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ALISAL, Fabio del
ALLEN, James - Analysys
AW, Tudor - KPMG
AZIBERT, Michel - TDF
BARTHOLOMEW, Michael - ETNO
BENGTSSON, Jonas - Tele2 group
BLAKEMORE, John - Hutchison
BLONDEEL, Yves - T-REGS
BRODSKY, Paul - Telegeography
BRUMLEY, Robert - TerreStar Global Ltd
CADMAN, Richard - Strategy & Policy Consultants Network Ltd.
CASTILLO, Pilar del - European Parliament
CURRIE, Lord David - Ofcom
DANN, Jonathan - Bear Stearns
DARODES DE TAILLY, Antoine - French Competition Council
DOELEMAN, Jaap - Houthoff Burma N.V.
DOHERTY, John - Comreg
FORSYTH, Grant - BT Global Services
FRANKL, Michal - Czech Telecommunication Office
GABLA, Emmanuel - Ministere de l'Economie
GAUTHEY, Gabrielle - ARCEP
GODLOVITCH, Ilsa - ECTA
GUY, Jim - Arbinet-thexchange, Inc
HENSELER-UNGER, Dr Iris - BNetzA
HUKMARK, Gunnar - European Parliament
JANSA, Matjaz - Slovenian Ministry of Economy
KRUEGER, Reinald - European Commission
LAFRANCE, Ann - Squire,Sanders & Dempsey
LANGEHEINE, Bernd - EU Commission
LUITEN, Stephan - Liberty Global Europe B.V.
MADERO VILLAREJO, Cecilio - EU Commission
MORI, Kiyoshi - MIC Japanese Ministry
NEWMAN, Matthew - Bloomberg
NIEPOLD, Ruprecht - European Commission
PAPADIAS, Lambros - European Commission
PARISI, Stefano - Fastweb
PATTERSON, Dr. Ross - New Zealand Commerce Commission
PEPPER, Dr. Robert - Cisco
POWELL, Mark - White & Case
REDING, Viviane - EU Commission
SCOTT, Peter - European Commission
STUMPF, Ulrich - WIK Consulting
TALEVI, Tiziana - Fastweb
TAYLOR, Michael - Vonage
THOMAS, David - KPMG in the UK
TRICAUD, Emmanuel - COLT
VAN DEN BEUKEL, Jilles - KPN
VAN GAEVER, Alian - European Commission
VIOLA, Roberto - AGCOM
VONK, Ed - EVUA
WELLER, Dennis - Verizon
WHITE, Nick - INTUG

ALISAL, Fabio del
Head of International Department of CMT
Chair of Convergence Project Team, ERG and Harmonisation Working Group, REGULATEL

Mr. Del Alisal is the International Director of CMT, the Spanish Regulatory Authority. He is also Chairing the Convergence Project Team of the ERG (the European Regulatory Group) and co-Chairing the Harmonization Project Team of the ERG. Mr. Del Alisal also Chairs the Harmonization and Convergence Group of REGULATEL (the Latin-American Regulatory Gropu). Mr. Del Alisal is a Lawyer and has Master's degrees in "Business Administration (Telecommunications Sector)" and "International Affairs". Mr. Del Alisal previous professional experience includes working for the European Commission, in D.G.Comp., where he was a Member of the article 7 Task Force and Case-handler in different competition law cases.
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ALLEN, James
Principal Consultant
Analysys Consulting

James Allen is Head of Regulation at Analysys Consulting's Cambridge office. He has an in-depth knowledge of the telecoms market, including broadband fixed access, 3G mobile networks, and 'next generation' voice and data services. He has led projects dealing with a wide variety of current networking technologies, for clients spanning the telecoms industry - private equity, banks, equipment manufacturers, new entrant operators, incumbents, regulators, and policy makers.
He has recently worked on a range of topics such as the revision of the EU Framework; commercial due diligence on an incumbent telco; access technology choice; local loop costing; the economics of large scale deployment of DSL; price benchmarking; several large global market forecasting systems; service portfolio designs; and creating and reviewing business plans. More recently, he was the author of a major study for DG Infosoc, European Commission, on IP voice and associated convergent services, looking at these in the context of the new regulatory framework for electronic communications services.
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AW, Tudor
Partner
KPMG

Tudor is a Partner in KPMG's London office having just completed a four year secondment in the US where he was based in Washington DC and New York. He has over 20 years of audit, corporate finance and consulting experience, working with clients in the communications and media sectors where his main focus has been on helping clients manage risk, evaluate strategic opportunities and achieve operational improvements. He leads KPMG's digital services which encompasses development of thought leadership material and delivery of solutions to clients on the topics of convergence and digital content. Tudor has worked extensively on projects in the US, UK, Belgium, Germany as well as Antigua, Australia, France, Hong Kong, India, Pakistan and Singapore.
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AZIBERT, Michel
Deputy General Director
TDF

Michel Azibert is the Deputy CEO of the TDF Group.
He graduated with an engineering degree from Ecole Centrale de Paris, with a master of economy at Université de Paris I-Sorbonne and (top of the class) of the Ecole Nationale d'Administration (ENA).
He is a member of the Conseil d'Etat (Council of State, the French Supreme Administrative Court). He joined TDF in 1989 after taking a major role in drafting the French Media Law. Since then, he has been in charge of developing new business for TDF through external growth outside France (the TDF Group is now present in 7 European countries) and new services such as high speed internet or mobile TV. He is also in charge at TDF of regulatory and institutional affairs.
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BARTHOLOMEW, Michael
Director
ETNO

Michael Bartholomew was appointed director of the European Telecommunications Network Operators' Association (ETNO) in July 2000 and re-appointed in May 2003. ETNO is the main trade association for Europe's 41 largest e-communications operators located in 34 countries.
Mr. Bartholomew, based in the Belgian capital for the past 20 years, is a public affairs specialist in telecommunications, audiovisual, multimedia, trade and technology issues. As director of ETNO, he is responsible for running the Brussels-based secretariat. He oversees all working groups and develops public policy for Europe's largest telecom companies at the highest levels of government across the European Union and worldwide.
Prior to joining ETNO, Mr. Bartholomew served as Director for European Affairs for the Motion Picture Association that represents the global interests of Hollywood's major studios. A British citizen, Mr. Bartholomew also founded a Brussels public affairs consultancy, which he managed successfully for nine years.
With a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University in Illinois, he began his career as a journalist and has worked for the Associated Press, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and his columns on European affairs have been published in leading international newspapers.
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BENGTSSON, Jonas
Head of Group Legal & Regulatory
Tele2 group

