPM Chapter Reporter on satellite issues in 2015. He participated at WRC-03, -07, -12, -15 and was responsible for satellite and terrestrial issues. Mr. Varlamov actively participates in RCC preparation to WRCs and spectrum management issues and he is a Vice Chairman of RCC WG WRC-19/AR-19.
Sahiba Hasanova
Member, RRB, ITU
Sahiba Hasanova was born in Kalbajar, Republic of Azerbaijan.
She received master’s degree in Radiotechnology and Communication from the Azerbaijan Technical University.
Currently Expert in Satellite frequency coordination at the the Ministry of Transport, Communications and High Technologies of the Republic of Azerbaijan (MTCHT).
Sahiba Hasanova is vice-chairperson of ITU-R Study Group 4 (Satellite Services) and member of the Frequency working Party of ITSO.
She is a member of the Telecommunication section of Scientific and Technical Council of MTCHT and member of the Working Party of the Council for Space Affairs of the MTCHT.
She participated at WRC, ITU Council, RCC and CEPT conferences and other high-level meetings and summits on behalf of the Azerbaijan Communications Administration.
Sahiba Hasanova has been awarded “Taraggi“ Medal (“Medal of Progress”) by President of the Republic of Azerbaijan for special contributions in the sphere of telecommunications in Azerbaijan and 2 honorary certificate by MTCHT.
She is engaged in scientific activities and has 9 published scientific articles and 2 tutorials.
Sergey Pastukh
Chairman of ITU-R SG 1, FSUE, NIIR, Russia
• More than 25 year experience in spectrum management, EMC analysis, simulation of interference environment for space and terrestrial systems, radio monitoring, automation of frequency coordination and notification process, frequency planning for mobile and fixed services, development of automated spectrum management systems;
• More than 15-year experience in CEPT and ITU activity. Participation in ECC, WG FM, CPG including various PTs, ITU-R SG1 and its Working Parties and Task Groups, ITU-R SG4;
• In ITU was elected as a Chairman of ITU-R Study Group 1 “Spectrum management & Radiomonitoring” (2012-up-to-now) and Chairman of ITU-R Working party 1B “Spectrum management including economic aspects” (2008-2012);
• In CEPT was elected as Chairman of CEPT/WGFM “Frequency management” (2008-2014) and Vice - Chairman of Electronic communications committee (2014-up to now);
• More than 160 papers on spectrum management, EMC analysis, radio network planning, etc. published in Russian scientific and technical journals.
Karlis Bogens
Head, Fixed and Mobile Services Division, Radiocommunication Bureau of ITU
Karlis Bogens has more than 25 years of experience in radiocommunications. He is an expert in the international regulatory frameworks and processes of terrestrial radiocommunication services. Karlis Bogens has extensive experience in the application of the Radio Regulations, the work of World Radiocommunication Conferences since 1995 as well as ITU-R Working Parties and Study Groups. He has served as secretary of the BR of Working Groups that dealt with the agenda items related to terrestrial services in CPMs and WRCs. He has participated in numerous spectrum management meetings of APT, CEPT and RCC countries.
Karlis Bogens is also deeply involved in collaboration with IMO and IALA on spectrum management for maritime radiocommunications. He serves as a co-secretary of the Joint IMO/ITU Experts Group since 2008.
Prior to joining the ITU, Karlis Bogens worked for the Administration of Latvia, where he managed various development projects, including on improvements for the national radiomonitoring system, establishment of the National Radio Allocation Table as well as actively participated in the work of the ITU and CEPT. Karlis Bogens obtained the PhD in radiocommunications in 2002 from the Technical University of Riga.
Dzmitry Korzun
Head of Spectrum, Ministry of Communications and Information of the Republic of Belarus
Work experience:
1990-2006 Service in the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus Official duties and responsibilities: RF planning and provision of the electromagnetic compatibility of radio electronic devices.
2006-2011 Secretary of the State Radio Frequency Commission under the Security Council of the Republic of Belarus. since 2011 The Ministry of Communications and Informatization of the Republic of Belarus, Head of the Radio Frequency Spectrum Regulation Department.
Official duties and responsibilities: development and implementation of policy for planning, allocation and effective use of the radio spectrum by radio-electronic devices and services, development of normative legal acts, participation in the maintenance of activity of the State Radio Frequency Commission under the Security Council of the Republic of Belarus, preparation proposals for the international frequency coordination of land and satellite systems, development draft position of the Administration of the Republic of Belarus for WRC of ITU and other international meetings, relationship with BR of ITU.
Vadim Poskakukhin
Co Author of Strategy for 5G, LTE Union
Mr. Poskakukhin is an expert in Russian mobile industry, being involved in many national and international efforts on spectrum harmonization for IMT systems. For almost 15 years he has been working as part of NIIR, a national think-tank for spectrum matters, on mobile communications development in Russia, as well as participating in the activities related to short range devises, PMR and fixed service. He has also a long experience in ITU-R, ECC and RCC on different agenda items and topics related to IMT. Currently, he is working with LTE Union (an association of major Russian MNOs) on a timely deployment of 5G systems in a complex and tricky spectrum landscape of the Russian Federation.
