The European 5G Conference 2024

Janette is one of Analysys Mason’s senior spectrum experts, with 25 years’ experience in radio engineering, wireless technologies, spectrum policy and spectrum management. Janette joined Analysys Mason in 2001, having previously worked for the UK Radiocommunications Agency (now Ofcom).

Janette’s expertise lies in mobile, wireless and broadband technologies and markets and her consulting experience includes advising on market developments in the wireless sector, wireless technology evolution, wireless business modelling, spectrum valuation, spectrum strategy, competition and regulation issues in the wireless market. She has worked with a wide range of public- and private-sector clients including national regulators, government departments, network operators, wireless industry trade associations, equipment vendors and telecoms users.

Her recent focus has been on 5G mobile and she has authored several published reports, including a study for Qualcomm and Ericsson on costs and benefits of 5G deployment in Europe, a study on 5G millimetre-wave deployment in Europe, reports for US industry body CTIA comparing 5G readiness in several world markets and a study on the benefits of cellular V2X technology for the 5GAA. Janette holds a BEng in Electronic Engineering from the University of Edinburgh, and an MSc in Radio Communications from the University of Bradford.

Renate Nikolay is now Deputy Director-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology. Previously, she was Head of Cabinet of Vera Jourova, Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality. She led the Unit of interinstitutional and international relations in DG Justice between 2011 and 2014 dealing with legislative files and international negotiations such as the ones on data protection with the US. Prior to that, she was advisor in the Cabinet of the first High Representative / Vice President Cathy Ashton where she led on the relations with the European Parliament in setting up the European External Action Service and on relations with Asia, in particular China. From 2004-2009 she was member of the Cabinet of the Trade Commissioners Peter Mandelson and Baroness Cathy Ashton where she followed the trade talks in the multilateral trade round of the World Trade Organisation (the Doha Round) and the EU-South Korea Free Trade Agreement which was finalised in 2009. She started her career in the European Commission in the Directorate General for Trade in November 2003 dealing with the accession negotiations of Vietnam to the World Trade Organisation and the Trade Policy Committee with the Member States. Prior to that she was a diplomat in the German Permanent Representation in Brussels and worked as private Secretary to the German G8 Sherpa in the German Ministry of Economics. She holds a law degree (Erstes und Zweites Staatsexamen) from the Free University in Berlin and a master as a Fulbright Scholar in Washington DC. She was also an Erasmus Scholar in France/Grenoble.

Janette is one of Analysys Mason’s senior spectrum experts, with 25 years’ experience in radio engineering, wireless technologies, spectrum policy and spectrum management. Janette joined Analysys Mason in 2001, having previously worked for the UK Radiocommunications Agency (now Ofcom).

Janette’s expertise lies in mobile, wireless and broadband technologies and markets and her consulting experience includes advising on market developments in the wireless sector, wireless technology evolution, wireless business modelling, spectrum valuation, spectrum strategy, competition and regulation issues in the wireless market. She has worked with a wide range of public- and private-sector clients including national regulators, government departments, network operators, wireless industry trade associations, equipment vendors and telecoms users.

Her recent focus has been on 5G mobile and she has authored several published reports, including a study for Qualcomm and Ericsson on costs and benefits of 5G deployment in Europe, a study on 5G millimetre-wave deployment in Europe, reports for US industry body CTIA comparing 5G readiness in several world markets and a study on the benefits of cellular V2X technology for the 5GAA. Janette holds a BEng in Electronic Engineering from the University of Edinburgh, and an MSc in Radio Communications from the University of Bradford.

Tonko Obuljen, President of the Council at HAKOM, graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb in 1993.He has been active in the field of electronic communications ever since, which includes an engineering and managing experience in the microwave, satellite and fiber-optic systems as well as the broadcasting. He had previously been appointed as the Executive Director at HAKOM (2006-2008) and the Member of HAKOM’s Council (2009-2013). During negotiations on the accession of the Republic of Croatia into the European Union he was a member of working group for Chapter 10 – Information Society. He has been President of the Council at HAKOM since 2018. and the new BEREC Chair 2024.

Dr Kamila Kloc joined the European Commission in December 2004.

Since February 2023, Kamila is the Acting Director in Directorate B Digital Decade and Connectivity of Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CNECT). Since January 2019, she holds a position of a Head of Unit Markets in the same Directorate.

Previously she served as Deputy Head of Cabinet for Vice President Ansip responsible for Digital Single Market (DSM). Prior to joining the Cabinet, she worked at Directorate General for Energy coordinating exemptions from regulatory access rules for gas pipelines. During the Polish Presidency in 2011, she was seconded by the Commission to the President’s office of the Polish Energy Regulatory Authority.

Earlier, she worked for 5 years at the Directorate General for Competition dealing with merger and antitrust cases.