Jonas has over 10 years experience within IT/telecommunication law. He graduated (LL.M.) from the University of Lund in 1995 and started working as a trainee in Swedish lawfirm Lagerlof & Leman in 1995. Served as junior judge in the Stockholm District Court 1996. Joined Swedish lawfirm Mannheimer Swartling as an associate in 1997. Started working as General Counsel for Utfors AB (publ) in 2000 and, in 2002, as General Counsel for Telenor AB (Swedish subsidiary). Thereafter Jonas has held various positions in Telenor AB before he started in his current position with Tele2 in 2007.
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BLAKEMORE, John
Director of European Regulatory Affairs
Hutchison

John Blakemore is Director of European Regulatory Affairs for the 3 Group, part of the Hutchison Whampoa Limited telecommunications division. In this capacity, he is responsible for representing the 3 Group businesses in Europe and has day-to-day contact with the European Institutions. John reports directly to Christian Salbaing, Managing Director - European Telecommunications of Hutchison Europe Telecommunications Limited.John coordinates the work of the 3 Group's European Regulatory Forum, which comprises the regulatory directors from each of the Group's 6 operating companies in the EU. In that role, he co-ordinates Group positions on regulatory topics and Group responses to consultations at the EU level.John has worked in the telecommunications industry for 6 years. Prior to that he was at the UK's competition authority, the Office of Fair Trading, where he was Chief Financial Analyst. There he was responsible for the financial analysis of competition cases involving abuses of dominance, anti-competitive agreements and mergers.John has a first degree in economics, an MSc in finance and is a qualified accountant. John is a British citizen.
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BLONDEEL, Yves
Managing Director
T-REGS bvba

Professional Activities - Yves Blondeel is the Chairman of the ECTA Implementation Group since its formation in 2003. The group monitors the transposition and implementation of EU directives, the market analysis process in the Member States, etc. and escalates major issues where this is deemed appropriate by ECTA members.
-1995-present: Founder and Managing Director of T-REGS b.v.b.a.
Specialist consultancy in telecommunications regulation, focusing on national telecommunications regulations in the EU Member States and in Switzerland and Norway, as well as EU-level regulation.
T-REGS conducts work for: Network operators and service providers developing/implementing regulatory strategies, launching new products, seeking regulatory clearance, rights-of-way, frequency rights-of-use, numbering resources, etc. wishing to negotiate interconnection and local loop access, etc.
Regulatory authorities seeking an independent review of drafts of regulations
Equipment suppliers and financial investors in the telecommunications sector
-1991-1994: Partner at Cullen International S.A. - Company specialised in ongoing monitoring and periodic reporting on telecommunications regulatory affairs.
-1990-1991: Student employment: Citicorp N/A. - Produced a set of reports on national telecommunications regulations, taking the perspective of an investor interested in privatization opportunities and the perspective of a large financial services company requiring top-quality telecommunications services throughout the world.
Diploma - Licentiaat Communicatiewetenschappen. Vrije Universiteit Brussel (1989).
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BRODSKY, Paul
Research Analyst
Telegeography

MR. BRODSKY is an analyst at TeleGeography, a telecommunications industry analysis and consulting firm in Washington, DC. His research has focused on the U.S. and European VoIP industry, including legal and regulatory issues, as well as subscriber and revenue trends. Mr. Brodsky has more than twelve years of telecommunications industry experience. Prior to joining TeleGeography, he served as Senior Manager of Radio-Frequency Engineering for Nextel Communications. He also served five years as an officer in the United States Navy. He holds a B.S.E. from the University of Pennsylvania.
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BRUMLEY, Robert
CEO
TerreStar Global Ltd

Robert H. Brumley is the Chairman and CEO of TerreStar Global Ltd and is the CEO and a Director of TerreStar Corporation, its majority shareholder.
Mr. Brumley brings extensive telecommunications, security and transactional experience, both domestic and international, to TerreStar.
He previously served as President & CEO of Pegasus Global, an international firm he co-founded specializing in telecommunications, technology, infrastructure development and aerospace/defense. He held senior executive positions with global communications firms such as Deutsche Telekom and Bell Atlantic International where he was responsible for Bell Atlantic's international telecommunications transactions worldwide, including its participation in Constellation Communications, Inc., a low earth orbit satellite venture.
Mr. Brumley served as General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Commerce from 1987 to 1989, where he was chief legal officer of the Department and senior policy advisor to the Secretary. Between 1983 and 1989 he also served on senior-level working groups of the National Security, Domestic and Economic Policy Councils and chaired the policy group that privatized commercial space transportation.
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CADMAN, Richard
Director
Strategy & Policy Consultants Network Ltd.

Richard Cadman is a senior strategy, policy, and regulatory economics consultant specialising in the electronic communications industry. He has a BA from York University in Politics and Economics, and has completed his Masters degree in Competition and Regulation Policy at the University of East Anglia, Centre for Competition Policy. Richard has over ten years experience as a consultant. Before establishing SPC Network in 2003, Richard was Deputy Chief Executive of the Eurodata Foundation, which became Teligen Ltd, prior to which he held several posts in telecoms and IT companies.
SPC Network is a leading policy and regulatory economics consultancy based in the UK. Utilising an international network of highly qualified and experienced consultants, SPC Network works for many major telecommunications operators and groupings. Amongst our clients are: Cable & Wireless, BT Global Services, Virgin Media, CompTel, the European Competitive Telecoms Association (ECTA) and NGNuk, and industry body assessing the requirements of NGN development in the UK.
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CASTILLO, Pilar del
MEP
European Parliament

ACADEMIC BACKGROND: Law degree (Universidad de Complutense: 1974). Fulbright scholarship(Ohio State University 1981-1982), Masters Degree in political science (Ohio State University, 1982). PhD in law (Universidad Complutense de Madrid 1983). Associate Professor of constitutional law (Universidad Española de Educaciõn a Distancia, UNED, 1986). Professor of political science (1994).
INSTITUTIONAL ACTIVITIES: Editor of the Director of the New Magazine of Politics, Culture and Art (Nueva Revista de Poli­tica, Cultura y Arte) 1995-1996. President of the Sociological Research Centre (Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas) (1996-2000). Minister of Education, Culture and Sport, 2000-2004. Member of Parliament for the constituency of Granada (March- July 2004). Member of the European Parliament. Vice-coordinator of the EPP-ED group in the ITRE committee. Member of the Temporary Committee of Climate Change. Member of the "Board of Governors" of the European Internet Foundation. Author of publications on such topics as comparative electoral behaviour, political parties and political and public behaviour. Among the publications: "La financiaciõn de partidos y candidatos en las democracias occidentales", Madrid, Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas, 1985. "Comportamiento poli­tico y electoral" (Ed), Madrid, Centro de Investigaciones sociológicas, 1994. " Cultura y poliica" (Ed), Valencia, Tirant lo Blanch, 1997. "La Financiaciõn de la Poli­tica en Iberoamérica" (Ed), San José de Costa Rica, Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos, Centro de Asesor­a y Promoción Electoral, 1998.
Award for PhD given by the Sociological Research Centre (1984). Member of various national and international political science and sociology.
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CURRIE, Lord David
Chairman
OFCOM

