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​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Heung Youl Youm
Chairman, ITU-T Study Group 17, Security | Professor, Department of Information Security Engineering, Soonchunhyang University​, South Korea

He is Chairman of ITU-T SG17 (Security). He is working as a professor for the Department of Information Security Engineering of the Soonchunhyang University, Korea from September 1990. He is currently the Director of SCH Cybersecurity Research Centre from Dec. 2013. He began participating in ITU-T SG 17 in 2003 and has actively contributed to the work of SG17 as a core member of security experts. He was an associate Rapporteur of SG 17 Question 10/17 from 2003 to 2004. For the Study Period (2005 – 2008), he served as a Rapporteur of ​Question 9/17. He was a Vice Chairman of ITU-T Study Group 17 from 2009 to 2016. He was a Chairman of Working Party 2 (Application Security) of SG17 for the Study Period (2009–2012) and was a Chairman of Working Party 3 (Identity management and cloud computing security) of SG17 for the Study Period (2013–2016). He has been a Project Editor for many approved ITU-T Recommendations or agreed Supplements in DLT security, authentication/application protocols, de-identification techniques, USN/IoT security, 5G security, and cybersecurity.  He is a Commissioner for the Korea Personal Information Protection Commission, a Chairman for the ISMS/PIMS certification committee in Korea since 2007, and a Board director for Korea Information/Security agency. He was a president of KIISC (Korea Institute on information security and cryptology) in 2011 and is an emeritus president of KIISC. He had worked for ETRI as a senior research engineer from 1982 to 1990. He had been involved in developing high speed transmission system. He had been involved in many (advisory or self-performance evaluation) committees for the Korea National Security Office for the Korea Presidential office from 2018 to 2022, the Korea Communications Commission (KCC) from 2008 to 2016, the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP) from 2013 to 2017, the Ministry of Industry and Energy (MoTIE) from 2015 to 2017. He had been involved in self-performance evaluation) committees for the Ministry of Science and ICT since 2017. He had been the chairman for the committee on information security in the PyeongChang Organizing Committee for the 2018 Olympic & Paralympic Winter Games from January 2015 to May 2018. He received a Bachelor degree in 1981, a Master degree in 1983, and a Ph.D. degree in 1990, all in Electronics Engineering from Hanyang University, Korea. 
Herbert Bertine
ITU-T Study Group Former Chair

Herbert Bertine is a former chairman of ITU-T Study Group 17 and previously Study Group 7, having served from 1993 to 2008. He has been actively involved in the standards work of the ITU since 1975 and has held senior leadership positions for 28 years. He has devoted extensive efforts in facilitating cooperation with SDOs. Herb also has been active in other arenas dealing with ICT standards including ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 6 and ANSI. He was instrumental in developing the collaborative procedures between ITU-T and JTC 1 (reflected in Rec. A.23) and in establishing the cooperative procedures with the IETF. Herb retired in November 2007. He was Director, Standards at Lucent Technologies where he led Lucent's standards efforts worldwide. He joined Bell Laboratories in June 1965 and spent his career in communication technologies. This included systems engineering work on modems, digital data systems, X.25 packet networks, open systems, and advanced communication systems. Since 1982, he had various responsibilities for corporate-wide standards management. In October 2006, Herb was awarded the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Edward Lohse Information Technology Medal for outstanding technical and managerial leadership in establishing international information technology and telecommunications standards and the methods by which they are produced. Herb has a Bachelor of E​lectrical Engineering degree and a Master of Electrical Engineering degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Vasily Dolmatov
Technology Advisor & Head of Division, Perspective Investigations, Joint Stock Research and Production Company "​Kryptonite" | WP1/17 Chairman 

Vasily Dolmat​ov has been working in the Internet development since 2000, when he became a member of Coordination Group of ccTLD.RU, then he continued his work as a Council Member of Coordination Centre of ccTLD .RU. Vasily was actively participating in IETF working groups and has been contributing to the development of multiple RFCs setting international standards in the area of Internet technologies, he has been a co-author of Russian federal standards in informational security field also. Since 2014 he is actively working in Study Group 17 “Security” in Standardization section of International Telecommunication Union (ITU-T), in 2016 he was elected Vice-Chairman of said Study Group. Now he is a Working Party 1 Chairman of Study Group 17.
​Zhiyuan Hu
Director, Security Research, Vivo Mobile Communication Co. Ltd.