Timur Kadyrov
Engineer in the Space Services Department (SSD), Radiocommunication Bureau, ITU
Timur Kadyrov is Radiocommunication Engineer in the Space Services Department (SSD) at the Radiocommunication Bureau of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), in Geneva (Switzerland). Before joining ITU in 2010, he has been involved in issues related international regulation of orbit‐spectrum use for more than 10 years. He received Doctorate Degree in Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics in 2005 with research focused on complex assessment of electromagnetic compatibility between non‐geostationary satellites systems.
Jozef Svrcek
Director, Martes Specure International
Jozef Svrcek is a director of Specure GmbH, based in Austria, Europe, with 5 years of spectrum auction consulting experience and over 16 years in the information technology and telecom industries, with a focus on project and infrastructure management.
Prior to joining Specure, Jozef worked for Deloitte as a senior consultant, specialising in the information technology related risks. Earlier in his career, he was an IT project manager for a global pharmaceutical company Bayer – Schering based in Berlin and Leverkusen, Germany.
Jozef has provided technology and consulting services for telecom auctions in the Slovak Republic in 2013, Czech Republic in 2012, 2013 and 2015. He was the team leader at the most recent auction in Podgorica, Montenegro (CCA frequency auction in 800 MHz, 900MHz, 1800MHz, 2 GHz and 2.6 GHz).
Jozef holds a Master’s degree in Enterprise Systems Implementation from Cranfield University, UK and a Master’s degree in Musicology from Comenius University, Slovakia.
Richard Womersley
Director of Spectrum Services, LS Telcom
Richard is Director of Spectrum Services for LS telcom. He has 20 over years consulting and business experience working in the radio spectrum management, public telecommunications, digital broadcasting and satellite industries. He has worked for regulators, network operators, financiers, governments and end-users on issues covering national and international policy; regulation and its impact; pricing, auctions and licensing; cost modelling and tariff setting; planning and consultation; network specification and procurement; and digital switch-over. His work has been international in nature having taken him to every continent except Antarctica. Richard is also an experienced trainer having been running courses on spectrum management and policy for over 15 years.
In addition to providing consultancy advice and training, Richard’s career has embraced roles in a military communications company, as a transmission manager for BBC World Service and business manager for the UK’s largest broadcast infrastructure provider ntl: (now Arqiva) giving him a broad perspective on telecommunications and broadcast technologies and industries, their commercialisation and their regulation
Alexandre Vassiliev
Scientific Consultant on Management of Radio-Frequency Spectrum and Satellite Orbit, FSUE, NIIR
• More than 40 year experience in electromagnetic compatibility analyses, equipment modelling, radio-frequency spectrum management/satellite management and radio regulations, modification and application of the Radio Regulations;
• 22 years work (1989-2010) in the ITU IFRB secretariat/Radiocommunication Bureau (an engineer, councellor of Study Groups 3, 4, 7 and Working Party 5B, the ITU-R Focal Point on the use of radiocommunications for prevention of further climate change and in emergency situations);
• 20 years work (1970-1989) in the Leningrad Branch of the Radio Research and Development Institute – LONIIR (an engineer, a head of sector, the deputy director);
• more than 100 scientific publications on radio equipment modelling, electromagnetic compatibility analysis, radio-frequency and satellite orbit management, application of the ITU Radio Regulations, in international and national journals, conference/seminar proceedings, etc.
• an active participant in all World radiocommunication conferences and Radiocommunication assemblies since 1992, a member of delegations of the Russian Federation at WCIT-2012, WTDC-14/17, WTSA-16, PP-14, etc.
Valery Tikhvinskiy
Deputy General Director on Innovation Technologies, JSC National Research Institute of Technologies and Communications (NIITC)
Deputy General Director on Innovation Technologies of JSC «National Research Institute of Technologies and Communications», Doctor of Economics Science (2003), Ph.D. Degree in Radio engineering (1988), Professor of Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics (MTUCI) and Plekhanov University of Economics (2013). Visit-Professor of Tunisian Telecommunication Institute (IsetCom, Tunisia) (Since 2005) and International Information Technologies University (IITU, Kazakhstan), the Government Prize laureate (2003), published over 330 scientific papers on Economic-legal, QoS - problems of telecommunications, Spectrum Management and EMC issues, author of 14-th books on Economic-legal and Technological issues of 2G/3G/4G/5G and IoT.