David Currie was named in July 2002 as the inaugural Chairman of the new regulator for the communications sector, Ofcom. This appointment followed a long and distinguished career in economics, including roles in regulation, academia, the private sector and advising governments.
A well-known figure in international economic policy, David Currie has published extensively in the field of government regulation of industry and of macroeconomic policy. He was Dean of Cass Business School (2001-2007), and Professor of Economics (1988-2000) and Deputy Dean (1992-95, 1999-2000) at London Business School and Director of its Centre for Economic Forecasting (1988-95) and Regulation Initiative (1995-2000).
David has previously served on the Board of Ofgem (the UK energy regulator) and on the Board of Abbey National, as well as on a variety of UK government advisory bodies including the Treasury's Panel of Independent Forecasters (the "Wise Men"). He is a Board member of the Dubai Financial Services Authority. He sits on the cross-benches in the House of Lords as Lord Currie of Marylebone.
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DANN, Jonathan
Managing Director European Wireline
Bear Stearns

Jonathan Dann joined Bear Stearns in December 2002 as Managing Director responsible for coverage of the European wireline sector. Prior to Bear Stearns he had been at HSBC since 2000, where he built up the European alternative-operator product in 2000, moving to co-lead coverage of the European wireline sector in 2001. At HSBC, Jonathan ranked first in both Continental and UK wireline in the Reuters 2001 survey, and was rated for accuracy in 2002 and 2003 by Starmine and Extel.
Prior to HSBC, Jonathan worked for four years at Universities Superannuation Scheme Ltd. in London as a buyside European equities analyst, contributing to top decile performance of the fund in 1998 and 1999. He holds a PhD degree for chemistry from University College London.
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DARODES DE TAILLY, Antoine
Rapporteur auprès du Conseil de la concurrence
French Competition Council

ADT is currently Case Handler at the French Competition Authority (Conseil de la concurrence), appointed in this position by the Ministrer of Economy in June 2004. He is dealing with antitrust cases in telecom markets (investigation / litigation) and is regularly involved in the preparation of the Competition Council's opinions to the French Regulatory Authority (ARCEP). He is an alumnus of the Ecole Normale Supérieure (1997-2000) where he studied law and economics. He holds an agrégation in Economics and Management.
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DOELEMAN, Jaap
Partner, Regulated Markets & Competition
Houthoff Burma N.V.

Jaap Doeleman (born 1952; admitted to the Amsterdam Bar in 1980) heads the Communications Practice of Houthoff Buruma, with 600+ staff the second largest law firm in the Netherlands. His clients are concentrated in the broadcasting and e-communications sectors.Additionally, he represents clients from other industries in competition cases relating in particular to dominance and merger control issues. Since the early 1990s he has specialised in competition law, broadcasting law and e-communications law. Jaap is fascinated by technology andhas developed a practice that focuses on transactions, regulatory issues and litigation in the TMT sectors. He is particularly interested in the competition aspects of network industries. Jaap Doeleman has successfully represented a number of Dutch municipalities in litigation against rate increases by the main cable operators in the Netherlands, UPC and Casema, resulting in 30 - 40% lower rates. In addition to being an expert on the mobile communications sector in which he advises mobile operators and the Dutch DTT-operator Digitenne, he is the legal advisor of the Amsterdam Citynet project, the starting point of a new and open FttH access network covering the Dutch capital. Jaapread history and law at Groningen University. He worked as an assistant at the Groningen Institute of War Studies and was an officerwith the UNIFIL peacekeeping forces in the Lebanon during his military service in 1978/79. At Houthoff Buruma he went on to develop a varied corporate commercial practice. After having been seconded to an affiliated firm in Boston, USA, he was made an equity partner of Houthoff Buruma in 1987. Jaap Doeleman is a member of the Nederlandse Vereniging voor Europees Recht (Netherlands Association for European Law), the Vereniging voor Mededingingsrecht (Competition Law Association), the Vereniging voor Media en Communicatierecht (Communications Law Association) and the International Bar Association. He is the author of severalpublications dealing withvarious aspects of corporate law, the liberalisation of the communications sector and cable-TV issues.
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DOHERTY, John
Commissioner
Commission for Communications Regulation

John joined the Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg) in 2001 as Director of Market Operations, before becoming a Commissioner in 2002 and held the rotating Chairpersonship from 01 December 2003 to 30 November 2004.
ComReg is the statutory body responsible for regulating the Electronic Communications and Postal Sectors in Ireland.
Before joining ComReg, John held a number of senior management positions in the Industrial Development Authority including those of Head of New Business Development focussing on identifying and developing new business opportunities for IDA in areas such as eCommerce, Biotechnology and International Services.
Prior to joining IDA John worked in a number of management positions in the chemical and engineering sectors both in Ireland and Internationally. He is an Economist by background with an MSc in Informatics and a Graduate Diploma in Business Administration
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FORSYTH, Grant
Head of Global Regulatory and Interconnection
BT Global Services
Grant currently works for British Telecom Global Services, as Head of Global Regulatory and Interconnection, based in London. The role includes responsibility for all of BT's global regulatory teams in Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific and Latin America.
Prior to moving to London in 2006, Grant was for seven years Manager of Industry & Regulatory Affairs for TelstraClear in New Zealand and prior to that he held the role of Chief Executive for five years in TUANZ (the Telecommunications Users Association of New Zealand) following a career in telecommunications and IT in New Zealand, United Kingdom and the United States.
Grant holds an MBA from the University of Auckland and MSCE from the University of Washington.
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FRANKL, Michal
Member of the Council
Czech Telecommunications Office

Born 13 December 1963 at Nové Město na Moravě. He graduated from Bank Institute of the Prague University with the degree ofBachelor. From 1971 he lived in Brno where he studied at ahigh school specialising on computer technology. In 1988 he started studying at the Prague School of Economics (management information systems) but interrupted the study to be able to fully focus on his business activities (development of economic software and later also tax advising). He has lived in Prague since 1997. In 1996 he was elected Member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic and was member of the Chamber'sForeign Department. In 1997 he returned his MP mandate because of being appointed Deputy Minister of Finance. He headed the Finance Ministry'sSection of Taxes, Customs and Informatics in 1997-1998. Afterwards he worked as economic and tax adviser in aconsulting company. From 2002 he was Deputy Minister of Informatics and was primarily responsible for the areas of electronic communication and postal services. He is aco-author of the State Information and Communication Policy. He substantially contributed to the development of the Electronic Information Act. From 1 May 2005 he has been member of the CTO Council. His hobbies include culture, tourism and travelling.
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GABLA, Emmanuel
Chef du Service des Technologies et de la société de l'information
Ministère de l'Economie

