Speaker Biographies

Speakers

Moderators

Dauren Abayev

Minister, Ministry of Information and Communication, Republic of Kazakhstan

Dauren Abayev
Was born on April 18, 1979.
Graduated from Kazakh National Al-Farabi University (2001) and Leiden University (2006). Proficient in Kazakh, Russian, and English.
2001 to 2003: Junior Officer, Attaché, Secretary in Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Kazakhstan.
2003: Third Secretary of the Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan to Azerbaijan.
2003 to 2007: Second Secretary, Charge d’Affaires a.i. of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the Netherlands.
2007: Head of Press-Service Department in Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Kazakhstan.
2007 to 2009: Expert, Protocol Consultant of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Deputy Press-Secretary of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
2009 to 2011: State Inspector in Presidential Administration of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
From 2011 – Press-Secretary, Counselor to the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
On May 6 of 2016, he was appointed Minister of Information and Communication, Republic of Kazakhstan.

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.

Victor Strelets

Member, Radio Regulations Board (RRB)

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.

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

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.

Iryna Pokhabova

Associate Professor of the Department of Telecommunication Systems and Networks, State University of Telecommunication, Ukraine

Iryna Pokhabova was born in1991 in Kyiv, Ukraine.
From 2008 till 2014 studied at the State University of Telecommunications, Department of Telecommunicatins, specialty of Telecommunication systems and networks and got a dachelor’s and master’s degree.

From 2012 till 2014 studied at the State University of Telecommunications, Department of Management, specialty of Organizational and administrative management and got master’s degree.
From 2014 till 2016 studied at the State University of Telecommunications as postgraguated student, Department of Telecommunications and got Ph.D. degree.
From 2014 till present she has been working at the State University of Telecommunications in a position of Head of students social and educational problems department and at the same time from 2016 till the present she has been working as an assistant professor of the Telecommunication systems and networks department.

Konstantin Savin

Senior Technology Manager, GSMA

Vincenzo Lobianco

Chief Technology and Innovation Officer , Agcom

Vincenzo Lobianco is in AGCOM, the Italian NRA, from year 2000. Currently he is Chief Technology and innovation Officer. In his role, he reports directly to the AGCOM Board, carrying out studies and investigations and providing advices on technical and regulatory issues related to electronic communication networks and infrastructures and radio spectrum. Before holding the post of Chief Technology and Information Officer, Vincenzo Lobianco has been, from 2006 to 2014, Director of the Electronic Communication Network and Services Directorate of AGCOM charged, inter alia, for regulating wholesale telecommunications markets, NGA networks, for the approval of Telecom Italia Reference Interconnection Offers (RIO), the preparation of frequency and numbering assignment plans, for the monitoring and the enforcement of AGCOM decisions, in wholesale telecommunication markets, for the evaluation of regulatory accounting systems of notified operators and for dispute resolutions between telecom operators.
Vincenzo Lobianco represented Italy in the Radio Spectrum Policy Group of EU and in several international frequency coordination meetings and events.
Vincenzo Lobianco holds an MS in Electronic Engineering. Before joining AGCOM, he worked for the Ministry of Communication from 1985 to 1999 and for the European Commission (1995-1998). He also served as member of the ETSI Board from 1999 to 2002.

Stefan Zehle

CEO, Coleago Consulting

Stefan Zehle, MBA, (CEO) Stefan is a co-founder of Coleago, was a Director Strategy, Marketing and Regulatory Affairs of a mobile operator. With 28 years telecoms experience, he is an expert in telecoms marketing strategy, spectrum valuation, and business planning. Stefan was responsible for many successful mobile licence bids and spectrum auctions and worked in 40 countries in developed and emerging markets. Stefan holds an MBA with distinction. Co-author of the Economist’s Guide to Business Planning.

Timur Kadyrov

Engineer in the Space Services Department (SSD) at the 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.

Stanislav Kizima

ITU expert, Russian Federation

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.

Ulrich Rehfuess

Head of Spectrum Policy , Nokia

Ulrich Rehfuess holds a diploma degree in Electrical Engineering of Technical University of Munich, Germany and one in Industrial Engineering of Fernuniversität Hagen, Germany. Of his more than 20 years of professional experience in Siemens, Nokia Siemens Networks and lately Nokia Networks, he spent more than 15 years in R&D, business strategy, system architecture and product management of mobile radio network systems covering GSM, EDGE, UMTS with HSPA, Flash OFDM, WiMAX, LTE and LTE Advanced. Starting June 2011, he assumed responsibility for spectrum policy and regulation within Nokia Networks' industry environment team. Ulrich Rehfuess is vice chair of the BITKOM Spectrum working group in Germany and chairs the DIGITALEUROPE spectrum working group in Brussels.

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.

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.

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.

Gulam Abdullayev

Chief adviser of the Telecommunication sector, Ministry of Transport, Telecommunication and High Technologies of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

Abdullayev Gulam Nadir ogly
Was born on August 30, 1974.

Graduated from Polytechnic University of Mingechaur (1996), Azerbaijan Technical University (1999).