Prior to joining the Commission, she was employed at the Office for Competition and Consumer Protection in Poland as Adviser to the President. Kamila Kloc started her professional career in academia and taught at Warsaw School of Economics as Assistant Professor. She has written her PhD on the role of competition policy in the public utilities sector with a special emphasis on telecommunications. She was a Fulbright scholar at the University of California in Berkeley and a Chevening fellow at Oxford University.

Luigi Ardito is currently working as Director of government affairs for Europe, Middle East and North Africa at Qualcomm and drive Qualcomm spectrum and regulatory policy agenda in Europe and MENA dealing with various government entities and industry organizations. Prior to joining Qualcomm, Luigi worked for over a decade at Sony Corporation both in Japan and in the UK. Luigi gained also professional experience at France Telecom and at the Italian Public Broadcaster RAI.

Luigi has extensive experience in the Media and Telecom industry as well as the Semiconductor Industry gained through his assignments at Qualcomm, Sony, France Telecom and RAI. He holds an Electronic Engineering Degree gained at the Politecnico di Torino in Italy and a Master of Business Administration gained at the Henley Management College in the UK.

Currently leading public policy initiatives on the connectivity files in GSMA Europe, coordinating activities to advance the members’ positions. The topics range from open internet, roaming, IoT, and the wider debate on a proportionate framework to sustain long term investments in connectivity across Europe.

Lotte has broad experiences from the telecommunications sector working with regulators and policymakers at national, European and international level. She headed up Telenor’s Representative Office for 6 years where she positioned Telenor in various EU policy debates focusing on international relations between the EU and Asia. She also spent 3 years at Telenor’s headquarter in Oslo supporting Telenor Group in its relationship with international stakeholders.

Before joining the GSMA’s Brussels Office, Lotte was employed by a large Danish bank where she implemented new financial regulation as a senior project manager.

Lotte is a Danish native and holds a master of agricultural economics from University of Copenhagen.

Tobias Martinez is the company’s top-ranking executive (CEO) and sole director of the subsidiary Cellnex Finance Company, S.A.U. He joined Acesa Telecom (Abertis Group) in the year 2000, first as Board Member and Director General of Tradia, and subsequently of Retevisión. Before joining the Abertis Group, he headed his own business project in Information and Telecommunication Systems for more than 10 years.

He studied Telecommunications Engineering and holds a Diploma in Top Management from the IESE Business School (PADE) and a Diploma in Marketing Management from the Instituto Superior de Marketing de Barcelona (Higher Institute of Marketing of Barcelona).

Isabelle Mauro is Director General of the Global Satellite Operators Association (GSOA) that represents the interests of 70 members in the satellite ecosystem. She reports directly to their Chief Executives.

Under Isabelle’s leadership, GSOA and its member CEOs lead the effort to showcase the benefits of satellite communications for a more inclusive and secure society – vital to bridging the world’s digital divide, achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and realizing the 5G ecosystem.

Isabelle has 25 years experience in the Telecoms and Technology sector, starting at the GSMA, where she was responsible for government and international Affairs. In 2015 she moved to New York to join the World Economic Forum as Head of Information, Communications and Technology Industries, managing the portfolio for 60+ Tech companies globally and leading initiatives on inclusive and sustainable digital transformation.

Isabelle is passionate about inclusion and sustainability. She is Chair of the High-Level Advisory Board of the DigitalGoesGreen Foundation. She also sits on the Advisory Board of Women in Tech and is a member of the UNESCO Advisory Group for the Declaration on Connectivity for Education.

Isabelle holds an MSc in European Politics and Policy from the London School of Economics. She is fluent in French, English, Italian and Spanish.

Jillian Deutsch is a technology reporter based in Brussels writing about regulation and its impact on industries. She’s broken stories on everything from artificial intelligence and semiconductors to Big Tech and social media.

Before Bloomberg, Jillian was the lead reporter covering vaccines during the Covid-19 pandemic for Politico Europe, edited the women’s magazine the Riveter and taught English in Paris.

Steven Tas has been chairman of the European Telecommunications Network Operators’ Association (ETNO) since January 2015. He has headed Belgacom’s regulatory department since 2008.

He joined Belgacom in 1994 and has occupied different positions within the company’s strategy division. He has been a member of the ETNO board since 2009 and a member of the board of the Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE) since 2010.

Tas holds a master’s degree in civil engineering and industrial management from the University of Leuven.

Alin Mituța is a Romanian Member of the European Parliament sitting with the Renew Europe Group, and a member of, among others, ITRE and COVI committees.

Health is one of his priorities as MEP and he is a strong advocate for more EU competences for health, which he defended in the Conference on the Future of Europe. Under the health umbrella, he is also a strong supporter of EU measures to tackle inequalities between Member States especially in terms of access to HPV vaccination and screening.

He graduated in EU affairs at Sciences Po Paris and he spent his career working in the European institutions (European Parliament, Council of the EU and the European Economic and Social Committee), as well as state secretary and head of cabinet of the Prime Minister of Romania.