More than 35 years conducting research & development works in Research Authority of Ministry of Defense and Ministry of Information Technologies & Communications. Chief Editor of «T-Comm» Journal (Since 2008), Editorial Board Member of ITT Journal (Kazakhstan) and Electrosvyaz, «First Mile», «Mobile Communications» Journals in Russia.Scientific and professional fields of activity:
• Development of IoT, NGN and 2G/3G/4G/5G;
• Efficient utilization and Spectrum reforming of Radio Spectrum;
• Economical and Regulation issues of Radio communications;
• Quality of Service for Mobile communications
• Radio communication systems interference;
ITU Field Expert (ITU-D Seminars: Erevan-2001(Armenia), Sana’a-2005(Yemen)). Actively participated in the work of International regulatory and standardization telecom bodies as representative of the Russian Federation, namely, in ITU (ITU-R SG1), CEPT/ECC (EСC/WG RA, EСC/WG/FM), ETSI (TC/SmartM2M, TC/ERM, TC/STQ), GTI TDD Association and oneM2M Partnership Project.
Sergiu Bocancea
Head of Communications Infrastructure Department, Ministry of Economy and Infrastructure of the Republic of Moldova
Sergiu Bocancea - Head of Communications Infrastructure Department, Ministry of Economy and Infrastructure of the Republic of Moldova.
Responsible for planning, organization and coordination of development and promotion, as well as monitoring of the implementation of policy documents, legislative and normative acts in the field of electronic and postal communication
Mikhail Kaigorodov
Global Spectrum & Policy Regulator, ESOA
CEO of Russian Inmarsat subsidiary “ISAT Global Xpress” LLC with an office in Moscow.
Mikhail has obtained his engineering degree in telecommunications in the Military Institute of Government Communications and his postgraduate diploma in the Academy of the Federal Agency of Government Communications and Information under the auspices of the President of the Russian Federation.
Before joining Inmarsat in June 2017 Mikhail was leading Saratov’s subsidiary of Tele2 (Volga region) that he has joint after his work in the Ministry of Communications of the Russian Federation as the deputy head of the infrastructure department. He has an extensive experience in the mobile telecommunication market in Russia, obtained during his employment in Vimpelcom, MTS and Nokia
Maris Aleksandrovs
Director of Technical department, Latvian frequency management authority – Electronic communications office
Maris Aleksandrovs is a Director of Technical department at Latvian frequency management authority – Electronic communications office (VAS “Elektroniskie sakari”). Technical department is responsible for frequency planning, frequency coordination, frequency monitoring, representation of Latvian interests in international working groups, type approval, Numbering data base development and maintenance, acceptance of antenna installation projects.
Peter Vari
Deputy Director General, National Media and Infocommunications Authority of Hungary
Dr Péter Vári attended Széchenyi István Technical College, from 1987 to 1990, majoring as wireless networking technology engineer. He then graduated from the Budapest University of Technology in 1994 as Electrical Engineer in telecommunications. In 2001 he earned the postgraduate certificate at the Budapest University of Economic Studies as an Engineer-economist. In 2003 he completed the postgraduate course at Eötvös Lóránd University (ELTE), Budapest as an Engineer-lawyer. He received his Ph.D. in 2017 at Corvinus University of Budapest on the topic of Digital Television and Switchover.
Dr Vári worked as an engineer from 1992 to 1993 for Matáv Rt., the largest telecommunications operator in Hungary. From 1993 to 2004 he worked for Antenna Hungária Rt., the Hungarian Broadcasting and Radio Telecommunications Limited Company, where he started as Head of Unit and worked his way up to become Director of Operational Matters. In 2004-2006 he was Head of Department in the Ministry of Informatics and Communications of Hungary, and in 2006-2008 he was Senior Counsellor of the Government at the Hungarian Prime Minister’s Office. In 2009, as a project manager, he began to coordinate the digital switchover at Antenna Hungária Rt., and in 2011 he started working in the National Media and Infocommunications Authority of Hungary (NMHH). Currently, as a Deputy Director General of NMHH, he is responsible for the fields of frequency and identifier management, measurement affairs and technology analysis.
Dr Vári is a forensics expert of electronic communications and broadcasting, and an ITU expert on digital switchover.
Dr Vári is a senior lecturer of the Department of Telecommunications at Széchenyi István University of Győr and gives courses in the field of radio systems and satellite telecommunications .
He is married with two children.
Mindaugas Žilinskas
Deputy Director, Communications Regulatory Authority, Lithuania
Dr. Mindaugas Žilinskas is Deputy Director at the Communications regulatory Authority of the Republic of Lithuania, holds Doctor’s degree in science (PhD) from Vilnius University (1989) and since 2004 is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Physics, Vilnius University, an author or co-author of more than 70 publications and reports in scientific journals and conferences.
Dr. M. Žilinskas has acquired over 30 years of scientific experience and practical knowledge in radio communication management, nationally, regionally (Europe) and internationally. He has led a number of bilateral and multilateral negotiations on radio spectrum coordination with the neighbouring countries on fixed and mobile, broadcasting services, is a key person in the national radio frequency management system and programs for planning and coordination of broadcasting and mobile stations.
On the European level, since 2005 Dr. Žilinskas has been a member of Electronic Communications Committee (ECC) and Conference Preparatory group (CPG) of the European Conference of Posts and telecommunications Administrations (CEPT), in 2005-2014 – member of radio Spectrum Committee of the EC, since 2014 - member of Radio Spectrum Policy Group (RSPG). Now he is Co-Chairman of Good Office group of RSPG (since 2015).
