ITU Workshop on Apportionment of Revenues and
International Internet Connectivity

Kishik Park (ETRI, Korea)
Chairman Study Group 3

Dr. Kishik Park is the chairman of ITU-T Study Group3, which deals with “tariff and accounting principles”. As an experienced standards professional, Dr. Park took the role of secretary general of the Asia-Pacific IT Ministers’ Conference 2002, and was the chairman of the 9th Global Standards Collaboration (GSC) 2004. In addition, he has been an advisory board member of ASTAP (1998-present) as well as the vice chairman of TSAG (1997-2004).

Since 1984, Dr. Park has been working for the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Rep. of Korea (ETRI). Among other roles, he has held such important leadership positions as Vice President of the Info-Communications Technology Division, Vice President of the IT Strategy Research Division, and Director of the Protocol Engineering Center.
He was educated at Seoul National University where he obtained his B.A. (first class honors) and M.A., in 1982 and 1984, respectively. He received a Ph.D. in the field of Telecommunications Policy in 1995. In 2004, he also earned a Ph.D. in Internet QoS, Computer Science at Paichai University. Regarding his research and academic achievements, he has written and edited many books, and has published more than 150 papers, including 16 SCI/SSCIs.

Abossé Akue-Kpakpo
Commission de l'UEMOA

ICT Expert with UEMOA (West Africa Economic and Monetary Union) Commission since 2009. Currently President of
the Study Group 3 Regional Group for Africa (SG3RG-AFR) at the ITU-T.  

I held the Marketing Department and served at the Department of Strategy and Development as Expert in Service Product Billing from 1994 to 2009.

Consultant with ITU, CMTL (Centre de Maintenance des Télécommunications de Lomé) and ESMT (Ecole Supérieure multinationale des télécommunications) at Dakar on various subjects: Universal Access /Service- Network Interconnection-Telecom-Service billing–Telecom Marketing. 

Accredited close the tribunal and courts of Togo. 

Master of Telecommunication Management in 1994 at Institut National des télécommunications (Evry-France).

Pauline Tsafak
Ministère des Postes et Télécommunications, Cameroon

Pauline Tsafak Djoumessi est la vice présidente du groupe régional pour l’Afrique de la Commission d’études 3 du secteur de la normalisation des télécommunications de l’UIT. Ce groupe travaille notamment sur les questions économiques de télécommunications. Elle travaille depuis 1999 au Ministère des Postes et télécommunications du Cameroun à Yaoundé, où elle est responsable depuis 2005 du service en charge de l’observatoire des marchés de télécommunications.

Roque Galiano
CISCO

Roque Gagliano has been working with IP networks for more than 12 years.

He is a Consulting Engineer at Cisco Systems, where his responsibilities include advising senior management in technology forecasting. Previously, he was a Senior Project Engineer and Policy Officer at LACNIC, the Internet registry for Latin America and the Caribbean. His responsibilities included coordinating technical projects and overseeing the policy development process for Internet resource allocation in the LACNIC region. While in LACNIC, he lead the Resource Public Key Infrastructure project and provided staff support for the IXP community in the LATAM region (NAPLA). He also held engineering positions at ANTEL, Uruguay and Sprint Nextel Corp. in the United States.

He chaired the e-LAC 2007 process working group on Infrastructure and was a member of the same working group for the e-LAC 2010 process. He has participate a numerous panels and workshops during IGF and CITEL meetings. Finally, he is also active within the IETF, particularly in Inter-domain Routing, IPv6 and traffic exchange related groups, where he has wrote a number of standardization documents.

Oscar Messano

Regional Latin American ISP representative

Institutional area: President of eCom-Lac - American Federation and the Caribbean for Internet and Electronic Commerce International based in Uruguay; Founder and current Vice President of CABASE - Cámara Argentina de Internet.

President of LACNIC - Internet Address Registry for Latin America and the Caribbean. Uruguay-based International; Director ISOC-AR - Argentina Chapter - Internet Society;  Rapporteur of the Internet Matters CCPI CITEL/OAS.

Academic area: President of CCAT - Center for Advanced Technology Training.

Private area: Tecnomedia CEO - Digital Media - Radio and Internet TV;  Radionexo media director and Nexotv (Radio and Television on the Internet).

Michael Kende

Analysys

Michael Kende is a partner and the co-head of the Regulatory Sector at Analysys Mason. Michael spent three years at the FCC, where one focus was on IP interconnection as part of merger reviews such as MCI WorldCom, and he wrote an FCC working paper on the topic entitled “The Digital Handshake; connecting Internet backbones”. At Analysys, Michael has worked with operators and regulators in six continents, providing advice on a variety of Internet issues. He has worked on projects relating to Internet backbone interconnection, including merger reviews and assisting a backbone in assessing its peering policy. His clients have included the World Bank, the IDA in Singapore, OSIPTEL in Peru, AT&T, and the European Union. He recently led a team advising IDA on the development of the SGIX Internet Exchange, and is currently doing the same for a regulator in the Middle East.

Edwin Fernando Rojas Mejia
CEPAL

Fernando Rojas has been working in the telecommunications sector for the past 12 years, specifically focusing on regulation analysis and public policies. He is currently in charge of the Technical Secretariat for the Regional Dialogue on Broadband and the Broadband Information Center for Latin America at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).

