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Joao Zanon, ANATEL

​​Joao Zanon's PhotoMr. Joao Zanon (zanon@anatel.gov.br) is a Telecommunication engineer that works at ANATEL´s Regulatory Division, which is responsible for the development of regulatory policies in regards to telecommunications services in Brazil. Currently, he is one of the coordinators of the Regulatory team and lead key project at ANATEL, such as the national initiative on the combat of counterfeit and stolen ICT devices, transition to IPv6, Geolocation on emergency calls, lawful interception and other security related initiatives. He also focuses his work on other telecommunication regulation subjects, like quality of service measurement, MVNO, Mobile Payment, IoT, among others. Mr. Zanon also contributes on other international forums, such as REGULATE and CITEL Permanent Consultative Committee I – PCC.I (telecommunication/ICT policy, regulatory aspects, standardization, cybersecurity, international public policy issues relating to the Internet), acting as Brazil’s Head of Delegation at various meetings. At CITEL PCC.I, he is Co-Rapporteur of the Rapporteurship on fraud control, regulatory non-compliance practices in telecommunications and regional measures against the theft of mobile terminal devices, and Rapporteur of the Correspondence on the Combat of Counterfeit ICT, where he´s leading the discussion on the combat against counterfeit devices. He was appointed on the last WTSA-16 as Vice-Chairman of ITU-T SG11 and on this study period (2017-2020) is the rapporteur of the Question Q15/11 and Liaison Officer from ITU-T SG11 to CITEL.​