Dr. Žilinskas has more than 15 years’ experience of involvement in the work of International Telecommunication Union ITU (since 2004), including participation as a Member of the Lithuanian Delegation in World Radio Conferences of WRC-03, WRC-07, WRC-12, Deputy Head of Lithuanian delegation in WRC-15. He also held membership and managerial positions in ITU Radio Regulation Board (RRB): Chair (2010) and Vice-Chair (2009, 2014) ITU Radio Regulations Board (RRB), with ITU RRB membership in 2007-2014 he contributed in solving issues related to radio spectrum assignments, esp. for terrestrial applications and spectrum use.
Dr. Žilinskas was a member of the Lithuanian delegation of ITU Plenipotentiary Conferences in PP-02, PP-06, PP-10, PP-14, PP-18. At PP-18, he was nominated as a candidate of Lithuania for the post of the Director of the ITU Radiocommunication Bureau.
Chris Woolford
Director, International Spectrum Policy, Ofcom
Chris Woolford is Ofcom’s Director of International Spectrum Policy where his responsibilities cover the UK’s international spectrum interests, especially in relation to the ITU, CEPT and EU. He is a member of Ofcom’s Spectrum Executive Team and Strategy Steering Group.
Chris is active in various European spectrum committees and currently represents the UK on the Radio Spectrum Policy Group (RSPG). He has closely engaged for the UK on a number of key European and international spectrum initiatives and led the UK delegations to WRC-15 and WRC-12.
Chris has a degree in mathematics and statistics from Manchester University.
Albina Temirbayeva
Chief Specialist of International Cooperation and Prospective Projects Division, the “State Radio Frequency Service” Republican Enterprise of the Ministry of Information and Communication of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Chief Specialist of International Cooperation and Prospective Projects Division, the “State Radio Frequency Service” Republican Enterprise of the Ministry of Information and Communication of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Albina Temirbayeva has a Master’s degree in technical sciences. Author of 7 scientific articles about propagation of radio waves.
She started her professional career in “State Technical Service” Republican Enterprise as a specialist of Frequency Spectrum Planning Division of the Radiomonitoring Department, where she was responsible for calculation of electromagnetic compatibility of mobile and stationary radio electronic means.
Mrs. Temirbayeva participates in Frequency Spectrum usage policy-making process in Kazakhstan and also on behalf of the Administration of Kazakhstan actively participates in RCC preparation to CPM-19 and WRC-19.
Ivan Zaitsev
Global Spectrum & Policy Regulator, ESOA
Ivan Zaitsev is a Director, Regulatory Affairs – CIS and Eastern Europe at OneWeb, where he works since 2017. Prior to joining OneWeb Mr. Zaitsev has worked for 11 years at Veon Ltd. Group (f.k.a. VimpelCom Ltd. Group) on various management positions in the field of law and telecommunications regulation, including most recently, Director Legal and Regulatory Counsel for International Wholesale Business of Veon and, prior to that, Chief Regulatory Officer – CIS, working out of Amsterdam-based HQ, managing Chief Legal and Regulatory Officers in the countries and bearing whole-round responsibility for spectrum management and networks regulatory matters across the region. Mr. Zaitsev served at the Boards of CIS countries operating subsidiaries. He also worked as Deputy General Counsel at Eurasian Development Bank, which financed various infrastructure projects, and held various expert and management level positions in legal, regulatory and public affairs at AES Corporation, major power generation and distribution multinational corporation also involved in roll-out of optical fiber lines.
Mr. Zaitsev’s experience spans over 15 years of in-house regulatory work and outside legal and regulatory counsel involving both matters of national law and regulation in the telecommunications, and specifically licensing, networks access, spectrum management, of CIS countries as well as on certain aspects of international public law, including ITU Radio Regulations. Ivan is a qualified attorney with nearly 20 PQE and he has also worked as a Senior Legal Counsel at international law firms McGuireWoods and Salans serving anchor clients in telecommunications sector in CIS region. As a lawyer he performed comparative law and international law implementation studies in the field of telecommunications for his organizations and clients, including with respect to market access of and landing rights/spectrum authorization for foreign satellite systems, use of spectrum for maritime services in a cross-border context, allocation of spectrum for LTE, regulation of international roaming and mobile termination rates (MTRs), use of centralized platforms for LTE-roaming in a cross-border context, etc., some of which have been published and some kept in confidence as an a matter of attorney-client privilege. He co-authored drafts of resolutions and international treaties in CIS/RCC region.
Mr. Zaitsev’s expertise lays beyond spectrum management as he has been actively participating in the work of various working groups and taskforces at the Regional Commonwealth of Communications (RCC) and other regional bodies in CIS, including ITU-T Regional Study Group 3 RCC/CIS, International Working Group on Tariffs of RCC, International Working Group on Roaming of Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service, International Working Group on Harmonization of Telecommunications Regulations of Eurasian Economic Union. He also participated in the working groups of GSM Association with respect to wholesale international telecommunications and dealt with European Commission on telecommunications and antitrust matters. He is also knowledgeable in the matters of communications data surveillance, communications security and data privacy and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional in European Union (CIPP/E).
