FORUM PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

• The Honorable D.N. MAGANG, Minister of Works, Transport and Communications, Member of Parliament, Former Minister, Botswana
  

Honorary Members

• Mr Goundé Désiré ADADJA, Director General, RASCOM, Côte d'Ivoire
  
• Mr K.Y. AMOAKO, Executive Secretary, UN Economic Commission for Africa, ECA
  
• Mr. Jean DELLO, Ministre, Ministère des Postes et Télécommunications République du Congo
  
• Mr Georges DUPONT-HENIUS, Senior Programme Manager, Head of Section, Senior Liaison Officer to ITU, UNESCO (TDS Committee)
  
• The Hon. Deelchand JEEHA, Minister of Information Technology & Telecommunications, Mauritius
  
• H. E. Mr Douayoua LIA BI, Ministre de la Communication et des Nouvelles Technologies, Côte d'Ivoire
  
• Mr Jan Kipleting MUTAI, Secretary-General, African Telecommunications Union (ATU)
  
• The Honourable John NASASIRA, Minister of Work, Housing & Communications, Uganda (Republic of)
  
• Mr Cheikh Tidiane NDIONGUE, Directeur, Ministère de la Communication, Senegal
  
• Mr Sizwe NXASANA, Chief Executive Officer, Telkom SA, Republic of South Africa
  
• Mr Philip O. OKUNDI, Managing Director, Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS), Kenya (Republic of)
  
• Mr Geoffrey ONYEAMA, Director, Cooperation for Development Bureau for Africa, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
  
• H. E. Mr F.K. OWUSU-ADJAPONG, Minister of Communications, Ghana
  
• Dr Sam G. PITRODA, Chairman, WORLDTEL
  
• H.E. Mr. Tomás Augusto SALOMÃO, Minister of Transport and Communications, Mozambique
  
• Mr Noah A. SAMARA, Chairman & CEO, WORLDSPACE Corp.
  
• Dr Milenko STOJKOVIC, Director, INTELSAT 
  
• Mr Mervat TALLAWY, Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, ESCWA

Chairman

• Mrs Walda ROSEMAN, President & CEO, CompassRose International, Inc., United States
  

• Dr Norman LEWIS, Director of Technology Research, Freeserve.com plc, United Kingdom
  

• Dr Marko JAGODIC, Adviser to the Director-General, Iskratel, Slovenia
  

• Mr Clovis José BAPTISTA NETO, Executive Secretary, Inter-American Telecommunication Commission, CITEL
  
• M. Abdoulaye CISSÉ, Inspecteur technique, Ministère de la Culture et des Communications, Senegal
  
• Prof. Géza GORDOS, Professor, Budapest University of Technology & Economics, Hungary
  
• Dr Yuri GRIN, Director-General, Ministry for Communications and Informatization of The Russian Federation, Russia
  
• Dr Reza JAFARI, President, Global Communications, Entertainment & Media Industry Group, EDS, United States
  
• Mr Dan KIERNAN, Directeur, Alcatel, France
  
• Mr Andile NGCABA, Director-General, Department of Communications, South Africa
  
• Dr Nii QUAYNOR, Executive Chairman, Network Computer Systems, Ghana
  
• Prof. Ahmad R. SHARAFAT, Chairman, Department of Electrical Engineering, Tarbiat-Modarres University, Iran (Islamic Rep. of)
  
• Dr Stuart SHARROCK, Editorial Consultant - Telecommunications, Telemates Ltd., United Kingdom
  
• Ms Lyndall SHOPE-MAFOLE, Minister Plenipotentiary: Communications, Embassy of South Africa  (France) 
  
• Mr Nobuyoshi SONE, Chief Engineer, NEC Corporation, Japan
  
• Mr Peter André STERN, Special Advisor, Regulatory Policy, Telesystem International Wireless Inc., Canada
  
• Mr Johan VAN EGMOND, Telecom Regulatory Affairs and Related Trade and Standardization Policies, Philips Consumer Electronics, Netherlands
  
• Mr Stewart Dale WHITE, Group Public Policy Director, Vodafone Group, United Kingdom

• Mr Devan NAIDOO, General Manager, Ministry of Communications, South Africa
  

ITU Management

• Mr Yoshio UTSUMI, Secretary-General
  
• Mr Roberto BLOIS, Deputy Secretary-General
  
• Mr Robert W. JONES, Director, Radiocommunication Bureau (BR)
  
• Mr Hamadoun I. TOURÉ, Director, Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT)
  
• Mr Houlin ZHAO, Director, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB)
  
• Mr Fabio BIGI, Deputy to the Director of TSB & Head of Studies, Strategy and Cooperation Dpt (SSCD)
  
• Mr Michel GIROUX, Deputy to the Director of BR, and Head Radiocommunication Information Systems Department, BR
  
• Mr Pierre GAGNÉ, Chief, Policy, Strategy & Financing (BDT-PSF)
  
• Mr Yapi BANCOULI, ITU Area Representative for West Africa ( ITU/BDT), Senegal
  
• Mr Brahima SANOU, Head of ITU Regional Office for Africa (ITU/BDT), Ethiopia
  

• Mr Hans PIETERSE, Executive Manager
  
• Mr Tom DAHL-HANSEN, Deputy Executive Manager & Head, Exhibition Division
  

• Ms Elizabeth LAKE, Forum Manager
  
• Ms Sunny BEKELE, Forum Officer
  
• Ms Marianne DIMIER, Forum Manager

Multimedia Moderators

• Ms Caroline MACKENZIE, Context, France
• Dr Paula UIMONEN, University of Stockholm, Sweden