Maarit has an extensive expertise in telecoms, broadband and internet matters. She joined ETNO from the Internet Society, where she served as a Senior Manager Europe and where she has acquired strong experience of broadband policies as well as extensive links with internet and tech stakeholders. Maarit also had direct experience of the telecoms business during her 6 years at Cisco and has developed a strong service-oriented, hands-on profile acquired in leading consultancies Interel and Schuman Associates. She also has a strong European academic background from the College of Europe, LSE, King’s College and SciencesPo. Maarit is a Finnish national, she also speaks English and French.

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Ben Wreschner is Chief Economist for Vodafone Group. Ben has been in the Digital sector for 20 years. He has worked extensively in the policy and public affairs environment representing Vodafone at key meetings with various institutions. Ben is also the Chairman of the European Policy Group for the GSMA (Mobile industry association). Ben holds a BSc (Econ) from the London School of Economics.

Lee has been at the forefront of spectrum developments across the world for more than 20 years, helping operators to bid in auctions and regulators to formulate spectrum policy.

Lee has over 20 years’ experience of advising operators, regulators and government bodies across a broad range of topics, including network sharing, fibre networks and transaction support. Notably, Lee has extensive expertise in spectrum issues and has led numerous projects to help operators to develop spectrum strategies and to value spectrum. He has supported operators to prepare for and bid in more than 25 spectrum auctions worldwide. He has also led several high-profile spectrum-related studies for leading regulators such as the European Commission, Ofcom (UK) and the IDA (Singapore).

In 2015/16 Lee was seconded to Telstra’s network strategy team, where he led a range of spectrum and network strategy projects.

Lee holds B.A. and M.Eng. degrees in Manufacturing Engineering, both from the University of Cambridge, UK.

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Franco Accordino is the Head of the “Investment in High-Capacity Networks” unit within the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT). The unit is responsible for the deployment and take-up of very high-capacity broadband networks underpinning the Digital Single Market and promoting the European Commission’s vision and policy actions to turn Europe into a Gigabit Society by 2025.

Prior to this role, Franco was the Head of the “Knowledge Management and Innovative Systems” unit providing support to DG CONNECT policies and operations and delivering advanced solutions for the European Commission’s internal take up in such fields as data analytics, web platforms (futurium) and artificial intelligence.

Before becoming Head of Unit, Franco led the Task Force “Digital Futures”, a participatory foresight project aiming to devise 2050’s visions and policy ideas underpinned by the digital transformation.

During his experience at the European Commission, Franco worked as a scientific and policy officer and Director’s Assistant in such fields as Future and Emerging Technologies, Future Internet, High-Performance Computing, Grid and Cloud technologies, Trust and Security.

Before joining the European Commission, he worked at the ETHZ/CSCS National Supercomputing Centre of Switzerland and at the National Research Council of Italy where he conducted research on formal methods, languages and tools for complex systems specification.

He has a long-standing experience in several information technology fields, including formal methods and software engineering, cloud and distributed systems, network centric operating systems, web platforms, AI, machine learning and data analytics.

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Iva Tasheva is the co-founder and cybersecurity lead at CYEN, a family-owned micro consultancy established in Brussels in 2018. She helps public and private sector organisations manage cybersecurity governance, risk and compliance (GRC). She has experience in the public, digital, transport, banking, medical devices and non-profit sectors. She is certified ISO 27001 Lead Implementer and ISO 27799 Lead Manager.

In addition to her work for CYEN, she is a Member of the EU Cybersecurity Agency (ENISA) Ad-Hoc Working Groups on Enterprise Security and on Cloud Security (Certification), adviser to Obelis (representation of non-EU based manufacturers in a successful EU Market entry), a Board Member of the DPO Circle (community of GDPR and data security professionals), and a founding member of the Belgian Chapter of Women4Cyber. She was shortlisted for the Belgium’s Cyber Personality of the Year 2022 Award by the Belgian Cybersecurity Coalition.

Follow Iva Tasheva (or CYEN) on LinkedIn for updates on cybersecurity policy and implementation. Follow ‘CYEN – Cybersecurity’ on YouTube for monthly cybersecurity top experts’ interviews.

Lorena Boix Alonso is Director for Digital Society, Trust, and Cybersecurity in the Directorate General for Communications Networks Content and Technology (DG CONNECT) at the European Commission.

Formerly, she was Acting Director for Policy Strategy and Outreach and Head of Unit for Policy Implementation and Planning, also in DG CONNECT.

Previously, she was Deputy Head of Cabinet for Vice President Neelie Kroes, Commissioner for the Digital Agenda, and also during Ms. Kroes’ mandate as Commissioner for Competition. She joined the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition in 2003. Prior to that, she worked for Judge Rafael García Valdecasas at the European Court of Justice, as well as Deputy Director and Legal Coordinator of the IPR-Helpdesk Project and in private practice in Brussels.

She holds a Master of Laws from the Harvard Law School and a Licence Spéciale en Droit Européen from the Université Libre de Bruxelles. She graduated with a law degree from the University of Valencia.