Ivan Zaitsev is a graduate of Faculty of Law of Eastern Kazakhstan State University and has been awarded Jurisprudence Diploma with honors (1999). He is also Edmund Muskie Fellow and holds Master of Laws degree from Maurer School of Law at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN in the U.S. (2004).
Ivan speaks English, Russian, Dutch and little bit of Brazilian Portuguese.
Ganbat Delgermaa
International Spectrum Coordinator, Radio Frequency Regulation and Monitoring Dept, Communications Regulatory Commission of Mongolia
Ganbat Delgermaa is Officer of Radio Frequency Regulation and International Coordination Radio Frequency Regulation and Monitoring Department of Communication Regulatory Commission of Mongolia
Ganbat has been working in this position for more than 3 years and the former worked as a leading engineer in Mongolian National Broadcasting Company, speaks Russian and English.
Mabetaliev Zamir Sayakbaevich
Deputy Director, State Agency of Communication, Kyrgz Republic
Education higher, in 1995 graduated from the Kyrgyz Technical University named after I. Razzakov in the specialty "Design and technology of radio-electronic means", in 2009 graduated from the magistracy in the Academy of Management under the President of the Kyrgyz Republic in the direction of "Management".
1995-1997 - Engineer of the Television Department of the Republican Radio Television Center.
1999-2000 - National Communications Agency of the Kyrgyz Republic, 2nd category engineer.
2000-2001 - National Communications Agency of the Kyrgyz Republic, 1st category engineer.
2001-2004 - National Communications Agency of the Kyrgyz Republic, deputy head of department.
2004-2005 - National Agency of Communications of the Kyrgyz Republic, head of department.
2005-2010 - National Communications Agency of the Kyrgyz Republic, deputy head of department.
2010-2014 - State Communications Agency of the Kyrgyz Republic, head of department.
2014-2015 - OJSCompany "Republican Production Association of Radio Relay Highways of Television and Radio Broadcasting", Deputy General Director.
From 2015 - OJSCompany "Republican Production Association of Radio Relay Highways of Television and Radio Broadcasting", General Director.
From July 2017 - State Communications Agency under the State Committee of Information Technologies and Communications of the Kyrgyz Republic, Deputy Director
Farid Nakhli
Programme officer, ITU Regional Office for CIS
Farid Nakhli received his Master of technical sciences degree in the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics in 2009.
From 2008 to 2015 Farid worked in the system of the Ministry of Communication and Informatization of the Republic of Belarus managing projects on nation-wide ICT strategy and policy analysis, monitoring of ICT infrastructure and e-government development, regulation and standardisation, and development of relevant software.
In 2015 he joined the Corporate Strategy Division of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) as Planning and Management Consultant. Since 2016 Farid works as Programme Officer at the ITU Regional Office for CIS based in Moscow, where his responsibilities include ICT strategy and policy advise, management of projects on ICT development and organization of regional events.
Recognized profession credentials include:
• CCNP (Cisco certified network professional) – 2012
• PMP (Project management professional) – 2014
Speaks Russian, English, French and Belarusian.
Xu Weizhong
Chief Strategy Officer of Huawei Wireless Product Line, Huawei
Mr Xu currently serves as Chief Strategy Officer of Huawei’s Wireless Product Line. In
this capacity he is responsible for the “everything@wireless” strategy planning and
business development.
During his 20 years experience in Huawei, Mr Xu has held several senior roles in
different departments. Previously he was the Director of Vodafone Account Marketing
Department; in charge of marketing and joint innovations with the Vodafone Group. He has also worked within Huawei’s Research and Development organization as the
President of the Packet Core Network Product Line. In this role he was responsible for
the 2G/3G/4G Packet Switched Core end to end business planning business, solution
design, R&D, sales and delivery.
Mr Xu graduated from the University of Xi'an Jiaotong with a MA degree in 1997. Then
he joined Huawei as a R&D engineer.
Mikhail Pakhomov
Head of Government & Industry Relations Customer Unit Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Ericsson
Since March 2019 Head of Government and Industrial Relations at Ericsson Eastern Europe and Central Asia. From 2006 to 2018 Cisco Systems, Government Affairs Director, General Manager Cisco Innovation Center at Skolkovo, Regional Manager Government Relations, Vertical Sales Manager Public Sector Russia and CIS. Between 1993 and 2003 worked in various positions at Alcatel, Marubeni and Seiko Epson.
During 1999 was Head of regional projects supervision department at OPOO “OTECHESTVO” (Political organization “Fatherland-All Russia”). Have participated in Russian Y1999 elections to State Duma. Was responsible for relations with the independent candidates.
In 1989 started career at the USSR/Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a Secretary of the USSR/Russia General Consulate in Aleppo (Syria). Has diplomatic rank-attaché.