Working experience:
Leading engineer at PU "Teleradio" - 1996-2000 Teacher at Azerbaijan Technical University - 1997-2001 Chief adviser on radiofrequency management and broadcasting at Telecommunication sector, the MTCHT - 2000-present

Duties and responsibilities: development of the TV/radio Broadcasting in the Republic of Azerbaijan, international frequency coordination, implementation of policy for planning, allocation and effective use of the radio spectrum by radio-electronic devices and services, development draft position of the Communication Administration of the Republic of Azerbaijan for WRC of ITU and other international meetings, relationship with BR of ITU.

Chen Dong

Head of Industry Development of Wireless Emerging Marketing., Huawei

Mr. Chen Dong is the head of Industry development of Wireless Emerging Marketing. In his role, he promotes supportive ICT policy and drives eco-system to adapt sustainable growth for ICT industry.
He has 21 years of experience in Information and Communication Technique (ICT) at Huawei, Alcatel-Lucent and a large scale enterprise.
He holds a master degree in computer science from university electronics and science technologies of China.

Dmitry Polpudenko

Representative , GSA

1991 - 1996 : Graduated from Telecommunication University, St.Peterburg, Russia;
1996 – 1997 : MPEG Digital Signal Processing Laboratory, DSP Programmer;
1997 – 2013 : JSC MegaFon, 2rd Largest Cellular Operator in Russia, various positions in technical division, with focus on radio and core network;
2013 – 2015 : St.Petersrbug State University Of Telecommunication, Research division, Wireless Networks Researcher;
2015 – up to now : Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., CA&C Wireless Solution Sales Department, Executive Product Manager.
Key responsibilities: wireless product promotion, high level customer communication, marketing research.

Richard Womersley

Director of Spectrum Consulting, LS telcom

Richard is director of spectrum consulting 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.

Valery O. 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.

Chris Woolford

Representative , RSPG

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.

Ulrich Rehfuess

Representative , GSA

Ulrich Rehfuess holds a diploma degree in Electrical Engineering of Technical University of Munich, Germany and one in Industrial Engineering of Fernuniversität Hagen, Germany. Of his more than 20 years of professional experience in Siemens, Nokia Siemens Networks and lately Nokia Networks, he spent more than 15 years in R&D, business strategy, system architecture and product management of mobile radio network systems covering GSM, EDGE, UMTS with HSPA, Flash OFDM, WiMAX, LTE and LTE Advanced. Starting June 2011, he assumed responsibility for spectrum policy and regulation within Nokia Networks' industry environment team. Ulrich Rehfuess is vice chair of the BITKOM Spectrum working group in Germany and chairs the DIGITALEUROPE spectrum working group in Brussels.

Sergio Bovelli

Manager, Market Access and Regulation, Airbus

Sergio Bovelli, Ph.D. is Manager, Market Access and Regulation at Airbus Defence and Space in Germany. In his role Dr. Bovelli works closely with Administrations, Regulatory Authorities and Policy Makers in all regions to promote and develop new aeronautical and space technologies and communication.
With over 15 years of experience in aeronautics and space industry, he joined Airbus in 2005, where he held several positions, both technical and managerial. He is co-author of several scientific articles and holds a number of patents related to communication systems.
Sergio holds a PhD degree in “Information Engineering” and a Master degree on “Telecommunication Engineering”

Ruslan Utegenov

Head Of Technology, Ericsson

Bio to appear here shortly

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.

Valery Dotolev

Head of Department, Radio Research and Development Institute (FSUE NIIR)

Head of the frequency planning department for television and sound broadcasting of the Radio Research & Development Institute (NIIR), laureate of the Russian Federation Government Science and Technology Prize, more than 70 publications in national and international publications, proceedings of conferences and contributions to the ITU-R. During preparation and holding of the Regional Conference "Geneva 04/06" - Vice-Chairman of ITU-R Task Group 6/8.
Specialist in the field of:
• frequency planning of television and sound broadcasting,
• propagation of radio waves,
• management of the use of the radio-frequency spectrum.
• international legal protection of frequency assignments of the broadcasting service.

Yakov Gass

Head of Laboratory, FSUE NIIR, Russia

Bio to appear here shortly.

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 communications

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.

Mohammad Al Taani

Advisor for the Executive Office , Telecommunications Regulatory Authority in the Sultanate of Oman

Mohammad has over 34 years of experience in the ICT industry, during which he worked in the public and private sectors and gained distinctive knowledge and expertise in the technical, operational, strategic and regulatory aspects of the industry.
Prior to his current position as a Regulatory Advisor for the Executive Office in the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority in the Sultanate of Oman, Al Taani held the position of Chairman of the Board and CEO of the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission in Jordan.

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.

Matthew Fried

Senior Manager, , aetha Consulting

Matthew has over been working in telecoms since 2006, and whilst at Aetha has focussed mainly on the area of spectrum management. He has supported over 30 operators and governments across the Americas, Europe and Asia on issues such as spectrum valuation, spectrum strategy and business planning. In addition, he has advised operators on several multi-billion dollar M&A and debt financing transactions. Matthew has Bachelor degrees in both Engineering and Business from the University of Sydney, and a Masters in Technology Policy from Cambridge University.

Rizat Nurshabekov

CEO, “The State Radio Frequency Service” Republican Enterprise, Ministry of Transport and Communications of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Bio to appear here shortly.

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

Victor Strelets

Member, Radio Regulations Board (RRB)

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.