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Director, Wireless Regulatory Policy EMEA, managing the wireless regulation issues within Huawei Wireless Strategies & Business Development Department.
Alessandro holds a master degree in electronic engineering from Rome University.
During the period 2008 to 2010, Alessandro worked in Huawei LTE Product Line departments with special focus on the European regulation matters.
Prior to joining Huawei, Alessandro held several marketing and technical positions in Mediaset broadcasting company (2006 – 2007), Siemens mobile communications (2002 – 2006) and Accenture ICT consulting company (2000 – 2002).

Stefan Zehle is the co-founder and CEO of Coleago. He has 29 years’ experience in telecoms consulting and as Director of a mobile operating company. He specialises in strategy and business planning, spectrum related issues such as spectrum policy, valuation and auctions, and telecoms regulatory topics. He gained his experience working in developed markets in Europe, Canada and the US and also in emerging markets in the Middle East, Africa, and the Far East.

As Director of Strategy, Marketing and Regulatory Affairs, Stefan launched the third mobile operator in Algeria. He developed the strategy, designed the organisation chart, recruited other Directors and 200 staff, built the Sales and Marketing department, oversaw the development of distribution and the offer, and managed the brand creation. He also successfully challenged the regulatory status quo, transforming the interconnect landscape in Algeria by introducing best practice interconnect agreements for the first time. He filed regulatory complaints, winning million dollar cost savings.

Stefan is also the co-author of “Guide to Business Planning”, published by “The Economist”, now in its second edition (“Outstanding Academic Title, 2009” awarded by Choice, the US academic reviewers) and is an experienced conference speaker, chairing the Ministerial Programme session at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Stefan holds an MBA (with distinction) awarded by the University of Westminster in 1991 and speaks French, English, and German.

Glyn Carter is Senior Spectrum Advisor at the GSMA, where his main focus since he joined in 2012 has been on future spectrum. This includes preparatory activities for WRCs, including sharing and compatibility studies and other preparatory activities in ITU-R and CEPT. It also includes wider activities related to future spectrum for mobile broadband, including availability of spectrum for 5G and progressing of bands identified at WRC-15 in ITU-R and CEPT.
Glyn has been involved in spectrum management for over 20 years. Prior to GSMA, this included working as a consultant for regulators in countries including the UK, South Africa, Sweden, Japan and Jordan. He has also worked for mobile operators in countries including the UK, Romania and Portugal, where his responsibilities included technology strategy, terminals and mobile data services, as well as regulatory activities and standards. Glyn has a BSc in mathematics and a PhD in cryptography from London University.

Baxton Sirewu is a professional telecommunication engineer, currently serving in the Administration of Zimbabwe as Director Technical Services for POTRAZ, the country’s Postal and Telecommunications Regulator.

Within the ATU, Baxton is the Chairman of the Task Group on Emerging Technologies – whose remit include the development of recommendations on harmonised implementation of 5G in Africa.

At the ITU he follows the work of WP 5D wherein he is the rapporteur for ATU and is the Chairman of the sub-working Group responsible for studies relating to WRC – 23 agenda item 1.1 (IMT in the 4800 – 4990 MHz band).

Program manager, Geyser-Telecom, Ltd. Russian Federation.

RCC co-coordinator on AI 1.2 of WRC-23,  RCC coordinator on AI 1.3 of WRC-23.

Spectrum Regulation Expert of Satellite and Terrestrial Services.

Full Professor of “Combinatorial Optimization” at the Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering “Antonio Ruberti” of the University of Rome “Sapienza”, Italy. Has been consultant of the Italian Government and the National Regulators (AGCOM, AGCM) in many decisions concerning management and awarding of Spectrum. Has been President of the Monitoring Trustee (“Organo di Vigilanza”) overseeing the parity of Access to the Network of the incumbent operator (Telecom Italia). He is currently President of “Fondazione Ugo Bordoni”, the “in house” independent foundation which assists the Italian Public Administration on all the ICT issues. His research activity is focused on the methods of Combinatorial Optimization and in their applications to Spectrum Management, Network Design and Data Mining.

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.

Before joining Ofcom, Chris worked in various UK Government Departments, including 6 years at Oftel, where he worked on different aspects of telecommunications regulation. Chris has a degree in mathematics and statistics from Manchester University.

Jan Engelberg is Senior Advisor working for Digital Connections/ Digital Infrastructure unit at Traficom. He has been working at Traficom and its predecessors since 2000, starting as Radio Network Specialist. He has been involved in mobile communications all this time, main responsibilities have been national licensing, cross-border frequency coordination, spectrum auctions and international work in various groups at CEPT, ITU-R and European Commission. He has been participating World Radiocommunications Conference preparatory processes (national and international) and conferences since 2007. He was Finland’s national coordinator on Agenda Item 1.13 (Spectrum for 5G) in the WRC-19. Jan received his Bachelor’s degree in 1996 and Master’s degree in 2010 on Telecommunications.

Šarūnas Oberauskas has been successfully fulfilling a wide range of responsibilities related to radiocommunication systems within fixed and mobile services since 2005 when he was employed at RRT. Over the last 10 years he gained experience in performing electromagnetic compatibility analysis and has highly contributed to development of bilateral coordination agreements with neighbouring countries. Due to his performance and abilities in solving regulatory issues he was assigned to represent national interests in CEPT (ECC PT1, CPG PTD) and ITU-R (JTG 5-6, JTG 4-5-6-7, TG 5/1, WP 5D) groups. Šarūnas was a member of Lithuanian delegation for WRC-12, WRC-15 and WRC-19. He was also a CEPT coordinator team member for WRC-19 Agenda item 1.13. His versatile communications skills have been well recognized and since 2018 he chairs a sub-working group in ECC PT1. Šarūnas is also a chairman of a drafting group in ITU-R WP 5D.

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.

Eiman Mohyeldin is a Senior Specialist Spectrum Regulation at Nokia.

Eiman has twenty years of a professional experience in radio research and spectrum regulation and standardization in Siemens, Nokia Siemens Networks, Nokia Networks, and lately Nokia. She is based in Germany, in 2007 she joined the standardization and spectrum team group’s, focusing on spectrum aspects, in particular participating in CEPT, ATU and ITU-R meetings. She is actively involved in the WRC process, participating in the WRC Conferences and preparatory meetings (CPM)

Eiman started her career in 2001 in radio research, focusing on the development of 4G/IMT-A in research and regulation, including participation in various European-funded projects with project management and task leadership positions. She holds a M.Sc. in Communications Engineering from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in 2000.

Glyn Carter is Senior Spectrum Advisor at the GSMA, where his main focus since he joined in 2012 has been on future spectrum. This includes preparatory activities for WRCs, including sharing and compatibility studies and other preparatory activities in ITU-R and CEPT. It also includes wider activities related to future spectrum for mobile broadband, including availability of spectrum for 5G and progressing of bands identified at WRC-15 in ITU-R and CEPT.
Glyn has been involved in spectrum management for over 20 years. Prior to GSMA, this included working as a consultant for regulators in countries including the UK, South Africa, Sweden, Japan and Jordan. He has also worked for mobile operators in countries including the UK, Romania and Portugal, where his responsibilities included technology strategy, terminals and mobile data services, as well as regulatory activities and standards. Glyn has a BSc in mathematics and a PhD in cryptography from London University.