Dr. Evangelos OUZOUNIS is the head of ENISA’s Policy Development and Implementation Unit.
His unit advises the Commission and Member States in the implementation of the NIS 2 Directive, as well as, other sectorial policy initiatives (e.g. DORA, eIDAS 2 and Wallets, AI Act, data protection).
Dr. Ouzounis leads the NIS Sectors of the Agency. His unit has contributed to the development of the 5G Toolbox and now the Nevers Call and developed numerous good practices enhancing the resilience of the energy, rail, health, and other NIS sectors.

Dr. Ouzounis is also responsible for policy development activities within ENISA. His team assists the Commission, EU Parliament, and Member States on new policy initiatives of the EU (e.g. CRA) following an evidence based approach (e.g. the NIS Investment reports).
Prior to his position at ENISA, Dr. Ouzounis worked several years at the European Commission (DG Connect) and co-founded FhG – FOKUS’ Electronic Commerce Centre of Competence (ECCO) in Berlin, Germany.

Dr. Ouzounis holds a Ph.D from the Technical University of Berlin and a Master in Computer Science and Engineering from the Technical University of Patras, Greece.

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Thierry BERISOT has more than 30 years’ international experience from the inside at the heart of the Internet/Telecom/cellular/IoT evolution.

Through his current role of Director IoT/telecom, Standards and Spectrum at Novamint, he is leading the standardization efforts to help verticals to get a say in the standardization at ETSI/3GPP: smart grid, asset tracking and monitoring, logistics and transport, private cellular network, satellite… He has been particularly active in 3GPP since Rel-15 in building trust & business between different stakeholders i.e. Verticals and operators. He has been instrumental in the promotion of IoT by Satellite in 3GPP since 2017 which led to the setup of 3GPP “IoT NTN” activities from Release 17. He is also a rapporteur in 3GPP SA1 studies on “satellite access” as well as “Interconnect of SNPN” for Release 19.

Since 2022, he is on the board of EUWENA and Chair of Use Cases Working Group enticing and promoting the development of a relevant private wireless network ecosystem to support verticals use cases and since November 2023 he has been elected as ETSI Board Member – his aim is to be the voice and the representative of the SMEs, the verticals as well as the satellite community there.

Before, he was Head of Access Clients for Mobile Broadband and terminal product development at Deutsche Telekom (Germany) from 2006 to 2015 where he was strongly involved in the 4G launch. He drove many industry and standardization initiatives such as the OMA OpenCMAPI which he chaired after having initiated it by convincing players such as Telefonica, Orange, Qualcomm, Intel, China Mobile, Huawei… to join.

Prior to this, he held various international experience positions as Business Development & Marketing Director for a Content & Software Company, as Senior Devices Vendor Manager at Proximus (Belgium) for 3G or as Strategic consulting on messaging and multimedia based in London.

Previously, in the end of 90’s, Thierry was SMS Product Marketing Manager in SFR (France) where he anticipated the success of SMS and defined the SFR’s SMS long-term strategy prior to become Senior Product Marketing Manager for SMS and content services at Vizzavi France then Vizzavi Europe (Joint-venture Vodafone-Vivendi / London) in 2000 where he was particularly in charge of devising very innovative multimedia and mobile content services for multi access (internet, mobile and TV).

Lee has been at the forefront of spectrum developments across the world for more than 20 years, helping operators to bid in auctions and regulators to formulate spectrum policy.

Lee has over 20 years’ experience of advising operators, regulators and government bodies across a broad range of topics, including network sharing, fibre networks and transaction support. Notably, Lee has extensive expertise in spectrum issues and has led numerous projects to help operators to develop spectrum strategies and to value spectrum. He has supported operators to prepare for and bid in more than 25 spectrum auctions worldwide. He has also led several high-profile spectrum-related studies for leading regulators such as the European Commission, Ofcom (UK) and the IDA (Singapore).

In 2015/16 Lee was seconded to Telstra’s network strategy team, where he led a range of spectrum and network strategy projects.

Lee holds B.A. and M.Eng. degrees in Manufacturing Engineering, both from the University of Cambridge, UK.

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Lara Connaughton leads the sustainability work at ComReg, the Irish Commission for Communications Regulation, as part of the International Unit. She is also a lead drafter of the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) Working Group for environmental sustainability, and the Irish delegate for the OECD Working Party on Communication Infrastructure and Services Policy (WPCISP). Prior to joining ComReg, she was a research analyst at the EU institution, ECA, in Luxembourg and previously worked in investor relations at Blackstone in London. Lara is a Schwarzman Scholar with a masters in Global Affairs from Tsinghua University, Beijing.

