{"id":1533,"date":"2023-08-08T12:09:43","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T12:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/cities\/?page_id=1533"},"modified":"2025-08-20T09:21:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T09:21:56","slug":"okan-geray","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/cities\/standards4dt\/okan-geray\/","title":{"rendered":"Okan Geray"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Okan Geray<\/strong><\/strong>
Strategic Planning Advisor, Digital Dubai
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Dr. Okan Geray has more than 25 years of experience in consulting and advisory roles across various industries. He has consulted for a number of organizations in Netherlands, France, Italy, Germany, South Africa, Turkey and Dubai. He worked at A.T. Kearney global management consulting firm for 6 years and was a member of the Global Telecommunications and Higher Technology core team before he joined Dubai Government in 2002. He has worked as the Strategic Planning Advisor in Dubai eGovernment, Dubai Smart Government, Smart Dubai Office and recently Dubai Digital Authority. His responsibilities include Strategic Planning, Strategic Performance Management and Policy Making among others.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Dr. Geray is the U4SSC Chair (U4SSC is a UN initiative coordinated by ITU, UNECE and UN-Habitat and supported by other 16 UN bodies, that help support the development of institutional policies and strategies which encourage the use of digital technologies to facilitate digital transformation and ease the transition to smart sustainable cities). He is leading several thematic groups globally for U4SSC namely \u201cGuidelines on Strategies for Circular Cities\u201d, \u201cCity Science Application Framework\u201d, \u201cAI in Cities\u201d, \u201cEnabling People-Centered Cities through Digital Transformation\u201d, and \u201cDigital Wellbeing\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Dr. Geray is the Co-Rapporteur of the ITU Study Group 20, Question 7 on \u201cEvaluation and assessment of Smart Sustainable Cities and Communities\u201d. He is a member of the IEC-ISO-ITU Joint Smart Cities Task Force (J-SCTF). He is Co-Chairing the Working Group \u201cEconomic, regulatory & competition aspects\u201d in the ITU Focus Group on metaverse (FG-MV). He was also the Co-Chair of the \u201cData Economy Impact, Commercialization and Monetization\u201d Working Group, part of the ITU Focus Group on Data Processing and Management.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Dr. Geray holds a double major B. Sc. degree in Industrial and Computer Engineering from Bosphorus University in Istanbul Turkey, an M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. degree in Systems and Control Engineering from the University of Massachusetts in the US. He has published several journal and conference papers and was an adjunct lecturer in management for 15 years.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/blockquote>\n<\/div> <\/div>\n

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