Born in 1969 in Strasbourg
Education
Graduated from Ecole Polytechnique (promotion 88) and from Ecole nationale supérieure des télécommunications (ENST)
Background
1993-1995: Advisor at the General Directorate for Posts and Telecommunications, Ministry of Industry, Posts, Telecommunications and foreign
1996-1997: Head of European and Multilateral Affairs Department, Ministry of Industry, post and telecom
1998-1999: Assistant-deputy director for International Affairs at the Service for information technologies and Information Society, State Secretary for Industry
1999-2002: As Counsellor for industrial affairs at the Permanent representation of France before the European Union,, Emmanuel Gabla was in charge of telecommunications, posts, and information society (Bruxelles)
July 2002-April 2004: Counsellor for telecommunications, Posts and intellectual property affairs to the Prime Minister, M. Jean-Pierre RAFFARIN.
April 2004-June 2005: Deputy Director of the Cabinet of , M. Patrick DEVEDJIAN, Minister of Industry.
Since August 2005, Director of the Service for Information Technologies and Information Society, General Directorate for Enterprise, Ministry of Economy, Finances and employment.
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GAUTHEY, Gabrielle
Member of the Board
ARCEP

Gabrielle Gauthey is member of the Board of the French Regulatory Authority for Electronic Communications and Posts(ARCEP) since January 2003. Gabrielle Gauthey, is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique and holds a postgraduate degree in economic analysis. She began her career with France Telecom and joined DATAR in 1992 as head of the foreign investment department in France and as General Secretary of the "Invest in France" network. From 1995 to 1997 she worked at the office of the Minister for Posts, Telecommunications and Space Affairs as a technical adviser on telecommunications and information technologies. From 1998 to July 2000 she was Deputy Director-General of Sofirad and Director-General of "Le SAT", the first satellite-based operator of French-language digital TV and radio services in Africa. Till January 2003, she was Director of the Information and Communication Technologies Department at the Caisse des Depots et Consignations, responsible for investment in the "regional digital development" programme by mandate of the state.
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GODLOVITCH, Ilsa
Head of Regulatory Affairs
ECTA

Ilsa is responsible for developing and delivering on the regulatory and policy agenda at ECTA, the trade association representing 150 competitive (non-incumbent) operators across Europe. Prior to joining ECTA in June 2005, she was EU Affairs Director at Cable & Wireless and also represented C&W's international businesses in developing countries outside Europe during a period of widespread liberalisation in the sector. Whilst at Oftel (the UK Telecoms Regulator), Ilsa was responsible for European Affairs and negotiated for the UK Government on the current EU Framework forCommunications. She was previously a technology journalist. She holds an MA in Classics from Oxford University and a Postgraduate Diploma in Economics from London University.
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GUY, Jim
Vice President of Service Development
Arbinet
Jim Guy joined Arbinet in November 2006 and is primarily responsible for the services development and deployment of the Mobile Solutions product suite. With 34 years of experience in global telecommunications ranging from research, strategy, and systems technology, he has worked at leading service providers such asBritish Telecom, Concert Communications, Teleglobe Inc. and Equant (Orange Business Services).
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HENSELER-UNGER, Iris
Vice President
BNetzA

Studied Economics, Ph.D. in Economics
1986 - 1993 and 1999 - 2004 Several positions at the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology; e.g. Principles of Economic Policy; Economic and Structural Policy Research
1993 - 1999 Economic policy, posts and telecommunications expert with the liberal parliamentary group (FDP)
Since March 2004 Vice President of the Regulatory Authority for Telecommunications and Posts (RegTP).
N.B.: In July 2005 Reg TP was renamed in Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA).
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HÜKMARK, Gunnar
Vice Chairman, Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats
European Parliament

Gunnar Hükmark has been a Member of thethe European Parliament since 2004. Heis a deputy member of the Committee of Industry, Research and Energy and, since 2007,Vice President of the EPP-ED group in the Parliament.
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JANSA, Matjaz
Director General
Slovenian Ministry of the Economy - Directorate for Electronic Communications

At the end of the year 2004, after working for 13 years in telecommunication industry in several positions, mr. Matjae Jane¡a, m.sc., was appointed to the position of director general of the Electronic Communications Directorate at the Ministry of Economy. He is responsible for telecommunications, radio-diffusion, e-business and postal services.
He is also member of board of Slovenian standardization institute and member of some expert committees and commissions.
Mr. Matjae Jane¡a, MSc., was born on 10 February 1966 in Kranj, Slovenia, and lives now resident in Ljubljana.
After finishing studies at the Faculty of Electronics and Computer Sciences at the University of Ljubljana, where he graduated as a University Diploma Engineer of Electronics he continued his studies at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Ljubljana and reached the Master degree on management and organisation.
Mr. Matjae Janea was employed in the company Iskratel in Kranj. In the period between 1992 and 2004 he performed different tasks concerning the development of different telecommunication equipment and product management. Within this time he spent a certain period of time working together with the company Siemens in Munich, Germany. Within the framework of his duties he was responsible for product management, project management, was head of the development department and performed the duty of deputy to the head of a profit centre. Since 1998 he is also holding the status of 'researcher'.
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KRÜEGER, Reinald
Deputy Head of Unit - Antitrust Telecoms & Competition Directorate-General
European Commission

Reinald Krüger has worked in the European Commission since 1995. Until November 2000, he worked as Administrator in the Industry Directorate-General on trade and industrial policy related tasks. He then moved to the Competition Directorate-General where he headed from January 2003 the Task Force & Telecom Consultation Mechanism - which was jointly responsible with the respective services of the Information Society Directorate-General for scrutinising draft regulatory measures notified by national regulatory authorities. From November 2004, he is Deputy Head of Unit - Antitrust Telecoms - and Case manager of major antitrust telecoms cases under Art.82 of EC Treaty. Before he joined the Commission, Reinald Krüger was Head of the Research Group "Industrial Economics and Competition Policy" at one of the leading German economics research institutes, the HWWA-Institute for Economic Research in Hamburg. In 1989, he was a Consultant at the US antitrust authority Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and in 1990 a Sideline Competition Expert for the World Bank. After his studies in economics, he was Research and Teaching Assistant for Economic Policy at the University of Hamburg. Reinald Krüger is author of 34 publications in the areas of industrial economics, competition policy and transition economics.
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LAFRANCE, Ann
European Partner
Squire, Sanders & Dempsey