Laura Fernández Cavas is Head of Sustainable Finance at Telefónica at a corporate level, Member of the Consultative Working Group of ESMA (European Securities and Markets Authority) and Chair of the Workstream in Sustainable Finance in ETNO (European Telecommunications Network Operators’ Association. Her current work focuses on the sustainable finance strategy and the implementation of the European taxonomy in sustainable finance at a global level. Including control of impacts and allocation of sustainable financial instruments and the development of eligible and aligned financial KPIs, technical screening criteria, do not significant and social minimum safeguards. Her participation in ETNO is leading common goals of the ICT sector.

Prior to that, Laura was Co-founder and head of sustainability of a consultancy business. She has developed sustainability projects, mainly focused in climate change, during more than 13 years along different sectors and company sizes.

Laura holds a Degree in Environmental Sciences (Murcia, Spain), a Master in Renewables Energies and trainings related with sustainable finance.

ALEKSANDER SOŁTYSIK is an attaché for the telecommunication sector in the Permanent Representation of Poland to the European Union and represents Ministry of Digital Affairs in the Council of the European Union. The main responsibilities are matters regarding radio spectrum, gigabit infrastructure, artificial intelligence and Digital Decade. Currently he is the Chair of the Radio Spectrum Policy Group – a high-level advisory group that assists the European Commission in the development of radio spectrum policy. He is also an outgoing co-rapporteur of the RSPG Working Group on Peer Review and Member State cooperation on authorizations and awards, which is responsible for annual reports on the implementation of the art. 35 of the European Electronic Communications Code. Aleksander was the Head of International Telecommunication Unit at the Ministry of Digital Affair, engaged in the International Telecommunication Union’s and CEPT matters, mainly focusing on the preparations for the World Radiocommunication Conferences. He was a Kosciuszko Foundation scholar at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University and hold a PhD degree from the Jagiellonian University in Cracow.

M. Ethan Lucarelli is Chief of the Federal Communications Commission’s Office of International Affairs (OIA). The Office is responsible for leading the Commission’s international activities, including treaty negotiations, bilateral and multilateral engagements, and cross-border frequency coordination. The Office is also responsible for licensing international telecommunications services and applying the agency’s rules on foreign ownership. Prior to OIA, Mr. Lucarelli served in the office of FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, where he advised the Chairwoman on wireless and international matters. Previously, he served as the Chairwoman’s Wireless and Public Safety legal advisor. He joined the Chairwoman’s office from the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, where he served as legal and policy advisor to the Bureau Chief. Previously, Mr. Lucarelli was Director of Regulatory & Public Policy at Inmarsat, a global satellite communications company. He began his legal career as an attorney in the Telecommunications, Media, and Technology group at law firm Wiley Rein LLP, where he represented diverse clients on a range of wireless, satellite, and international telecommunications matters.

Mr. Lucarelli earned his JD with highest honors from George Washington University Law School and a Bachelor of Science in Communications from the University of Illinois. He lives with his wife Victoria and their dog, Moxie, in Alexandria, Virginia.

An expert on spectrum management and business planning, Marc also regularly advises clients on highly strategic projects, from market transactions and vendor negotiations to expert witness projects.

Marc has worked in the telecoms industry for over 10 years, advising fixed and mobile operators, as well as regulators and financial institutions. During this period, Marc has supported numerous mobile operators in developing 4G and 5G spectrum strategies, valuing key spectrum assets and preparing for and bidding in spectrum auctions. In addition to his work on spectrum management, Marc regularly supports operators with the development and review of (5G) business plans.

Marc is often asked to advise on other projects of strategic importance – he has successfully supported clients as an expert witness, and he has provided insights during the preparation of major transactions. Furthermore, he has supported mobile operators in the vendor negotiation process, analysing offers and identifying areas to improve the value of the deal to his clients.

Marc has a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Infonomics, both from Universiteit Maastricht.

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 has closely engaged for the UK on a number of key European regulatory initiatives in the field of electronic communications and participates in many European spectrum groups. He leads UK engagement with the ITU and led the UK delegations to WRCs in 2019, 2015 and 2012. He is currently preparing to lead the UK delegation to WRC-23.

In 2019 Mr Woolford took on the role of Chairman of the Electronic Communications Committee (ECC) of CEPT and was re-elected for a second term in 2022. He has also been a Director of the International Institute of Communications since 2018.

Mr Woolford has 25 years’ experience of working on spectrum and communications regulation, both at Ofcom and its predecessor (Oftel). He has a degree in mathematics and statistics from Manchester University.

Jonas Wessel is Director of the Spectrum Department at the Swedish Post and Telecom Agency (PTS). He is also Chair of the Radio Spectrum Policy Group (RSPG) for the 2018-2019 period. The RSPG is a high-level advisory group that assists the European Commission in the development of radio spectrum policy. Jonas holds a MSC from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Industrial Engineering and Management. Jonas started his professional career as a strategy consultant, working mainly with business development in the telecoms and IT-sector.

