 Yaw Boamah Baafi
Vice-Chair, SG2RG-AFR
Yaw Boamah Baafi is the Deputy Director for Regulatory Administration Division at the National Communications Authority (NCA) of Ghana, where he oversees service improvements within the Ghana Telecoms sector, the administration and management of Ghana national numbering plan. Yaw is currently one of the vice chairs of ITU-T Study Group 2, which is in charge of numbering, naming, addressing, and identification; routing; service definition; telecommunications for disaster relief and early warning; network resilience and recovery; and telecommunication management. Since 2017, he has also served as Vice Chair of the ITU-T SG2 Regional Group for Africa (SG2AFR).
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 Isaac Boateng
Director, Standardization, African Telecommunications Union (ATU)
Isaac Boateng is currently the Director for Standardization with the African Telecommunications Union (ATU) – the specialised agency of the African Union (AU) responsible for Telecommunications/ICTs, based in Nairobi, Kenya with his professional working experience spanning over 23 years. At the ATU Secretariat, Mr. Boateng is responsible for coordinating and spearheading the development and execution of the sector-specific initiatives, projects, and programs, offering support to the fifty-two (52) Member States and over fifty-four (54) Associate Members, in their preparations for global and regional conferences, including contributing to standardization related programmes at the Africa Union (AU) as well as the African Telecommunications/ICTs Organizations. Prior to joining the ATU in January 2024, Mr Boateng was a Deputy Director in charge of technical regulations at the National Communications Authority (NCA) of Ghana. He was specifically responsible for regulations on emerging technologies as well as network quality of service monitoring, billing verification, traffic, revenue assurance and anti-fraud monitoring, licensing development, equipment authorisation, numbering management and a technical trainer. He has also served as an ITU standardization expert since 2008, assuming the roles of a Vice Chair Telecommunications Standardization Advisory Group (TSAG), Associate Rapporteur of TSAG, Vice Chair and Rapporteur for ITU-T SG11, Chair of ITU-T CASC and Chair of ITU-T SG11 Regional Group for Africa. He has edited several ITU-T Recommendations and Technical Papers. Mr Boateng has also contributed actively to several ITU Conferences including the Plenipotentiary Conference (PP), World Telecommunications Standardization Assembly (WTSA), World Telecommunications Development Conference (WTDC), ITU Council meetings, TSAG and Study Groups.
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 Aminata Drame
Vice-chair, ITU-T SG3RG-AFR, SONATEL, Senegal
Aminata is the Program Director of Strategic Partnerships and Transformation at the Sonatel-Orange Group in Senegal. She has strong technical expertise and a deep understanding of African markets and connectivity across the continent. With over 20 years of experience within Sonatel (Orange Group) in Sub-Saharan Africa, and through various roles in multicultural and competitive environments, she has developed extensive knowledge of regional markets and their specific challenges. Formerly CEO of OINIS Africa (Orange International Networks, Infrastructures, and Services), she also served as Program Director for Infrastructure and Network Strategy in Africa, before taking on her current role as Program Director for Strategic Partnerships and Transformation, leading key strategic initiatives across the continent.In addition to her ability to drive large-scale transformation programs, she is strongly committed to the development of ICT services and connectivity, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. She is actively involved in international regulatory and standardization bodies. She serves as Vice-Chair at the ITU within the TSAG (Telecommunication Standardization Advisory Group) and within Study Group 3 for Africa, and is also Chair of Working Party 3 of Study Group 3 on General Economic and Policy Factors Related to the Enablers of ICT Services She has a solid understanding of the regulatory environment in Africa, with recognized expertise in wholesale, infrastructure, and international connectivity. She also actively contributes to several telecommunications organizations across Africa, including ITU, Smart Africa, CTOA, COFTEL, ECOWAS, and ATU.