Ann LaFrance is Coordinating Partner for Squire Sanders's communications law team in EMEA and leader of the firm's data protection and privacy practice. Ms. LaFrance has over two decades of experience working on regulatory, policy, competition and commercial matters involving the ICT sector in Europe, the United States and key emerging markets around the globe. She began her career as a lawyer with Squire Sanders in Washington, DC, and from 1996-2004, she served as Chief International Counsel for MCI Communications Corp. (since acquired by Verizon) in Washington, Brussels and London/Reading. Now based in London, Ms. LaFrance's practice covers a wide range of issues involving EU, UK and international law and regulation.
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LANGEHEINE, Bernd
Director B - Electronic Communications Policy
European Commission

Bernd Langeheine took up his present job as Director for Electronic Communications Policy at the European Commission's DG Information Society and Media in July 2002. Before that he headed the General Policy Unit in the European Commission's DG Competition for three years. From January 1996 to June 1999, he was in charge of the Trade Section in the Washington Delegation of the European Commission. From 1990-1996, Mr Langeheine was a Member of the Commission's Legal Service and before that, he spent three years at the European Court of Justice. From 1983 to 1987, he worked in the Trade Policy Division of the Commission's DG for External Relations.
Mr Langeheine spent the academic year 1993/94 as EU Fellow at the Business School of the University of Washington in Seattle, Wash. He studied law and political science at the Universities of Hamburg and Berlin and holds a Ph. D. in law.
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LUITEN, Stephan
Director Public Policy
Liberty Global Europe B.V.

Stephan started his career working with the European Commission in the Directorate General for the Internal Market. Thereafter, he became director of Brussels-based EU public affairs consultancy European Strategy until the end of the nineties. He advised pan-European corporate clients in the telecommunications, advertising & audiovisual media sector on regulatory & political strategies in Europe and implemented lobbying campaigns. In 2000, he joined the Liberty Global group of companies as director regulatory affairs & public policy of Chello Broadband, the first pan-European broadband ISP at that time. Stephan currently holds the position of director public policy in Liberty Global Europe, the largest international cable operator outside the US. He is responsible for designing and implementing public activities to support LGI's corporate business strategy across its European footprint.
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MADERO VILLAREJO, Cecilio
Director of Directorate C - Information, Communication and Media
Commission (DG Comp)

EDUCATION: University and postgraduate education, - Master of law (1976/77 - 1980/81), Faculty of Law, Complutense University, Madrid, -School of Insurance diploma (1983), Directorate-General for Insurance - Ministry for Economic Affairs, Madrid, - Diploma in European Studies (1984), Spanish Diplomatic School, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Madrid. Certificate of European Studies (1985), University of Social Sciences, Grenoble (France)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Before entering the Commission: 1982-1987 Bilbao Bank (currently Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria). Member of central insurance department in this Bank. Work involved advising medium and large companies on legal aspects relating to the coverage of their industrial and financial insurance contracts. 1 May 1987 European Commission: -DG Competition Unit A-5, responsible for public-sector companies and state monopolies. -application of Article 31 (formerly Art. 37) of the EEC Treaty with regard to the adjustment of the Spanish, Portuguese and Greek oil monopolies. -application of Article 86 (formerly Art. 90) of the EEC Treaty in the postal sector. 15.04.1991 - transfer in the interest of the service from Unit A-5 to Unit C-2 (Agreements, abuses of dominant position and other distortions of competition. "Energy, basic chemicals" Unit). - application of Articles 81, 82 and 86 of the EEC Treaty in the field of energy. -preparation of the only draft directives to date under Art. 86 §3 of the Treaty for liberalization of the internal energy market (electricity and natural gas). - follow-up for DG Competition of the file on completion of the Internal energy market (electricity and natural gas) with regard to the negotiations at Council and European Parliament level and relations with other Commission departments concerned with this matter. 16.11.1995 - appointed Head of DG Competition Unit G-5 (currently Unit H-1), within the Directorate responsible for "State Aid", charged with application of Articles 87 and 88 of the Treaty in the field of "textile, papers, chemical, pharmaceutical, electronic industry, mechanical engineering and other manufacturing sectors". 01.09.1999 - appointed Head DG COMP Unit C-3, Directorate C "Information, communication and media", charged with the application of Articles 81, 82 and 86 of the Treaty in the field of "information industries, internet and consumer electronics -. 24.03.2004 - COMP/C3-37792 Microsoft Case. Commission Decision relating to a procedure pursuant to Article 82 of the EEC Treaty. Case manager from the initiation of the formal proceedings in 2000 to their conclusion in a case by now considered a landmark antitrust decision. 30.04.2004 - Appointed Head of an expanded and enlarged Unit C-3 with internet as a new sector under my responsibility on top of information industries and consumers electronics. The Unit is entrusted with some of the most important ongoing antitrust investigations on top of Microsoft. 01.10.2006 - Appointed Director of Directorate D " Services " of DG Competition. 01.08.2007 - Appointed Director of Directorate C " Information, Communication and Media " of DG Competition.
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MORI, Kiyoshi
Vice-Minister for Policy Coordination (International Affairs)
MIC (Japanese Ministry)

Date of Birth: December 25, 1949
Education: Graduated from Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo (1973)
Career and Experience:
July 2007: Vice-Minister for Policy Coordination (International Affairs) (Present)
July 2006: Director-General of the Telecommunications Bureau
August 2005: Director-General of Minister's Secretariat
January 2004: Deputy Director-General of Personnel and Pension Bureau
January 2003: Director-General of the Local Public Service Personnel Department, Local Administration Bureau
August 2002: Director-General of the International Affairs Department, Telecommunications Bureau
November 2001: Director-General of Commission's Secretariat, Telecommunications Business Dispute Settlement Commission (January 6, 2001: Reorganization of ministries and agencies)
1996: Director of the General Planning and Policy Division, Minister's Secretariat
1994: Director of the Telecommunications policy Division, Telecommunications Business Department, Telecommunications Bureau
1990: Director of the Tariff Division, Telecommunications Business Department, Telecommunications Bureau
1973: Entered the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPT), Japan.
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NEWMAN, Matthew
Journalist
Bloomberg

Matthew Newman, 38, became the antitrust and telecommunications reporter for Bloomberg News in June 2006. Prior to that appointment, he was Bloomberg's full-time correspondent in Luxembourg, where he was responsible for covering the EU courts. He wrote articles about merger and cartel appeals, as well as pharmaceutical, trademark and patent cases. He began working for Bloomberg in February 2004. From January 1999 to the end of 2003, he worked for Dow Jones Newswires in Brussels. He covered telecommunications, trade and other regulatory stories. He worked at Dow Jones Newswires' New York office between 1995 and 1999 and wrote about personal finance issues. Prior to Dow Jones, he worked as a reporter at the City News Bureau of Chicago between 1993 and 1995, covering police, fire and city hall matters. He began his career at the Swampscott Reporter, where he wrote about politics in a small town north of Boston, Massachusetts. Mr. Newman is a graduate of Boston University, where he obtained two degrees: Bachelor of Arts in history and Bachelor of Science in communication. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and moved to Evanston, Illinois (a suburb north of Chicago) in 1979. He is married and has two children, aged 5 and 8.
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NIEPOLD, Ruprecht
Head of Unit "Radio Spectrum Policy"
European Commission