In 2003, he joined the PTS as advisor on radio spectrum policy issues. After several positions within the Agency, including responsibility for auctions, he was assigned Director of the Spectrum Department in 2014. Jonas has been one of the driving forces behind the transformation of spectrum management in Sweden and has also been working with these issues internationally, mainly through the RSPG where he has been a delegate since 2004. He was Vice Chairman of the RSPG for the 2016-2017 period.

Glyn Carter’s expertise spans a range of areas, including technology strategy, spectrum and other regulatory issues, standards, and the specification and procurement of voice and data terminals and services. Glyn’s knowledge of mobile telecoms technologies includes LTE, UMTS/HSPA, CDMA/EV-DO, GSM/GPRS and TETRA.

Glyn currently works in the Future Spectrum team at GSMA, preparing for the next ITU World Radio Communication Conference (WRC). In particular, Glyn is developing technical studies into compatibility and sharing between mobile and other services in spectrum bands. Before joining the GSMA in February 2012, Glyn spent over 10 years working for mobile operators in countries including Portugal, Romania and the UK.

As a consultant, Glyn has participated in numerous projects for regulators, operators and users of telecommunications, including replanning the radio spectrum in South Africa and other spectrum management projects for regulators in the UK, Japan, Sweden and Jordan. Glyn also undertook spectrum compatibility studies in CEPT and was editor of ECC Report 42 on spectrum efficiency. Before this, Glyn designed communication terminal products for Racal Electronics. Glyn has a bachelor of science degree in mathematics and a PhD in cryptography from London University.

Glyn Carter’s expertise spans a range of areas, including technology strategy, spectrum and other regulatory issues, standards, and the specification and procurement of voice and data terminals and services. Glyn’s knowledge of mobile telecoms technologies includes LTE, UMTS/HSPA, CDMA/EV-DO, GSM/GPRS and TETRA.

Glyn currently works in the Future Spectrum team at GSMA, preparing for the next ITU World Radio Communication Conference (WRC). In particular, Glyn is developing technical studies into compatibility and sharing between mobile and other services in spectrum bands. Before joining the GSMA in February 2012, Glyn spent over 10 years working for mobile operators in countries including Portugal, Romania and the UK.

As a consultant, Glyn has participated in numerous projects for regulators, operators and users of telecommunications, including replanning the radio spectrum in South Africa and other spectrum management projects for regulators in the UK, Japan, Sweden and Jordan. Glyn also undertook spectrum compatibility studies in CEPT and was editor of ECC Report 42 on spectrum efficiency. Before this, Glyn designed communication terminal products for Racal Electronics. Glyn has a bachelor of science degree in mathematics and a PhD in cryptography from London University.

Diane leads strategic public policy for Cisco in the European Union, including sustainability (climate, circular economy, skills, governance) telecoms regulation (spectrum, Wifi, 5G), trade and tax policies, as well as platform regulation. Diane started at Cisco in May 2021 and is based in Brussels.

Diane has over 12 years of diverse experience across government and technology public affairs. Prior to joining Cisco, she was Senior Trade Manager at Samsung, she also held various postings in the Cabinets of two Ministers of the Walloon Government in Belgium.

Eiman Mohyeldin is the global Head of Spectrum Standardization for Nokia, responsible for defining and executing Nokia’s spectrum strategy and leading Nokia’s engagement on spectrum matters with customers, regulators, authorities, and partners in the ecosystem worldwide. She is actively involved in the World Radio Conference (WRC) process, participating in the WRC conferences and preparatory meetings (CPM). Eiman has also contributed to and led groups for the IMT technology process (4G, 5G, and recently 6G) in ITU and CEPT. Eiman is Co-Coordinator in CEPT NOW4WRC23 promoting gender equity and parity in CEPT and ITU.

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After a state exam of law at the University of Osnabrück, Mr Kühn has been working since 1998 in the area of legal internship (e.g. at Regional Court) of the Federal Network Agency, Germany; changing to national and international spectrum regulation on different levels in 2005. Nowadays he is the deputy head of section for international affairs and utilization concepts. His responsibilities cover strategic frequency utilization concepts and the transposition of those to the international level of CEPT, EU and ITU. Doing this and having been active in the preparation of three WRC’s, national and on CEPT CPG level, Mr Kühn participated in a number of international Groups, also as Head of the German Delegation. He has also chaired several groups and subgroups in the ITU and CEPT. Since 2005 he is responsible for national preparation of the WRC’s and served as CPG Vice-Chairman from 2010 to 2013 and as CPG chairman from 2013 to 2015. Mr Kühn has been appointed as Chairman of the CEPT CPG in March 2016.

An engineer with broad experience in the telecoms and technology sectors, Andy has a particular interest in spectrum (auctions and valuation) and the impact of new technology (5G, AI, IoT and Big Data). He brings a deep understanding of both the industry and regulatory perspectives around the world through his role as Head of Policy for the GSMA and as Director of Spectrum Policy at Ofcom.