Graduated Moscow State Institute of International Relations, foreign relations specialist.
Inga Popovici
Legal adviser, National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications of Romania (ANCOM)
Inga Popovici was born in Chisinau, Republic of Moldova.
She received a bachelor’s degree in Law awarded by the University of Bucharest, Romania.
She has a 15-year experience in providing legal assistance in Telecom Sector and over 9-year experience in international cooperation.
From 2010 to 2012 she participated on behalf of the Romanian Administrations in the ITU Workshops for Europe and CIS.
Starting 2013 she has been representative of ANCOM in the Network of the Independent Regulators from Eastern Partnership countries (EaPeReg).
She is co-chair of the Expert working group of EaPeReg that is responsible for legislative approximation, regulatory governance, benchmarking and developing of broadband strategies in EaP countries.
She participates in conferences, summits and other high-level meetings on behalf of the Romanian Administrations.
Dmitry Laryushin
Lead coordinator CIS region, GSA
Dmitry Laryushin serves as the Technical Policy and Regulations Manager at Intel. He covers various Technical Policies in Russia/CIS countries, namely Privacy & Security, Wireless Communications and Trade.
Dmitry graduated from Moscow Physical-Technical Institute in 1993, and received PhD degree in Radio-Physics in 1997.
Dmitry joined Intel in 2000 as a Senior DSP SW development engineer. Later he worked as the manager of engineering team developing Intel WiFi and WiMAX products.
Starting 2005 Dmitry served as a WiMAX business development manager in Russia driving related spectrum polices and ecosystem development. From 2010 he serves in the current position.
Pavel Mamchenkov
Director of the Department of Radio Frequencies and Licenses, Megafon
More than 25 years of professional career are dedicated to regulation, development, operation and researches of the latest advances in telecommunication with the emphasis on radiocommunications. The primary area of expertise is spectrum management in government and private sector including socio-economic trends in telecommunications on global, regional and national basis. The comprehensive experience in spectrum management gained through direct participation in development of strategies, implementation of economic aspects in regulation, researches of spectrum re-allocation and re-farming, spectrum sharing as well as spectrum pricing and other related topics.
Experience and Competencies
26 years of professional engagement in telecommunications, radiocommunications and spectrum management, of which twelve years of research and analysis practice with R&D centres, seven years of regulatory practice with the Telecommunication Administration, and seven years of operational spectrum planning with mobile operator company.
More than 18 years of participation in ITU activities resulting in the strong knowledge of spectrum regulatory procedures, allocation methods, legal instruments, software tools and issues at the international level. The qualified ITU’s expert. Six missions on Spectrum Management and ICT Development in developing countries to carry out surveys of national spectrum regulatory institutions, development of spectrum management master-plans.
Kyu-Jin Wee
Chairman APG, APT
Dr. Kyu-Jin WEE is a Fellow of Korea Radio Promotion Association (RAPA) since 2017. He is a Chairman of APG (APT WRC Preparatory Group) since 2016. He was a Vice President of Telecommunications Technology Association (TTA) since 2012. TTA is an accredited standard development organization for ICT in the Republic of Korea. Before he joined TTA, he worked in the Korean Government for more than 20 years for spectrum management and standardization.
He has been participating in various international and regional conferences including ITU and APT.
Vadim Shaibakov
Deputy Director General for Technical Issues, Beltelecom
Implementation of common engineering policy on telecommunications development with the objective of foundation of managerial and engineering unity in operation. Operation of development of primary/secondary network and data transmission network, project expertise, technological-process automation, IT matters, laying down modernization programmes.
Participation in intersectoral coordination of development of information networks in terms of using in them hardware and telesoftware of data communication, integration of computerized systems of different level and application, foundation of sharable database. Control of development schemes of telecommunication means with due regard to their interaction with overseas telecommunication networks. Coordination of subsidiaries’ activities concerning these matters
Mirela Doicu
Chairperson, Policy Working Group, Small Cell Forum
Mirela is part of the Global Government Relations team of Nokia group, overseeing the wireless regulation and policies since 2011. She is active in several industry associations at international and European level, currently chairing the Regulatory working group of the Small Cells Forum. She is also involved in the regulatory and spectrum issues with DIGITALEUROPE.
Mirela has 20 years of experience in telecom with Nokia, Alcatel-Lucent, and Orange, in regulation, business consulting, product and strategic marketing and business planning. Mirela holds a MBA in Marketing from University of Ottawa and HEC Montreal and an Organic Chemistry Engineering Degree from the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest.