Ruprecht Niepold is affiliated with the European Commission where he holds the position of Head of the Unit  "Radio Spectrum Policy" in Directorate General for Information Society and Media. Mr.Niepold holds a Degree of Electrical Engineering of the Technical University of Karlsruhe and a PhD of the University of Stuttgart. He has worked at the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft in applied research for industry in the field of industrial automation before joining the European Commission in 1989 where he became responsible for relations with Japan and South East Asia in the field of telecommunications policy. As of 1997 he led the unit dealing mobile and satellite communications regulatory aspects. Since 2003 he heads the unit in charge of developing radio spectrum policy from a Community perspective.
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PAPADIAS, Lambros
Case Handler
European Commission
Lambros Papadias is a qualified lawyer specialised in European law (LLM - College of Europe, Bruges). He started his career with Freshfields (Brussels) and then served as a "Référendaire' at the Court of First Instance of the EC, Luxembourg where he clerked for Judge A. Kalogeropoulos (1994-1998) and later on, Judge M. Vilaras (1998-2000). Since April 2000, he is an Official with DG Competition. He has been involved in legislative and policy-related issues in the telecoms sector including the "Commission Guidelines on market definition and SMP", the Commission Telecoms "Liberalisation Directive", and the Commission Recommendation on "Article 7 Notifications". He has also been involved in a number of telecoms antitrust cases including the "UK roaming investigation", and was also a Case Manager for the Commission's "Article 7 Task Force". Currently, he is dealing with state aid cases in the telecoms and media sector. He has published and spoken regularly on EU antitrust law issues.
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PARISI, Stefano
CEO
Fastweb

Born in: 1956
Business experience: Effective October 2004, Stefano Parisi is the CEO of FASTWEB. Stefano Parisi, born in Rome in 1956, graduated in Business and Economics from the University La Sapienza of Rome. From 1992-1997 he was Head of the Department of Economic Affairs for Italy's Prime Minister. In 1994 he was Secretary General of the newly created Ministry for Telecommunications during the period of significant rationalisation of the incumbent operator and the opening of mobile telephony to competition. In 1996 he was Head of the Department for Information and Press of the Prime Minister's cabinet and member of the Board of Auditors of RAI (1994-1997).
From 1997 to 2000 Stefano Parisi was City Manager of Milan and from 2000 until July 2004 he had the role of Director General of Confindustria (the confederation of Italian industrial companies).
Stefano Parisi also shows merit in academics. From 1996 to 2001 he was acting Professor in the faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Milan; from 2001 he sits on the Board of Guarantors of the Italian Academy of Columbia University of New York.
Board Committees: Chairman of the Management Committee.
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PATTERSON, Dr. Ross
New Zealand Telecommunications Commissioner
New Zealand Commerce Commission

Dr. Ross Patterson was appointed to the position of New ZealandTelecommunications Commissioner in July 2007. Prior to this appointmenthe beena partner at Minter Ellison Lawyers in Sydney for ten years, where he headed the competition and regulatory practice.Before this hewas a partner in the Minter Ellison Auckland office. His principal areas of expertise include all aspects of competition law, telecommunications law, payment systems regulation, and competition policy initiatives. He has a PhD in commercial law, and has regularly provided commentary and articles for publication and journals in Australia, New Zealand and overseas.
Other positions previouslyheld by Dr Patterson includePresident of the Australia New Zealand Business Council, a member of the Australian New Zealand Leadership Forum combined working group on competition law and consumer protection, the Competition Law and Policy Institute of New Zealand and theTradePractices Committee of the Law Council of Australia.
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PEPPER, Dr. Robert
Senior MD, Global Advanced Technology Policy
Cisco

Robert Pepper leads a team driving Cisco's global agenda for advanced technology policy in areas such as broadband, IP enabled services, wireless, security and privacy. He joined Cisco in July 2005 from the FCC where he served as Chief of the Office of Plans and Policy and Chief of Policy Development beginning in 1989 where he focused on issues cutting across traditional industry and institutional boundaries as a result of new technologies and convergence and led teams implementing telecommunications legislation, planning for the transition to digital television, designing and implementing the first U.S. spectrum auctions, and developing policies promoting the development of the Internet. Before joining the FCC, he was Director of the Annenberg Washington Program in Communications Policy. His government service also included Acting Associate Administrator at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and initiating a program on Computers, Communications and Information Policy at the National Science Foundation. His academic appointments included faculty positions at the Universities of Iowa, Indiana, and Pennsylvania, and as a research affiliate at Harvard University. He serves on the board of directors of the U.S. Telecommunications Training Institute (USTTI) and the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), advisory boards for Columbia University and Michigan State University, and is a Communications Program Fellow at the Aspen Institute. He is a member of the U.S. Department of Commerce's Spectrum Management Advisory Committee and the UK's Ofcom Spectrum Advisory Board. Pepper received his BA. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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POWELL, Mark
Partner
White & Case

Mark Powell advises on all aspects of EC competition law. His practice focuses particularly on the interface between competition law and sector-specific regulatory requirements in areas such as energy, telecommunications, transport, pharmaceuticals and the media. Mr. Powell also handles the regulatory clearance of complex mergers and acquisitions with a European dimension. He has advised a number of clients involved in cartel investigations. His State aid practice focuses on advice to clients in new and candidate EU Member States. Recent matters in which Mr. Powell has been involved include: Numerous mergers in the telecoms sector including Telia/Sonera; Deutsche Telekom/one-2-one and Weather/Tim Hellas; Liberty Global's acquisition of Noos and legal action by Liberty Global against the Commission's approval of State aid for broadband development; The intellectual property aspects of Microsoft's defense against Commission accusations of abuse of dominance; The first two cases establishing the legitimacy of compulsory licensing of IP rights, Magill and IMS; Regular advice to innovative pharmaceutical and other companies on the competition law aspects of co-promotion, co-marketing and other types of licensing and distribution agreements. Investigation by the UK's Competition Commission into the rolling stock market; Assisting energy companies in new Member States regarding European Commission investigations into long-term power purchase agreements; Lyondell's acquisition of Millennium Chemicals and its disposal to Basell; Obtaining clearance for State aid granted to a leading Czech bank during privatization of the banking sector; Representing clients involved in cartel investigations in the district heating pipe, nucleotides and petrochemical sectors.
Clients described Mr. Powell to Chambers as "practical and savvy", an "enjoyable, hard-working and client-friendly" competition specialist who "takes a case and makes it his own. He doesn't just do the basic plumbing work but the complicated, architectural design too." His abilities were singled out for recognition in the first edition of Euromoney's "Expert Guide to the World's Leading Competition and Antitrust Lawyers". He is frequently asked to speak at conferences on matters relating to his practice areas.
Mr. Powell was a partner in Forrester Norall & Sutton, a Brussels firm specializing in EU and international law, until its merger with White & Case in 1998.
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REDING, Viviane
Commissioner Infosoc
EU Commission

