Ida Jallow
Senior Liaison Officer, ITU Liaison Office to the United Nations
I am a lawyer by profession with a master’s degree with Merit in law from the University of London: LLM Hons. I have been a Regulator in the Gambia, my native country for four years, A regulatory specialist in Zain/ Airtel in Sierra Leone for 3 years and with the ITU since 2012 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
I started as a Senior Project Coordinator of the HIPSSA project, an ITU\EU 14-million-euro project on the Harmonization of policies and legal frameworks in the ICT markets in Sub Saharan Africa. I became a program coordinator of the ITU Regional office for Africa. I am now the ITU Senior Liaison Officer to United Nations.
I have two daughters and a son. I am passionate about gender equality, Girls and Women in Tech, female empowerment and leadership, women, and children rights.