 Mercy Buku
Legal and Risk Management Consultant
Mercy Buku is a Certified Antimoney Laundering Specialist and an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya, Commissioner for Oaths and Notary Public, and was admitted to the Kenyan Bar in December 1989. Mercy is currently practising as an AML/CFT Legal Consultant in the Mobile payments and Banking Sector and was previously the Senior Manager, Money Laundering Reporting Office in Safaricom Limited (Kenya) where she was charged with the responsibility for overseeing the Anti- money Laundering Function for Mpesa and related financial services offered by Safaricom Limited. Mercy has a Bachelor of Laws Honors Degree from the University of Nairobi and a Master’s Degree in Banking and Financial Law from the University of London, and is also an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers (UK). She started her career as a State Counsel in the Attorney General’s Chambers (State Law Office) in Kenya, prior to joining the private sector and has also served as Legal Officer, and Head of Legal and Compliance in CFC Bank Limited, the Eastern and Southern African Development (PTA) Bank and Cooperative Bank of Kenya Limited. Mercy has extensive experience as a trainer and consultant in Compliance and Anti-money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism in the Digital Financial Services and Banking Sector and has made presentations at various local and international AML/CFT Workshops and Conferences and has also published various articles and reports in the same field. Mercy has also consulted on various financial inclusion and regulatory projects undertaken by international organizations such as the World Bank (CGAP), Financial Services Volunteer Corps (FSVC), GIZ, GSMA, Bankable Frontier Associates (BFA) Toronto Centre, Global Centre for Corporative Security (GCCS) and the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). In 2019, Mercy was tasked with drafting the AML/CFT Guidelines for the legal profession in Kenya under a GIZ sponsored project, and was also privileged to be invited to address the UN Security Council in March 2019, on the topic Financial Inclusion and Financial Integrity. In 2020, Mercy was also tasked with drafting of Beneficial Ownership Information Guidelines, also under a GIZ sponsored project, to aid stakeholders comply with the newly enacted Beneficial Ownership Information Regulations in Kenya.
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Ranganai Chaparadza
Senior Altran CapGemini Technical & Technology Consultant, Vodafone
Ranganai Chaparadza: Dr.-Ing./PhD, is a Senior Altran CapGemini Technical & Technology Consultant for Vodafone (and for other Telecommunications Network Operators as well) and Solutions Design Architect, while also supporting in the Standardization of Autonomic/Autonomous Networking in ETSI TC INT AFI WG. He is also IPv6 Forum Fellow representative in ETSI TC INT AFI WG to bring perspectives of IPv6 enablers for autonomic network setup and operation. He actively supports Network Operators in various aspects: Vendor Management and Solutions Selections on SDN/NFV and E2E Service Assurance Solutions for Telco Networks and Data Center (DC) Network Services; Business Development with Emerging ICT Technologies and Future Networks; Standardization Expert (ETSI, BBF, ITU-T, NGMN, TMF, 3GPP, IEEE, IETF, ONF, MEF); R&D; RFIs/RFQs/RFPs Processes and Solution Supplier Selection; SDN/NFV TCO (Total Cost of Ownership); Building Optimal Commercial Models for Transport SDN and NFV; Procurement Transformation in the Era of SDN/NFV; Products Innovation with SDN, NFV and AMC (Autonomic Management & Control) for Network Automation using ETSI GANA oriented Standards; ETSI 5G PoC on E2E Closed-Loop (Autonomic) Service Assurance and E2E Autonomic Security Assurance for 5G Network Slices. He is also contributor to IEEE INGR Future Networks Standardization Building Blocks (SBB) Roadmap WG, IEEE INGR Systems Optimization WG, and IEEE INGR Testbeds WG.
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 Chris Drake
Chief Technology Officer, Iconectiv
Chris Drake, Chief Technology Officer at iconectiv, is responsible for internal and external technology initiatives including emerging opportunities in trusted communications, cybersecurity, mobile content, mobile identity, virtualization and M2M/IoT. Drake began his career at Bell Northern Research and has over 25 years in the Telecommunications industry. Prior to iconectiv, Chris held executive positions at Neustar, Sonus Networks, Telcordia Technologies as well as other companies. Drake is also an executive advisor to technology startups and had worked with the Canadian Consulate Tech Accelerator @ NYC for many years. Drake contributes to various GSMA efforts including the Fraud and Security Group, The Networks Group, and the Industry Specification Approving Group. Drake is on the board and executive committee of the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS), chair of the ATIS Technology and Operations Council, and board member for the SIP Forum. Drake is a longstanding member of the CTIA cybersecurity working group, the Cybersecurity Advisory Board for the Pace University Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems, and has served on the Industrial Advisory Board for the Security and Software Engineering Research Center (S2ERC) for Georgetown and Ball State Universities through the National Science Foundation. Drake also serves on the FCC federal advisory committee, the North American Numbering Council.
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Muslim Elkotob
Principal Solutions Architect, Vodafone
Muslim is a Principal Solutions Architect at Vodafone with a lead role and end-to-end responsibility in the Enterprise Business Line. His works on driving innovation and standardizing architectures in the areas of SDN/NFV, Autonomics, Slicing and Security in 5G and IoT. He is an IPv6-Forum Fellow and delegate with lead roles in various SDOs including ETSI, TMForum, ITU-T and IEEE. Having a career background with vendors, service providers and R&D, he has spent the last seven years strengthening Vodafone’s role in the enterprise Value Chain as a global player with a powerful infrastructure and autonomic IT services on top.