Nationality Luxembourger
Personal details Born on 27 April 1951 in Esch-sur-Alzette, LuxembourgMarried, three children
Education Doctor of human sciences, Sorbonne, Paris
Professional career
1978-1999 Journalist, Luxemburger Wort
1986-1998 President, Luxembourg Union of Journalists
Political career
1979-1989 Member of Luxembourg Parliament - President of social committee - Member of the Office of the Chamber of Deputies - Member of Benelux Parliament - Member of the North Atlantic Assembly (leader of Christian Democrat/Conservative group)
1981-1999 Communal councillor, city of Esch & President of Cultural Affairs Committee 1992-1999
1988-1993 National president of Christian-Social Women
1995-1999 Vice-president, PCS (Parti Chrétien-Social)
1989-1999 Member of the European Parliament - President of the Petitions Committee
1989-1992 Vice-president of Social Committee
1992-1994 Vice-president of Civil Liberties and Internal Affairs Committee
1997-1999 Head of Luxembourg delegation to EPP & Member of EPP group office
1999-2004 Member of the European Commission(Education, Culture, Youth, Media, Sport)
2004- Member of the European Commission(Information Society and Media)
Prizes and distinctions
1992 St George's Cross from the Generalitat of Catalunya
2001 Gold Medal of European Merit
2004 Doctorate Honoris Causa from the Hu Chen University of Taiwan
2004 Doctorate Honoris Causa from the University of Genoa
2004 Robert Schuman Medal
2004 Doctorate Honoris Causa from the University of Torino
2004 Prince of Asturias International Cooperation Prize
2005 Officer of the French Legion of Honour
2005 "Gloria Artis" Medal of Honor from Poland.
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SCOTT, Peter
Head of Unit - Directorate B Unit 1 - Policy Development, DG Infso
European Commission

Peter Scott is Head of the Unit within the European Commission's Directorate General for the Information Society & Media that is responsible for development of the EU regulatory framework for electronic communications. He has been with the European Commission in Brussels since 1990, prior to which he spent 18 years in the telecommunications and information technology sectors in the UK. He is an engineer, with a BSc and PhD in electronics.
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STUMPF, Ulrich
Director
WIK Consulting

Ulrich Stumpf is Director at WIK Wissenschaftliches Institut für Infrastruktur und Kommunikationsdienste, where he leads the telecoms regulation and competition department.
Before joining WIK, he was a Senior Economist at the Monopolkommission, an advisory body for competition policy to the German Ministry of Economics (1983-89) and Assistant Professor at the Technical University of Berlin (1978 - 83).
He has more than 20 years of experience in advising on regulatory and competition issues throughout Europe, in particular, in the telecoms sector. More recently, he has been extensively involved in consulting National Regulatory Authorities and telecoms operators on market analysis & remedies selection under the new EU regulatory framework as well as reforming spectrum policy. In 2006 he was one of the three Economic Experts who advised the European Commission on the revision of the Recommendation on relevant markets susceptible to ex ante regulation.
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TAYLOR, Michael
General Council
Vonage

Michael Taylor is General Counsel for Vonage Ltd. He has responsibility for the company's legal and regulatory affairs. At Vonage, Michael actively participates on the Ofcom New Voice Services Consumer Information Working Group and the NICC Task Group convened to at look at VoIP emergency services and location information. His role involves coordinating and helping execute Vonage's UK and European VoIP regulatory strategy. Michael is a director of the Onslow Group, which offers legal and regulatory services to clients in the telecoms, media and technology sectors.
Previous roles: From 1999 to 2001, Michael served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel to FirstMark Communications Europe, a pan European operator providing broadband wireless services and backbone fibre connectivity. Prior to that he served as Deputy General Counsel to the global mobile satellite operator, ICO Global Communications where he provided legal and regulatory support to their global operations. While at ICO, he chaired the interconnect working group of the European Telecommunications Platform in Brussels with the remit of producing a pan European framework interconnect agreement which was eventually accepted by the Commission. Before his time at ICO, Michael was Director of Legal and Regulatory Affairs at the US headquartered company ACC Long Distance, the first operator to be granted an International Simple Resale License in the UK ("the post duopoly era"). He also held a number of high level positions at Mercury Communications, the UK's first licensed operator authorised to provide public telecommunications services in competition with BT. During his time at Mercury and ACC, Michael was involved in regulatory issues very similar to the issues (e.g. regulatory, consumer and industry) facing the VoIP industry today. He was directly involved in numerous Oftel working groups, very similar in constitution to the New Voice Services Working Group gatherings of today. Michael was called to the English Bar in 1986.
Areas of expertise: Having spent his entire career in the telecoms industry, Michael is extremely well versed in telecoms regulatory affairs with specific expertise in legal issues surrounding the development and roll out of VoIP technology.
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TALEVI, Tiziana
Regulatory Affairs Director
Fastweb

Born in Rome with a degree in Economics & Business Administration at LUISS University in Rome, she has always worked in the telecommunications industry with experiences in Telecom Italia (initially as an analyst in the Strategic Planning Dept and later as a researcher on economic and regulatory affairs at the San Salvador Study Center in Venice). In 1997 she worked in the regulatory affairs dept. of Infostrada, the first alternative fixed line operator in Italy in the initial phases of liberalization and therefore followed all aspects related to the liberalization process in Italy and in Europe. She then worked at the Italian NRA for four years as an assistant to one of the commissioners and has contributed to the definition of the main regulatory proceedings regarding the liberalization process in Italy with particular emphasis on Unbundling, bitstream and interconnection. From 2002 to mid 2007 she had an international experience with Telecom Italia Sparkle, the international wholesale voice and data division of Telecom Italia in the New York Office, dealing with marketing and regulatory aspects of international voice and data services. From April 2007, she is director of Regulatory Affairs of Fastweb, the main alternative broadband and IPTV provider in Italy.
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TRICAUD, Emmanuel
Director Regulatory Affairs
COLT

Emmanuel Tricaud has been in charge of regulatory affairs with COLT Telecom in France since 1997. From 1990 to 1997 he ran Doxa, a consulting firm in distributed systems and networks. From 1980 to 1980 he held various sales and mangement positions with systems integrators Syseca (now Thal's Information Systems) & Steria. He graduated from HEC (Hautes Etudes Commerciales) in Paris in 1978.
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THOMAS, David
Head of Strategy for Regulated Industries
KPMG in the UK