Ms. Zhiyuan Hu got her Ph.D. in computer science in 2002. She worked as a security researcher at Nokia Shanghai Bell Co. Ltd. from 2002 to 2021​. Since July 2021, she has worked as Director of Security Research at Vivo Mobile Communication Co. Ltd. Dr. Hu was nominated for Vice-Chair of WP2/SG17 (5G, IoT& ITS security) (2021-present), Co-Rapporteur of Q2/SG17 (Security architecture and network security) (2017-present) and Associate Rapporteur of Q2/SG17 (2015-2016). As the main contributor, she completed to publish about ten ITU-T recommendations. She acted as Chair of OMA (Open Mobile Alliance) security working group (2009-2014) and Vice-Chair of OMA security working group (2007-2008). She completed to publish several OMA specifications. She also acted as Vice-Chair of CCSA (China Communications Standards Association) TC5 WG5 (Wireless communication security) (2008-2021) and completed to publish several CCSA specifications.​​
​​ Juhee Ki
ITU-T Study Group 17 Q1 Co-Rapporteur | Senior Researcher, Global Cooperation and Standardization R&D Team, IITP, South Korea

Dr. Juhee Ki is a principal researcher at IITP (Institute of Information & communications Technology Planning & Evaluation). She has worked for IITP from 2003, which was established in 1999 as a government organization under the Ministry of Science and ICT to support R&D policy-making, R&D planning & evaluation, and expanding R&D results. She is responsible for ICT Standardization in IITP. She received her Ph. D. degree in 2013 from Korea University, Korea. She had been a visiting scholar at University of California, Davis from August 2014 to July 2016. Her main interests include Public Key Cryptography Application, Privacy & Anonymity and Authentication in the cybersecurity field. She is the Co-Rapporteur of Question 1 of ITU-T Study Group 17 since 2021. 
Jonghyun Kim
WP1 Vice-Chair and Q4 Co-Rapporteur, ITU-T Study Group 17, Security | Principal Researcher, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)

Jonghyun Kim began participating in ITU-T SG 17 in 2006 and has actively contributed to the work of SG17 as a core member of security experts for more than 15 years. For the Study Period (2022 – 2024), he has served as a WP1 Vice-Chair and Co-Rapporteur of Question 4/17. He was a researcher with the Samsung Electronics in 1995-1998. He joined the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) in 2005. His research interests include Cyber Security, Network Forensics, Cloud Security (SecaaS) and 5G/6G Security.

Gyu Myoung Lee
Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU)
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Dr. Gyu Myoung Lee is with the Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), UK, as a Reader from 2014 and with KAIST Institute for IT convergence, Korea, as an Adjunct Professor from 2012. Prior to joining the LJMU, he has worked with the Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis, France, from 2008. Until 2012, he had been invited to work with the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Korea. He also worked as a research professor in KAIST, Korea and as a guest researcher in National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA, in 2007. His research interests include Internet of things, digital twin, computational trust, knowledge centric networking and services, multimedia services, and energy saving technologies. He has been actively working for standardization in ITU-T, IETF and oneM2M, etc. He was the chair of ITU-T Focus Group on data processing and management (FG-DPM) to support IoT and smart cities & communities and currently serves as a WP chair in SG13, a Rapporteur of Q16/13 and Q4/20. He is a Senior Member of IEEE. He received his BS degree from Hong Ik University, Seoul, Korea, in 1999 and his MS and PhD degrees from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea, in 2000 and 2007.​
​Zhaoji Lin
Director, ICT Security Standardization, ZTE Corporation, China 

Zhaoji Lin is the vice-chairman of ITU-T SG17 and co-chairman of Working Party of ITU-T SG17. He works as an ICT Security Standardization director in the technical planning and development unit at ZTE Corporation. He was also active in many international and regional standards organizations, including Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and China Communications Standards Association (CCSA) in the areas of device management, digital rights management, identity management, IoT security and cloud computing security and 5G securit. He is the author, editor, and co-editor of many ITU-T recommendations, OMA specifications and CCSA standards.

​Yutaka Miyake
Director, Information and Security Department, 
KDDI Research, Inc.

Dr. Yutaka Miyake has been engaged in the research on high-speed communication protocol and secure communication system at the KDD R&D Laboratories and KDDI Research, Inc. He is currently a director of Information System and Security Department in KDDI Research Inc. He began participating in ITU-T SG 17 in 2005 and has been actively contributing to its activities as information security expert. He is a vice chair of ITU-T SG17, and a chair of WP2/SG17.​

​​Jae Hoon Nah
ITU-T Study Group 17 WP4 Chair & Rapporteur | Special Fellow Researcher, Security Research Laboratory, ETRI, South Korea