Ivan Zaitsev
Director, Regulatory Affairs – CIS and Eastern Europe , OneWeb
Ivan Zaitsev is a Director, Regulatory Affairs – CIS and Eastern Europe at OneWeb, where he works since 2017. Prior to joining OneWeb Mr. Zaitsev has worked for 11 years at Veon Ltd. Group (f.k.a. VimpelCom Ltd. Group) on various management positions in the field of law and telecommunications regulation, including most recently, Director Legal and Regulatory Counsel for International Wholesale Business of Veon and, prior to that, Chief Regulatory Officer – CIS, working out of Amsterdam-based HQ, managing Chief Legal and Regulatory Officers in the countries and bearing whole-round responsibility for spectrum management and networks regulatory matters across the region. Mr. Zaitsev served at the Boards of CIS countries operating subsidiaries. He also worked as Deputy General Counsel at Eurasian Development Bank, which financed various infrastructure projects, and held various expert and management level positions in legal, regulatory and public affairs at AES Corporation, major power generation and distribution multinational corporation also involved in roll-out of optical fiber lines.
Mr. Zaitsev’s experience spans over 15 years of in-house regulatory work and outside legal and regulatory counsel involving both matters of national law and regulation in the telecommunications, and specifically licensing, networks access, spectrum management, of CIS countries as well as on certain aspects of international public law, including ITU Radio Regulations. Ivan is a qualified attorney with nearly 20 PQE and he has also worked as a Senior Legal Counsel at international law firms McGuireWoods and Salans serving anchor clients in telecommunications sector in CIS region. As a lawyer he performed comparative law and international law implementation studies in the field of telecommunications for his organizations and clients, including with respect to market access of and landing rights/spectrum authorization for foreign satellite systems, use of spectrum for maritime services in a cross-border context, allocation of spectrum for LTE, regulation of international roaming and mobile termination rates (MTRs), use of centralized platforms for LTE-roaming in a cross-border context, etc., some of which have been published and some kept in confidence as an a matter of attorney-client privilege. He co-authored drafts of resolutions and international treaties in CIS/RCC region.
Mr. Zaitsev’s expertise lays beyond spectrum management as he has been actively participating in the work of various working groups and taskforces at the Regional Commonwealth of Communications (RCC) and other regional bodies in CIS, including ITU-T Regional Study Group 3 RCC/CIS, International Working Group on Tariffs of RCC, International Working Group on Roaming of Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service, International Working Group on Harmonization of Telecommunications Regulations of Eurasian Economic Union. He also participated in the working groups of GSM Association with respect to wholesale international telecommunications and dealt with European Commission on telecommunications and antitrust matters. He is also knowledgeable in the matters of communications data surveillance, communications security and data privacy and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional in European Union (CIPP/E).
Ivan Zaitsev is a graduate of Faculty of Law of Eastern Kazakhstan State University and has been awarded Jurisprudence Diploma with honors (1999). He is also Edmund Muskie Fellow and holds Master of Laws degree from Maurer School of Law at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN in the U.S. (2004).
Ivan speaks English, Russian, Dutch and little bit of Brazilian Portuguese.
Mirela Doicu
Nokia
Mirela is part of the Global Government Relations team of Nokia group, overseeing the wireless regulation and policies since 2011. She is active in several industry associations at international and European level, currently chairing the Regulatory working group of the Small Cells Forum. She is also involved in the regulatory and spectrum issues with DIGITALEUROPE.
Mirela has 20 years of experience in telecom with Nokia, Alcatel-Lucent, and Orange, in regulation, business consulting, product and strategic marketing and business planning. Mirela holds a MBA in Marketing from University of Ottawa and HEC Montreal and an Organic Chemistry Engineering Degree from the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest.
Moderators
Amit Nagpal
Partner, Aetha Consulting
Amit Nagpal is a Partner at, and one of the co-founders of, Aetha Consulting. Amit has over 20 years of experience on spectrum management issues having started his career with the Radiocommunications Agency (now part of Ofcom) in the UK. Amit advises regulators/government bodies, fixed and mobile operators, broadcasters, financial institutions and industry associations on a wide range of issues including spectrum policy development and spectrum valuation and auction support. Amit’s experience includes leading studies for the European Commission on the introduction of spectrum trading and a harmonised approach to the digital dividend. Amit has undertaken projects for clients in Europe, Middle East and Africa, Asia and North America and is therefore able to bring a global perspective to his work. He recently supported a mobile operator in Colombia with its preparations for the AWS
spectrum auction.
Victor Strelets
Advisor to Director General, Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Morsviazsputnik”
Victor STRELETS is member of the ITU Radio Regulation Board (RRB). He was elected to the Radio Regulations Board at the 2010 and 2014 ITU Plenipotentiary Conferences (2011 - Vice-Chairman RRB, 2012 - Chairman RRB).
He is today advisor to Director General, at Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Morsviazsputnik” and Consultant to various Russian Satellites Companies.
Victor Strelets has 34 years’ experience of scientific-research and technical and administrative work in the field of spectrum management.
Since 1993, he participated in the ITU-R activities and also in the of the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations and Regional Commonwealth in the field of Communications.
He has taken part in various sets of negotiations and has headed bilateral and multilateral coordination meetings dealing with frequency planning and coordination issues.
In 2004, Strelets assumed direct responsibility for the Russian Administration’s preparations for the 2007 World Radiocommunication Conference and 2006 Regional Conference for the planning of digital terrestrial broadcasting, and provided practical leadership for the Russian Administration’s delegations to those events. From 2004 to 2013, he served as Chairman of the State Radio Frequency Committee’s working group handling preparations for the World Radiocommunication Conference.