Qualifications:
MA (Economics) Cambridge
Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
Experience:
David leads KPMG's regulatory practice in the UK and chairs its global communications regulatory panel. He joined KPMG from Ofcom in 2006. He advises operators and regulators around the world on regulatory strategy focusing recently on pricing and separation issues. At Ofcom David was its first Director of Regulatory and Competition Finance, with overall responsibility for the quality and delivery of the financial analysis supporting Ofcom's strategic, policy and compliance work. He led the projects that set BT's current access and interconnect prices and was a member of the steering committee for Ofcom's Strategic Review of Telecommunications Prior to Ofcom David had 20 years' experience working with PwC and focused exclusively in the telecoms sector for the last 12 of those years. In addition to his regulatory experience David has directed projects on due diligence, asset valuation, benchmarking, organisational structures and audit for fixed and mobile operators across Europe, Middle and Far East and Africa. In total David has worked with over 80 operators in some 30 countries across the globe.
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VAN DEN BEUKEL, Jilles
Regulatory Officer
KPN

1987 Graduated in law, University of Utrecht
1995 Dissertation on Access to the television market in the light of EC law
1995 Secretary Broadcasting for the national Media Council
1996 Manager Regulatory affairs VECAI (association of cable operators)
2000 Senior Advisor regulatory affairs KPN Mobile The Netherlands
2004 Regulatory Officer KPN
Member of editorial board of Mediaforum (a magazine on communications law).
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VAN GAEVER, Alian
Policy Officer, Policy Development, Directorate B Unit 1
European Commission

Alain Van Gaever works in the Policy Development & Regulatory Framework unit of DG Information Society, where he is responsible for Next Generation Networks (NGN), Voice over IP (VoIP), Interconnection in IP-enabled networks, Access to Emergency Services (forward-looking aspects), Standardization and Power Line Communications (PLC). He has 14 years of experience in the Telecoms Sector. Before joining the European Commission, he worked as a Signal Troops officer in the Armed Forces in Belgium and as a Voice over IP consultant in Cisco Systems. Alain has a Master degree in Engineering from the polytechnic division of the Royal Military Academy, a master degree in Telematics and an MBA from the University of Brussels.
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VIOLA, Roberto
General Secretary
AGCOM
Chairman elect ERG 2007
Roberto Viola holds a doctor degree in electronic engineering (Dr. Ing.) and a master in business administration (MBA). He is currently in charge of managing the overall AGCOM organisation as Secretary-General. He is chairman-elect for the 2007 of the European Regulatory Group (ERG). He served in AGCOM (1999-2004), as director of regulation department and technical director being in charge of , inter alia, regulation in terrestrial, cable and satellite television, frequency planning, access and interconnection of communication services, cost accounting and tariff in telecommunication and broadcasting services. From 1985-1999 he served in various position as a staff member of the European Space Agency (ESA) in particular, he has been head of telecommunication and broadcasting satellite services. He pionered novel communication systems (UMTS, satellite radio, digital broadcasting) publishing more than 100 scientific papers and holding key patents in the sector.
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VONK, Ed
CEO
EVUA

Born : 16 March 1948
Status : Married, two sons, one granddaughter.
Position : CEO-EVUA
Organisation : EVUA (the Enterprise Virtual Network User Association)
Ed graduated from the The Hague University with a bachelor degree in Radio Communications, The Haarlem University with a bachelor degree in Computer Engineering and from the Amsterdam University with a bachelor degree in Business Management. He joints the Dutch Civil Aviation Authorities in 1970 where he was made responsible for Instrument Landing systems and navigation aids flight-testing. He left this service in 1980 for a carrier with the former Dutch public carrier, now KPN. After 5 years working he left for a more exiting job as telecommunications advisor/project leader for the Royal Dutch Shell group. Although stationed at The Hague he worked on various projects amongst others in Libya, Morocco, Egypt, Gabon, Bangladesh, Nepal, Syria, Columbia and Norway. He retired from Shell after 20 years of service in April 2004.
Ed was involved with telecommunications throughout his whole active carrier. His work brought him into contact with the European ISDN user forum and he has been chairman of one of the working groups. He remains active for almost two years pursuing harmonisation of ISDN services within Europe.
Ed was also a member of the Telecommunications Foundation of Africa (TFA) a non-profit industry forum to promote telecommunications development. His activities for Africa results from his experience with telecommunication projects in this continent and his appreciation for the African people.
Ed is now 12 years active within the European Virtual Network User Association (EVUA). He was former board member and chairman. After retirement from Shell he was asked to lead the organisation and to become their CEO. His main activities are focusing on commercial aspect, development of Enterprise Network Services and relation with suppliers and other user groups.
Ed interest in the telecommunications market ranges from better service definitions for nuts and bolt services toward complete outsourcing of Enterprise Infrastructure Services. Although critical towards what the market can deliver on a global scale, Ed's vision remains that outsourcing holds the future and that multinationals will look towards service providers that can deliver enterprise infrastructure services in a competitive and open market.
Ed is living in the old town of Delft. When not travelling he takes his push bike or does fitness training.
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WELLER, Dennis
Chief Economist
Verizon

Dennis Weller is Chief Economist of Verizon. Mr. Weller did his graduate study in economics at Stanford University, and performed economic research at the Hoover Institution under grants from the U.S. Department of Justice. Mr. Weller began his career in telecommunications at AT&T, where he developed the pricing strategy and new service offers with which AT&T responded to competition in long distance. As Chief Economist of GTE, Mr. Weller proposed new approaches to universal service, and negotiated an industry agreement which cut access charges in the United States in half. At Verizon, Mr. Weller is now focused on policies for next generation networks.
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WHITE, Nick
Vice Chairman
INTUG

Nick has spent nearly forty years in IT, in a variety of roles, principally in telecommunications. Most recently, during his fifteen years at Unilever, starting as head of Worldwide Telecommunications, he also managed IT Strategy, Ecommerce, and Information Management. At HSBC, starting as group Telecommunications Manager, he went on to manage all Midland Bank's computer centres and networks as Group IT Operations Director and to chair a technology subsidiary, Midland Network Services. In 10 years at Reuters, finishing as Deputy Technical Controller, he managed software and engineering development and production for global telecommunications and information systems.
Nick has been a Vice Chairman of INTUG since 1994, and was Chairman of CMA from 1990-1993.
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WITTIG, Hannes
Telecoms Analyst
JP Morgan Chase

Born 1965 in Karlsruhe, Germany
Degrees in Economics (Hagen, Northwestern) and Politics/Philosophy (Munich, Oxford)
Graduate of the German School of Journalism (Munich)
Consultant at McKinsey&Co. 1992-1999
European telecoms research analyst at Dresdner Kleinwort 2000-2006
European telecoms research analyst at JPMorgan from 2006
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