Andy spent 12 years at Vodafone, where he held various senior product development and corporate strategy roles. As Head of Spectrum, he was responsible for managing spectrum policy and auctions across the Vodafone Group. He led over twenty spectrum auctions around the world (including Turkey, Italy, Germany, India, Spain, Italy, Greece, Australia, Romania, NL and UK) from strategy/business case development to Plc. Board level sign-off and in-country implementation.

He was formerly a management consultant, has launched an internet payments and encryption company and worked as a research scientist at Sharp Laboratories of Europe and Sony Corporation, based in Japan. He has a doctorate in Engineering Science from Oxford University and an MBA. He is a frequent invited speaker at international conferences.

Agustín Díaz-Pinés is a telecommunications expert at DG Competition, European Commission, dealing with mergers in the telecommunications, IT and media sectors.

He previously worked as an economist and policy analyst at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD, Paris, 2009–2015) in the Digital Economy Division, including projects on international mobile roaming, convergence, and various country studies (Mexico, Colombia).

He started his career at the Spanish government (State Secretariat for Telecommunications and the Information Society), involved in national and European ICT policy. Mr. Díaz-Pinés holds a Masters in Telecommunications Engineering from the Madrid University of Technology and a PhD in Management/Economic Sciences from École Polytechnique/Paris-Saclay in Paris (France).

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Richard has 30 years’ experience working in technology, policy, and regulatory roles in telecom and media. An engineer by background, he has practical experience in digital infrastructure design and deployment.

At Ofcom, he is leading work to understand the radio spectrum requirements of next-generation wireless technologies, such as 6G, and understanding how wireless connectivity can facilitate innovation in industrial verticals.

Axel holds a Diploma in electrical engineering from the Technical University Munich and a PhD from the University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich in the area of

microelectronics. 

Before he joined Shure’s Spectrum & Regulatory Affairs department, he worked in Sennheiser’s research department, focusing on new wireless technologies, RF system design, hardware development, and standardization work in the field of wireless audio transmission. From 1999 to 2003, he joined Infineon Technologies, where he worked on the development of GSM transceiver circuits.

Dr. Schulz has more than 40 years’ experience in Mobile Communication Services, Research & Innovation, Product and Solution Creation Processes: Terminal & Infrastructure, Spectrum, Prototyping, Standardization, National/International Collaboration and Product oriented Research (PoR). He is an earnest practitioner of European leadership and supporting the global standardization unification.
In 1988 he joined the Mobile Network Division at Siemens AG, Munich. He was a member of the GSM standardization group. From 1992 to 1993 he was a professor of telecommunication at University of Applied Sciences of Darmstadt, Germany. In 1993 he was a director for System Engineering for RITL and wireless PBX systems based on DECT and WB-CDMA. From 1998 he was involved in the UMTS standardization and after that he was involved in research and prototyping for LTE/LTE-A and in the first real-time MIMO-OFDM 1Gbit/s transmission.
In 2009 Dr. Schulz joined the Huawei’s Wireless Innovation Center in Munich. He was strongly engaged in 5G research in particular in 5GPPP projects for designing, validation and verification. He has a clear view of European wireless research & development and published numerous papers.
Dr. Schulz has been committed to the 6G-IA Board since he was first elected to its board in 2016. He is fully dedicated to perform well this important task in a collaborative and transparent, neutral and open manner to all partners, directly or indirectly involved in 6G-IA. He is actively engaged in 6G-IA’s strategic actions and working groups such as R&I Work Programme, Policy. He also actively participated in numerous 5G-PPP projects, SNS Phase I Project, and national projects. Moreover, he is the Board member of NetworldEurope and actively contribute to the NetworldEurope SRIAs.
Dr. Schulz’s current research work focuses on 6G. His main activities are designing and structuring Huawei’s internal and external 6G research activities.

Experienced Global Senior Policy, Regulatory, Market Access Lead with a demonstrated history of working in telecommunications, space, satellite and technology. Skilled in negotiation, wireless Technologies (5G, IoT), telecommunications, roaming, and strategy. Experienced and well developed relationships within ITU, governments and regional telecom organisations (ATU, APT, CEPT, CITEL, CTU). Comfortable operating in often ambiguous circumstances, managing complex and detailed issues, across a wide range of stakeholders. Strong economic, business and legal professional graduated from College of Law, London.

Soren Tang Sorensen is a London-based economist with more than 15 years of experience advising clients on auction design and bidding strategy in auctions. He has extensive experience with spectrum auctions, having advised clients on spectrum auctions in more than 40 countries in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and North America. Dr. Sorensen helps his clients with auction design and implementation and provides advice on bidding strategies for mobile network operators. He frequently provides on-site strategy support during live auctions, and he has experience with all common auction formats for spectrum auctions, including Combinatorial Clock Auction (CCA), Combinatorial Multiple Round Auction (CMRA), Simultaneous Multiple Round Auction (SMRA), Clock Auction (CA), First/Second Price Sealed Bid Auction (FPSB/SPSB), and various hybrid auction formats.