He began participating in ITU-T SG 17 in 2005. For the two Study Periods (2009 – 2012, 2013-2016), he served as a Rapporteur of Question 7/17 (Secure Application Services). He has been a Project Editor or Co-editor for 8 approved ITU-T Recommendations or agreed Supplements in the area of P2P (Peer-to-Peer) security, IPTV security, Web security, authentication protocol. From 1987, he has worked as a researcher for ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute), Republic of Korea. He is currently a special fellow researcher of Security Research Laboratory in ETRI. He had developed wired/mobile call processing software of a digital switching machine (TDX-10 ISDN, TDX-ATM) from 1987 to 2000. And He had developed security protocols and standards of secure P2P services, scalable code of IPTV security, Mashup Web security and enhanced attribute-aggregated authentication from 2001.​
Heung Ryong Oh
ITU-T Study Group 17 Q2 Co-rapporteur | Chief Researcher, Standardization Division, TTA (Telecommunications Technology Association), South Korea

He is working as a researcher for the standardization division of the TTA, Korea from February 2004. He is responsible for domestic standards for information security in TTA. He began participating in ITU-T SG17 in 2004 and has served an associate rapporteur of Q2 from 2009 to 2016, a co-rapporteur of Q2 in ITU-T SG17 since 2017. He received a Bachelor degree in 2002 (Electronics Engineering), a Master degree in 2004, and a Ph.D. degree in 2018, all in Information security from Soonchunhyang University, South Korea.​
Arnaud Taddei
Broadcom | ITU-T Study Group 17 Vice-chairman

M. Arnaud Taddei is Practice Leader of the international team of Security Transformation Architects and Strategists supporting Broadcom Software Group key customers. As part of his mission, M. Taddei participates in specific Standardization Defining Organizations and in particular he is ITU-T SG17 Vice Chairman representing the UK. Prior to that, he was Technical Director, Standards and Architectures reporting directly to the CTO of Symantec, a Division of Broadcom. M. Taddei was delegated by Broadcom at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) where he held a number of leadership and chairmanship positions on Security and overall Standardization Strategy. M. Taddei participated to IETF, ISO and ETSI. 

Zhili Wang
Ph D, Associate Professor, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China | ITU-T Study Group 2


Wang Zhili, Ph D, is an associate professor in Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China. He is engaged in scientific, technology, and standardization research work in communication networks and computers science. His main research directions are network management, communications software, and interface testing, and he has ever won the National Science and Technology Progress Awards in China once. He has been served as the Working Party 2 Chairman and Question 7 Rapporteur for ITU-T Study Group 2 since 2013. He is experienced in network management standardization, and has lead the development of more than 20 ITU-T Recommendations in network management domain.​​

Fanqin Zhou
ITU-T Study Group 2 |​ Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), China 

Fanqin ZHOU, Ph.D., a lecturer with the State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology, BUPT. His research interests mainly focus on network intelligent management in B5G/6G networks, industrial wireless networks, computing power networks, etc. He published more than 50 SCI/EI indexed papers in journals and conferences such as IEEE TII\WCM\IoT Journal\WCL\ICC\GC and obtained 3 China national patent authorizations. He received the Annual Best Paper Award from the IEEE BTS Society and Science and Technology Progress Award from the China Electrotechnical Society.​
Xiaoya Yang
ITU-T Study Group 17 Counselor

Xiaoya Yang serves as the Counselor of ITU-T Study Group 17 ‘security’ since 2017. With 20+ years of professional experience in telecommunication regulation, legislation and international standardization and coordination, she was the Head of the WTSA Programmes Division in the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU-TSB) from 2010 to 2016, Co-counsellor of ITU-T Study Group 2 on 'Operational aspects of service provision and telecommunications management' and Study Group 3 on 'Tariff and accounting principles including related telecommunication economic and policy issues' from 2009 to 2010; Counselor of ITU-T Study Group 17 on 'Telecommunication security' from 2007 to 2008; and Workshop Project Coordinator from 2004 to 2006. Before joining ITU, she worked in the Ministry of Information Industry of China from 1998 to 2004. There she was the Division Director responsible for regulation of Internet and information security. From 1997 to 1998 she worked in China Telecom as a network engineer and service manager in their Internet service department. She has a M.S. in Computer Science from Tsinghua University, China and a MBA from Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.
​​Gillian Makamara
Project Officer, TSB, ITU

Gillian Makamara is a Project Officer in the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB) of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) where she supports the development of international standards on Cybersecurity in ITU-T Study Group 17 and on Performance, quality of service (QoS) and quality of experience (QoE) in ITU-T Study Group 12. Gillian also contributes to ITU's work in the fields of quantum communications. Gillian holds degrees in Telecommunication Engineering from the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) and the University of Liverpool. 

​Gifty Amoah
Asssociate Events Coordinator, TSB, ​ITU

Gifty is the secretari​at​ of all TSB non-statutory events which includes, workshops, seminars and forums.​