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Mohamed Abbes Public Policy Director, GSMA Mohamed’s career experience in ICT spans 15 years. Before joining the GSMA as Public Policy Director – MENA in February 2017, Mohamed managed advisory and strategic consulting in the telecommunications regulation within PwC in all the African French speaking countries within MENA. Mohamed’s previous career experience included working as a senior manager Regulatory Affairs for Ooredoo Group in Qatar, between 2014 and 2016, where he provided support to the 11 Ooredoo operators worldwide and participated to several missions across Ooredoo’s footprint. Before that, Mohamed was the head of Regulatory Affairs and Wholesale Business Department at Ooredoo Tunisia for four years. In addition to regulatory affairs and wholesale experience, Mohamed’s telecommunications experience also includes a role in 2003 as an engineer at the technical department of Ooredoo Tunisia where he ended in 2009 as Head of Rollout of the mobile network of Ooredoo Tunisia. Meanwhile, Mohamed was chosen by Orascom Holding in early 2009 to participate in the mission to restructure the newly acquired operator in Central African Republic (Telecel CAR) as a Head of Rollout. Mohamed holds a Master’s degree in Engineering from Tunis School of Engineering (2001).
Denis Andreev ITU Denis ANDREEV was graduated from the Moscow Power Engineering Institute (MPEI) in 2000. From 2000 till 2011 he worked for Central Research Telecommunication Institute (ZNIIS) as a Director of telecommunication testing centre (Technopark, Russia). Under his supervision, Technopark started testing key technologies which were implemented on Russian networks. Being a delegate, he had been contributing to SG11 for 12 years and was appointed as a Rapporteur of Q10/11 and Q11/11. Also, he is an author of 9 ITU-T Recommendations on C&I testing. He chaired the joint ZNIIS/ITU project, aimed at establishing the International Telecommunication Testing Centre (ITTC) for the CIS Region. In 2012 he joined the ITU-T in Geneva as the TSB C&I Programme Coordinator. As of now he is Advisor of ITU-T SG11 "Signalling requirements, protocols, test specifications and combating counterfeit products".
Joseph Eid Vice President Sales, Invigo Joseph Eid is a Telecommunications Expert, he currently leads Invigo’s business development team and strategy across Middle East, Africa and Asia. He holds an Engineering Master’s degree from ULFG, with a major from Grenoble Ecole De Management. He started his career in France working in the technical field of Deep Packet Inspection and Policy management. He then moved into presales and presales management roles helping map business requirements into relevant technical propositions and architectures. He also is an expert in the Billing space and Device Management. This background enabled him to understand deeply both the business and technical aspects of the telecommunications industry. Holder of double nationality French and Lebanese, he has over a decade of international telecom experience and has held positions at Orange, Volubill (CSG), Redknee and Invigo.
Kofi Ntim Yeboah-Kordieh Regulatory Administrations Division of the National Communications Authority Mr. Kofi Ntim Yeboah-Kordieh is a Manager at the Regulatory Administrations Division of the National Communications Authority. He is in charge of the Standards Unit, which deals with equipment Type Approval and combating non-conforming electronic communications equipment. He is an active member of ITU-T Study Group 11. He is an engineering professional with over ten years of experience. Kofi has a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, an MBA in Finance from University of Ghana and a Master's Degree in Communications and Signal Processing from the University of Leeds.
Andrey Kucheryavy Chairman of SG11, SPbSUT After graduating from Leningrad University of Telecommunications in 1974, A. Koucheryavy joined Telecommunication Research Institute LONIIS, where he worked till October 2003 (from 1986 to 2003 as the First Deputy Director). Dr. A. Koucheryavy holds Professor position at the Bonch-Bruevich St. Petersburg State University of Telecommunications (SUT) since 1998. There, in 2011 he became a Chaired Professor in "Telecommunication Networks and data transmission" department. Dr. A. Koucheryavy was an advisor of the Central Science Research Telecommunication Institute (ZNIIS) from 2003 to 2010. Co-founder of the International Teletraffic Seminar (1993, 1995, 1998, 2002); founder of the model network for digital networks at LONIIS (1997); co-founder of the model network for packet networks at ZNIIS (2004); co-founder of the Internet of Things Laboratory (2012) and Quality of Experience and IPTV Laboratory (2014) at SUT. Chair of the Scientific school on teletraffic theory in LONIIS (1990 – 2003); Founder and scientific school chair "Internet of Things and self-organizing networks" in SUT (2010 up to now); Steering committee member of IEEE technically co-sponsored series of conferences ICACT and NEW2AN. SG11 ITU-T vice-chairman 2005 – 2008, 2009 – 2012. WP3/WP4 SG11 chairman 2006 – 2012, WP4 SG11 vice-chairman 2015-2016, Chairman of SG11 in Study period 2017-2020. Co-founder of International Testing Center for new telecommunications technologies at ZNIIS under ITU-D competence. Host and technical program committees member of the "Kaleidoscope 2014" at SUT. Honorary member of Popov's society (2002).
Najla Triki Director of marketing and cooperation, CERT Ms Najla Triki is in charge of the CERT Cooperation and Marketing Department. She holds a degree in engineering from the National School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Hydraulics of Toulouse (France): ENSEEIHT in June 95, then a research master's degree from the Ecole Supérieure des Communications ( SUP'COM) of Tunisia, in November 2008. She evolved in the CERT's studies department, then as director in charge of electronic administration at the Ministry in charge of Communication Technologies, then as director information systems at CERT, before being responsible for cooperation and marketing at CERT. During her career, she managed projects to pilot the implementation of secure telecommunications infrastructure for businesses in Tunisia and across Africa. She has also worked on strategic studies projects as well as information systems development projects. In particular, she contributed to the project to set up the Centralized Mobile Terminal Identification Register in Tunisia.
Abdelwahab Zramdini Vice President, Head of Products, Government & Trade Solutions, Cotecna He holds a Software Engineer degree from ENSI – Tunis, a PHD degree from the University of Fribourg Switzerland and a MBA from the University of Geneva. Abdelwahab started his career in the academic research in the areas of parallel machines and document recognition. In the late 90's, he moved to the ICT services industry with a special focus on the development of document and workflow management solutions. In 2000, he joined Cotecna as IT Project Manager and then has undertaken product management and marketing responsibilities. He is currently leading a team responsible of the development and delivery of products and services designed to support governments collecting revenue, facilitating trade, protecting consumers and securing borders. Abdelwahab holds Tunisian and Swiss passports.