Biographies

Isaac Boateng is currently the Head of Standardization at the African Telecommunications Union (ATU), Nairobi, Kenya with his professional working experience spanning over 22 years in the telecommunications, broadcasting and ICTs sector.  At the ATU Secretariat, Mr. Boateng is responsible for coordinating and spearheading the development and execution of the sector-specific initiatives, projects, and programs, offering support to ATU Members in their preparations for global and regional conferences, including contributing to standardization related programmes at the Africa Union (AU) as well as the African Telecommunications/ICTs Organizations.

Prior to joining the ATU in January 2024, Mr Boateng was a deputy director in charge of technical regulations at the National Communications Authority (NCA) of Ghana. He was specifically responsible for regulations on emerging technologies as well as network quality of service monitoring, billing verification, traffic, revenue assurance and anti-fraud monitoring, licensing development, equipment authorisation, numbering management and a technical trainer.

He has also served as an ITU standardization expert since 2008, assuming the roles of a Vice Chair Telecommunications Standardization Advisory Group (TSAG), Associate Rapporteur of TSAG, Vice Chair and Rapporteur for ITU-T SG11, Chair of ITU-T CASC and Chair of ITU-T SG11 Regional Group for Africa. He has edited several ITU-T Recommendations and Technical Papers. Mr Boateng has also attended and contributed actively to several ITU Conferences including the Plenipotentiary Conference (PP), World Telecommunications Standardization Assembly (WTSA), World Telecommunications Development Conference (WTDC), ITU Council meetings, TSAG and Study Groups.

Mr Boateng holds an M.Sc. degree in Electronics and Computer Engineering (Brunel University, UK), with specialisation in Wireless Communication Systems, B.Sc. degree in Physics (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology, KNUST, GHANA) and former Adjunct Lecturer at the School of Technology, Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA).

He has chaired several Committees including the ECOWAS Free Roaming Committee on Antifraud, NCA Technical Committee, Ghana National Committee on EMF Monitoring and Public Education among others. He was a Board Member of the Radiation Protection Institute of the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission, a member of the Bank of Ghana Payment and Automation Systems Committee, a member of Ghana National Technical Committee on Telecom/ICTs Standards Development as well a member of the IEC Technical Committee of Ghana. He has worked in diverse teams as a leader and a contributor to the success of the various teams.