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 Shaka Sasha Essa
National Communications Authority of Nigeria (NatCA)
Shaka Sasha Essa originates from Sierra Leone. He holds an educational background in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Fourah Bay College, B.Eng.- 1999), with a specialization in Electronic Communications and Computer Engineering (MSc, The University of Nottingham, UK- 2008). He currently serves as Senior Manager in the Department of Regulatory Administration at the National Communications Authority (NatCA), Sierra Leone’s ICT regulator. In this role, he leads the Fraud Management Systems unit, which also oversees Numbering Management, including the prevention and mitigation of misuse or fraud involving numbering resources. The unit provides expert guidance to the Authority on Short Code Harmonization, Numbering Management Regulations, and the assignment of numbering resources to operators across the country. He represents NatCA on numbering management matters both nationally and internationally, particularly within the ITU-T Study Group 2, where he regularly sends contributions to the ITU-T on regulatory developments and issues of misuse. In recognition of his contributions, he was honored in 2024 to be selected as one of the Vice Chairs of the ITU-T SG2RG-AFR, further strengthening Sierra Leone’s voice in global telecommunications governance.
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 Edmund Yirenkyi Fianko
Director General, National Communications Authorty (NCA) Ghana
Rev. Ing. Edmund Yirenkyi Fianko, the Director General of the National Communications Authority (NCA), Ghana, is an electronic communications engineer with over twenty (20) years of expertise in radio frequency spectrum management, telecom and broadcasting regulation, policy formulation, change management, ICT industry research, writing, publishing, teaching, and public speaking. In 2022, he was elected to the Radio Regulations Board (RRB) by Member countries of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) to serve the global radiocommunications community for a four-year term (2023–2026). He has chaired and also served as a member of several Technical and Regulatory Committees that have shaped industry standards, guidelines, and procedures. Internationally, he has played a significant role in organizations such as the African Telecommunication Union (ATU), the Regional African Satellite Communication Organization (RASCOM), the ITU Policy and Regulation Initiative for Digital Africa (PRIDA) and the Economic Commission of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission.
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 Nura Falalu
Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC)
Nura Falalu holds a master’s degree in electronic systems with Communications from the University of Warwick (2013). He began his professional career at Lion Stern Systems Limited, an embedded software products company in Nigeria, where he worked as Production Test and Certification Engineer. He subsequently joined FirstBank of Nigeria Plc, where he served from 2006 to 2012 in various roles within IT Infrastructure and Electronic Business Operations, with specific responsibilities in ATM Support and Card Management. In 2014, he joined the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and is currently serving in the Office of the Executive Commissioner, Technical Services, which oversees all technical departments of the Commission. These include the Technical Standards and Network Integrity Department, the Spectrum Administration Department, and the Cybersecurity and Internet Governance Department. He has served on several key committees of the Commission, including the Committee for the Development of the Spectrum Roadmap, the Spectrum Trading Committee, the 3.5 GHz Spectrum Auction Committee, which facilitated the deployment of 5G networks in Nigeria and the Committee for the Development and Implementation of the Nigerian National Broadband Plan (2020–2025). He was also a member of the pioneer INEC/NCC Joint Technical Committee on the Electronic Transmission of Election Results, among others. In addition, he has participated in numerous professional training programmes and workshops, including those organized by USTTI, ITU, Philips Consulting, the University of Bradford, Lagos Business School, Hammersmith, and Vital Learning Extra, among others. He is a registered engineer in Nigeria and a Corporate Member of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (MNSE) and Nigerian Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineer (NIEEE). He is also an Alumni of the University of Warwick and Lagos Business School.
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Florin Feticu
Head of the 112 Unit, Special Telecommunications Service, Romania
Florin joined special IT&C service in 2000 and since 2018 is leading the 112 Romania unit, working tirelessly to increase the quality of the emergency service, from technical, operational and legal standpoints. With a background in informatics, he has contributed to several national and European projects, prior to joining the 112 team, as well as afterwards, such as the quality of PSAP's, the technical and operational resilience of the 112 service and the transition to NG112.
His most recent work focused on improving emergency caller location and making the transition to packet-switched technologies as seamless as possible.
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 Lanciné Fofana
Vice-chair, ITU-T SG3RG-AFR, Côte d’Ivoire
Mr Lanciné Fofana is a statistician engineer and Director of Studies and Foresight at ARTCI. After nearly ten years spent working with telecommunications operators, he joined the Regulatory Authority in 2014, where he works on regulatory, interconnection, and competition issues.He also contributes to sector standardization work, notably serving as regional coordinator for the implementation of community roaming in the ECOWAS area until 2024, and as Vice Chair for the Africa region of ITU-T Study Group 3 since 201
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 Pauline T. Djoumessi Gnimpieba
Co-chair, ITU-T SG3RG-AFR
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Pauline T. Djoumessi Gnimpieba, has been Director of Postal, Telecommunications and ICT Regulation at the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the Republic of Cameroon since 2016. Prior to this, she was Technical Advisor to the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications. She is also Coordinator of the Technical Secretariat of the Interministerial Board for Frequency Bands Allocation in Cameroon. With 26 years of experience in the telecommunications sector, she has led several projects, including the strategic development plan for Cameroon's digital economy. Her most important project currently underway is the reform of the legal and regulatory framework for the telecommunications and ICT sector, which is designed to align to digital development, and the development of the national strategy for artificial intelligence. She is actively involved in ITU-T standardisation activities through Study Group 3. She is Co-chair of ITU-T SG3RG-AFR.