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Richard Hill
Independent Consultant
Richard is currently an independent consultant. Prior to that, he was Counsellor for Study Groups 2 and 3 at the International Telecommunications Union, that is technical secretary for the ITU groups dealing with operational aspects of service provision, networks and performance, including numbering issues (for example, assignment of international country codes) and charging and accounting matters. Prior to joining ITU, Richard was Department Head, IT Infrastructure Delivery and Support, at Orange Communications (a GSM operator). He previously was the IT Manager at the University of Geneva; held various IT and telecommunications positions in Hewlett-Packard Europe; worked as a Research Statistician for A.C. Nielsen; as a systems designer and manager for software for econometric modelling and the management of financial portfolios at M.I.T and spinoffs. Richard holds a Ph.D. in Statistics from Harvard University and a B.S. in Mathematics from M.I.T. Prior to his studies in the U.S.A., he obtained the Maturita' from the Liceo Scientifico A. Righi in Rome, Italy.
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 Assaf Klinger
Head of R&D, Vaulto Communication Technologies Ltd
Assaf Klinger is an accomplished cyber security entrepreneur, specializing in telecom, cryptography and DLTs. In the last 3 years, Assaf has founded two startups, one in the crypto-currency AML/CTF space, and the other is helping SMEs cope with the labor changes brought about by COVID-19. A native of Israel, Assaf has over 20 years' experience as a software & hardware developer and as a security researcher with specialty in cyber-telcom vulnerability research. Assaf is an IDF intelligence corps. veteran of 13 years (Maj. Ret.) and has led the development of many complex systems, for this Assaf was decorated in 2011 with the Israel Defense award, the highest award a non-combatant in Israel, given for exceptional technological achievements and major contribution to the security of Israel. Assaf has a BSc. in electrical engineering from Tel-Aviv university and an MBA from the Technion. Assaf is a family man, married with twins, in his spare time he enjoys tinkering with IoT electronics and music.
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 Gustavo Konte
Telcom cybersecurity expert & Business Development Lead, Positive Technologies
Gustavo is a Cybersecurity Expert with 20 years of experience in the Telecom Business. From startup MNO’s to challenging engineering roles on vendors such as Alcatel and LogicaCMG, he has built an end-to-end vision of the industry. From provisioning to billing, Gustavo has worked on Packet Core, Subscribers Databases, OSS, BSS, Value Added Services, IP backbone, and security layers. Gustavo has joined Positive Technologies after taking part in a massive security transformation plan on a South American MNO, leading the Network Engineering tasks for the project. He holds a BE in Electronic Engineering, with a specialization in Telco and Systems Engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. |
 Jean-Paul Lemaire
Lecturer, Gustave Eiffel University, France
Activities in ITU-T:
• Study Period 2017-2020: Rapporteur of Q.11/17 (Generic technologies to support secure applications)
• Study period 2013-2016: Associate Rapporteur of Q.11/17 (Generic technologies to support secure applications)
Activities in ISO/IEC:
• Since 2013 Convenor of ISO/IEC/SC 6/WG 10 (Directory, ASN.1 and registration)
• 2007-2013 Convenor of ISO/IEC/SC 6/WG 8 (Directory)
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 Cheng Li
ITU-T Q2/11 Rapporteur, CAICT
Cheng Li works in CAICT (China Academy of Information and Communications Technology), engaged in telecommunication technology study and standardization. Cheng Li has taken the leader role of technical solution and standardization of IMS interconnection between operators in China since 2018. As the rapporteur of ITU-T Q2/11, Cheng Li is responsible for organizing the development of ITU-T Recommendations of signalling protocols in telecommunication networks.
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 Chang Liu
Standardization Delegate, China Mobile
Chang Liu works in China Mobile as a standardization delegate, major in 5G security. As the rapporteur of 3GPP SA3 eNA (enabler of network automation) study item and work item, Chang is responsible to promote the security of network automation enabler (NWDAF) and the related security issues.
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 Philippe Fouquart
Senior Expert, Orange
Philippe Fouquart is Senior Expert in Naming, Numbering & Addressing at the French based global operator Orange and is in charge of coordinating NN&A for network and service design within the Research&Development division of Orange. Philippe is active in a number of industry groups and participate in several national, regional and international bodies responsible for naming, numbering & addressing policies and standards such as the ITU, ETSI and ICANN.
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 Ewout Pronk
Senior Security Architect, NetNumber | Chairman DESS, Fraud And Security Group, GSMA
Ewout is as a Senior Security Architect focusing on the security and anti-fraud strategy at NetNumber. Ewout is also an industry recognized key contributor to security and fraud standardization work in the GSMA where he is currently chair of the Diameter End-to-end Security Subgroup (DESS). The DESS group is delivering solution directions to secure the inter-PLMN interface by design for both LTE and 5G as well as working on procedures to exchange key material to serve secure LTE/5G roaming and call validation between GSMA members.Ewout has over 18 years’ experience in telecoms. Originally focusing on mobile core networks Ewout has worked for T-Mobile Netherlands, Nokia Siemens Networks, Orange Switzerland, Ericsson UK and KPN where he had several roles including senior designer and senior architect.
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 Minrui Shi
Senior engineer, Department of Emerging Technology Research, China Telecom Institute.
He is performing role as a Rapporteur of Q13 of ITU-T Study Group 11. Mr. Minrui Shi is focusing on developing the technical strategies and standardization for traditional and emerging telecommunication technologies including signalling security, service and network monitoring, intellegent vision services etc.
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