Victor Strelets has played an active role in the development of a spectrum management system in the Russian Federation. From 2004 to 2008, as an administrative head in the State Radio Frequency Committee.
Farid Nakhli
Programme officer, ITU Regional Office for CIS
Farid Nakhli received his Master of technical sciences degree in the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics in 2009.
From 2008 to 2015 Farid worked in the system of the Ministry of Communication and Informatization of the Republic of Belarus managing projects on nation-wide ICT strategy and policy analysis, monitoring of ICT infrastructure and e-government development, regulation and standardisation, and development of relevant software.
In 2015 he joined the Corporate Strategy Division of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) as Planning and Management Consultant. Since 2016 Farid works as Programme Officer at the ITU Regional Office for CIS based in Moscow, where his responsibilities include ICT strategy and policy advise, management of projects on ICT development and organization of regional events.
Recognized profession credentials include:
• CCNP (Cisco certified network professional) – 2012
• PMP (Project management professional) – 2014
Speaks Russian, English, French and Belarusian.
Alexandre Vassiliev
Scientific Consultant on Management of Radio-Frequency Spectrum and Satellite Orbit , FSUE, NIIR
• More than 40 year experience in electromagnetic compatibility analyses, equipment modelling, radio-frequency spectrum management/satellite management and radio regulations, modification and application of the Radio Regulations;
• 22 years work (1989-2010) in the ITU IFRB secretariat/Radiocommunication Bureau (an engineer, councellor of Study Groups 3, 4, 7 and Working Party 5B, the ITU-R Focal Point on the use of radiocommunications for prevention of further climate change and in emergency situations);
• 20 years work (1970-1989) in the Leningrad Branch of the Radio Research and Development Institute – LONIIR (an engineer, a head of sector, the deputy director);
• more than 100 scientific publications on radio equipment modelling, electromagnetic compatibility analysis, radio-frequency and satellite orbit management, application of the ITU Radio Regulations, in international and national journals, conference/seminar proceedings, etc.
• an active participant in all World radiocommunication conferences and Radiocommunication assemblies since 1992, a member of delegations of the Russian Federation at WCIT-2012, WTDC-14/17, WTSA-16, PP-14, etc.
Stanislav Kizima
ITU Expert & Scientific Consultant, Radio Research and Development Institute
ITU expert. Doctor of technical Sciences. Awarded with honorary sign "Engineering glory of Russia"
Since 2013 Dr. Stanislav Kizima is Deputy Director General R&D Company “Vector” (tools and measurement systems).
For a long time he was the scientific leader and active participant in R&D on issues of technologies of management of the radiofrequency spectrum, including the technological systems to ensure the use of the radio spectrum at the national level.
He is a member of the working group of the UN International Committee on global navigation satellite systems (ICG).
Author of more than 70 scientific articles, monographs, inventions and reports.
Valery Tikhvinskiy
Deputy General Director on Innovation Technologies,, JSC National Research Institute of Technologies and Communications (NIITC)
Deputy General Director on Innovation Technologies of JSC «National Research Institute of Technologies and Communications», Doctor of Economics Science (2003), Ph.D. Degree in Radio engineering (1988), Professor of Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics (MTUCI) and Plekhanov University of Economics (2013). Visit-Professor of Tunisian Telecommunication Institute (IsetCom, Tunisia) (Since 2005) and International Information Technologies University (IITU, Kazakhstan), the Government Prize laureate (2003), published over 330 scientific papers on Economic-legal, QoS - problems of telecommunications, Spectrum Management and EMC issues, author of 14-th books on Economic-legal and Technological issues of 2G/3G/4G/5G and IoT.
More than 35 years conducting research & development works in Research Authority of Ministry of Defense and Ministry of Information Technologies & Communications. Chief Editor of «T-Comm» Journal (Since 2008), Editorial Board Member of ITT Journal (Kazakhstan) and Electrosvyaz, «First Mile», «Mobile Communications» Journals in Russia.Scientific and professional fields of activity:
• Development of IoT, NGN and 2G/3G/4G/5G;
• Efficient utilization and Spectrum reforming of Radio Spectrum;
• Economical and Regulation issues of Radio communications;
• Quality of Service for Mobile communications
• Radio communication systems interference;
ITU Field Expert (ITU-D Seminars: Erevan-2001(Armenia), Sana’a-2005(Yemen)). Actively participated in the work of International regulatory and standardization telecom bodies as representative of the Russian Federation, namely, in ITU (ITU-R SG1), CEPT/ECC (EСC/WG RA, EСC/WG/FM), ETSI (TC/SmartM2M, TC/ERM, TC/STQ), GTI TDD Association and oneM2M Partnership Project.
Logistics
When
Mon 8 April, 2019 09.00 to
Tue 9 April, 2019 17.00
Moscow
Where
20 Pobediteley Avenue Minsk, HM 220020, Belarus
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