Dr. Sorensen has developed software for complex optimisation problems. He has developed integer programming algorithms that have been adapted to winner and price determination problems for more than 20 combinatorial auctions; he has implemented satisfiability algorithms to analyse the spectrum re-packaging problem in the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) Incentive Auction; and he has implemented graph and network algorithms for optimising fixed line telecommunications networks using GIS data.

In addition to his work on spectrum auctions, Dr. Sorensen has advised clients on auction design and bidding strategies in diverse markets including natural gas (gas and gas storage capacity); electricity (capacity markets, procurement, and interconnector capacity); renewable energy (offshore wind sites and contract for difference contracts); water abstraction rights; airport slots; TV broadcasting licences; rough diamonds; industrial procurement; and horse racing courses.

Dr. Sorensen specialised in microeconomics, game theory, and auction design during his PhD. He published part of his PhD thesis in Economics Letters and has co-authored a chapter on CCA for the Handbook of Spectrum Auctions, published by Cambridge University Press. He is also a frequent speaker at industry conferences on spectrum policy.

Branimir is responsible for developing and implementing EU-level policy initiatives with focus on wireless broadband and broadcasting. These relate to harmonised and flexible use of spectrum, in particular for mobile broadband, as well as a long-term strategy for the future use of UHF broadcasting spectrum, including the 700 MHz band. He has coordinated the work of the Radio Spectrum Committee.

Branimir has been working with the European Commission since 2008.

He started his professional career in 1995 at the Vodafone Chair for Mobile Communications Systems at the Dresden University, Germany. From 2000 until 2008 he worked with the companies Philips, Qimonda and Signalion in Germany in the area of wireless equipment design, manufacturing and marketing.

Branimir has a PhD degree in mobile communications from the Dresden University. He has made contributions to Wi-Fi standardization.

Dr. Heidi Himmanen is a Chief Adviser at the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency Traficom. She is co-chairing the 6G work in the Radio Spectrum Policy Group and has been contributing to the IMT-2030 framework in ITU-R. Her task is to promote the uptake of 5G in different sectors of society, such as transport, cities, and industry. The work includes supporting trials, innovation, and R&D, bridging the needs of industries and verticals, and the development work in spectrum management.

Heidi has previously worked as Head of Spectrum Supervision and Head of the Radio Networks Unit at the Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority (today Traficom). She holds a Dr. Sc. degree in Communications Engineering from University of Turku and a M. Sc. degree in Communications Engineering from Helsinki University of Technology (today Aalto University).

Eric Fournier is currently Director for Spectrum Planning and International Affairs in the Agence Nationale des Fréquences (ANFR), the French public agency in charge of spectrum management (www.anfr.fr).

In this capacity, he is responsible for preparing the revisions of the French national table of spectrum allocation and for coordinating French positions in international meetings and conferences on spectrum within ITU, CEPT and EU. He was deputy head of the French delegation for RRC-06, WRC-07, WRC-12, WRC-15 and WRC-19.

He is currently chairman of the RSPG, a high-level advisory group that assists the European Commission in the development of radio spectrum policy. He has been involved in all discussions on major evolutions of spectrum in Europe and was Chairman of the Electronic Communication Committee (CEPT/ECC) from 2013 to 2018 and of the European Conference Preparatory Group for the World Radiocommunications Conference 2012 (CPG-12).
Eric is a graduate telecom engineer from SUPELEC (France).

Erika Tejedor is Director of Government and Industry relations at Ericsson and focuses on ensuring harmonized future spectrum availability for 5G globally. She has been with Ericsson for over 10 years and during this time, she has focused on spectrum from different perspectives: research, product development, 3GPP RAN4 standardization, spectrum regulation. At the moment, Erika focuses on ITU-R activities and coordinates spectrum related work among the different regions.

Started off as a CIS Officer in the Royal Netherlands Air Force serving at Operational F-16 Air Bases as well as in a variety of Staff functions both in Operations as well as Plans. After graduating from the Air Forces’ Command and Staff College, served as a Financial Planner and Deputy Program Manager of an Air Force wide IT System aiming to modernize the entirety of the Air Forces’ IT Infrastructure. After a tour as national C3 representative at the Netherlands Delegation in NATO HQ, joined the NATO Headquarters C3 Staff, first as a Staff Officer in the (now) Spectrum and C3 Infrastructure Branch and later as Branch Head. In this capacity directly involved in a number of security related projects such as SCIP, NINE, Secure Voice.

Elena Scaramuzzi leads regulatory services and research activities with a global reach. At Cullen International since 2009, Ms. Scaramuzzi has led and contributed to new service developments, including, more recently, the Global Trends service, covering the most wide-ranging trends shaping the future of the communications sector. Most of Ms. Scaramuzzi’s previous work at Cullen International focused on regulatory research in the Americas.

With over 25 years’ work experience in the sector, before joining Cullen International, Ms. Scaramuzzi worked for Telecom Italia and the World Bank.

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