Antonio Fernández
Senior Manager Regulation, Telefónica Latin America
 

Antonio Fernández is Telecommunications Engineer and Executive-MBA from Instituto de Empresa. Antonio joined Telefonica group in 1990. He started his carrier in Spain at network planning department conducting technical and economic studies about new network solutions to be applied in the local loop based on xDSL technologies, Wireless Local Loop and Fiber Optic. From 1999 to 2006 Antonio Fernández worked in merger & acquisitions analyzing new business opportunities. He participated actively in the expansion of Telefonica footprint around the world. From 2006 until now Antonio is Senior Manager of Regulatory Issues for Latin-American region. He is involved in the elaboration of regulatory benchmarks, positioning papers and in the spreading of best practices in regulatory issues along the Telefonica operations.

Salerme Inacio Oliveria Junior

Operational Meneger, ANATEL
Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações - ANATEL

Salerme Oliveira is Economist and specialist in telecommunications regulations, and works in ANATEL since 2005. Salerme works with competition and ant trust analyses. He also follows the mergers, acquisitions and corporate restructurings of telecommunications operators in Brazil. Salerme is also responsible to follow the discussion of international economics issues, as Internet International Connectivity, International Roaming, ITRs, among other issues.

Pedro Oliva Brunet

Ministerio de la Informática y las Comunicaciones, Cuba
 

Pedro Oliva es Graduado en la Universidad de la Habana como Ingeniero en Telecomunicaciones desde 1970, ha pasado cursos internacionales de especialización en temas de telecomunicaciones organizados por la UIT y otros impartidos por las Administraciones de Francia y Japón, tiene más de 50 años de experiencia en la operación y desarrollo de las telecomunicaciones de Cuba, en actividades relacionadas con la operación, el desarrollo y la regulación de redes y servicios. En la Asamblea Mundial de Normalización del 2008 fue ratificado como Vicepresidente del Grupo de Estudios de la Comisión de Estudio 3 para América Latina y el Caribe, y ha representado a su Administración como delegado, Jefe de Delegación, o Conferencista en múltiples reuniones de Comisiones de Estudio, Talleres, y Asambleas, Fórums y Simposios Mundiales organizados por la UIT.

Gunawan Hutagalung
Directorate of Telecom of Indonesia

Gunawan Hutagalung has been working with DG Postel MIC of Indonesia on policy and regulation development especially interconnection and retail tariffs regulation for 12 years and is currently involved in the development of policy on technology implementation for convergence services.

Michuki Mwangi
The Internet Society

Michuki Mwangi is ISOC Regional Development Manager for Africa an Internet Technologist specializing in IXPs, DNS and Policy development.

Mr. Mwangi previously served as the Administrative Manager at the .KE registry (KENIC) and the President of the African Top Level Domain (AfTLD) Association. He continues to serve as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the Kenya Internet Exchange Point (KIXP) in a volunteer capacity.

Aminata Drame
SONATEL, Senegal

Aminata DRAME occupe actuellement le poste de Wholesale Marketing Manager à la société nationale des télécommunications du Sénégal (SONATEL/Groupe France télécom).

Elle a pour mission principale, le pilotage des tarifs, le développement du trafic international, du hubbing, du roaming opérateurs et de la connectivité internationale et d’assurer l’adaptation des activités de SONATEL à la réglementation internationale et nationale en vigueur.

Mathématicienne de formation, Aminata DRAME exerce depuis plus de douze ans dans le domaine des études statistiques et plus particulièrement dans le monde des télécommunications.

Elle a rejoint le groupe SONATEL/France télécom en 2003 au Mali d’abord comme responsable qualité de service ensuite comme chef de la division études, marketing stratégique et veille technologique et concurrentielle.

En 2010, elle rejoint la Sonatel au Sénégal où, après un an en tant wholesale finance controller, elle est en charge depuis Mars 2011, du marketing wholesale à la direction des opérateurs et des relations internationales.

Mme Drame a une bonne connaissance de l’environnement règlementaire en Afrique. Elle est membre du groupe des experts en tarification de la conférence des télécommunications ouest africaines(CTOA) et participe activement aux travaux du SGR3-AFR depuis 2010.

Raynold C. Mfungahema
Communications Regulatory Authority, Tanzania

Raynold Crispin Mfungahema actively participates in the activities of International Telecommunications Union especially in the (ITU) – T Study Group 3: Tariff and accounting principles including related telecommunication economic and policy issues since year 2000. He has previously chaired ITU-T SG3-WP3 and ITRs group of experts meetings.

He is currently serving as the Director, Consumer and Industry Affairs with the Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA); which is responsible for regulation of the electronic communications (telecommunications and broadcasting) and postal sectors in Tanzania. He is responsible for market monitoring, analysis, Competition, interconnection and access, consumer protection issues, industry analysis and tariff regulation.

He has served in various capacities before, as an Economist with the Ministry of Finance and Economic affairs in Tanzania, a Chief Economic and Financial Analyst and as a Director of Economic Regulation with the defunct Tanzania Communications Commission (TCC).

Dr. Mfungahema holds Ph.D. and Msc in Regional Planning Science degrees from Kyoto University- Japan and B.A (Hons.)  Economics degree from University of Dar Es Salaam – Tanzania. He is a Certified Regulation Specialist and Public – Private Partnership specialist.

Josephine Adou
Agence des Télécommunications de Côte d'Ivoire (ATCI)

William Godfrey
Principal Economist, OFCOM

William Godfrey joined Ofcom in 2005. He is a Principal Economist specializing in the economics of fixed and mobile network regulation. He has provided economic analysis for the resolution of a number of interconnection disputes and also advised on the economics of radio spectrum management. Prior to that he worked as an economist in competition policy and regulation at the former telecoms regulator (Oftel), the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) and the Office of Fair Trading (OFT). He received his first degree in economics with French from the University of Durham and his post-graduate degree in economics (MPhil) from the University of Cambridge.