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 Cristina Lumbreras
European Emergency Number Association (EENA)
Cristina Lumbreras works as EENA’s Technical Director. Since she joined EENA in 2010, her mission is to coordinates all of the technical and emergency services’ operations activities of the association. She also represents EENA in the international standardisation development organisations, including the European Telecommunications Standards Institute where she is the Chair of the Technical Committee on Emergency Telecommunications. Prior to joining EENA, Cristina served as IT manager of Madrid’s 112 centre in which she designed the IT components. She was a member of the Spanish delegation in the European Commission’s working groups on 112 and eCall. Cristina holds a MA in Computer Science and an MA in Marketing, both from the Autonomous University of Madrid.
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 Anurag Mall
Head of International Telecoms and Digital Markets, Ofcom
Anurag Mall is the Head of International Telecoms and Digital Markets at Ofcom, where he leads the UK regulator’s global engagement on telecoms policy. His work spans net neutrality, cloud services, and wider questions of digital market competition and economic regulation in telecoms. Prior to joining Ofcom, Anurag held commercial and regulatory roles at BT and EDF Energy, advising executives on market reform, consumer protection and complex regulatory frameworks, alongside earlier work in innovation and product development. He holds degrees from the London School of Economics and the University of Chicago.
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 Jerôme Maniongui
Head, Audit Department, Agence de Régulation des Postes et des Communications Électroniques (ARPCE), Republic of the Congo
Jérôme Maniongui is a recognized leader in the legal regulation of telecommunications, with over thirteen years of strategic experience in complex and international environments. After a significant tenure at EY, he joined the ARPCE, where he initially served as a legal expert before becoming Head of the Internal Audit Department. This progression reflects a leadership style grounded in rigor, institutional integrity, and a comprehensive vision of sector governance challenges. Leading regulatory audits, he oversees high-impact assignments focused on compliance, management of scarce resources, economic regulation, and the improvement of internal processes. Holding a General Executive MBA, he applies a modern managerial approach driven by performance, strategy, and organizational transformation. On the international stage, Jérôme represents African expertise within standardization bodies. As an official editor in ITU-T Study Group 3, he contributes to the development of global recommendations on regulatory accounting and economic models. He also actively participates in ITU-D activities, strengthening digital development and regulatory capacity in emerging countries. Through his leadership and technical influence, he stands out as a credible and respected voice in telecom regulation in Africa and beyond.
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 Hilda Mutseyekwa
Rapporteur Q9/3, Zimbabwe
Mrs Hilda Mutseyekwa is the Director Economics, Tariffs and Competition within the Postal and Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ). She holds a Bsc Economics Honours Degree (1987) and a Master’s in Business Administration (2005) from the University Zimbabwe. She joined POTRAZ in 2001 and has pioneered all aspects of Economic Regulation within POTRAZ. Her greatest passion is problem solving using facts and figures for the betterment of life. Prior to that, she spent a good thirteen years as a Research Economist within Government, which was punctuated by a diplomatic stint in New, Delhi, India (1994- 1999). She is currently the Vice Chair of ITU-T SG3 Africa Region, the Chair of ITU-T SG3 Working Party 2: General economic and policy factors related to provision and cost of ICT services and the Rapporteur Q9/3: Study the economic and regulatory aspects of the Internet, convergence, OTTs, and international telecommunication networks and services, at both regional and internationallevels, with explicit consideration on the impact on developing countries.
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 John Omo
Secretary General, African Telecommunication Union (ATU)
Mr. John
Omo is the Secretary-General of the African Telecommunications Union (ATU), the African Union’s specialised agency for telecommunications and ICT development in Africa. In office since January 2019 and re-elected for a second term in July 2022, he leads ATU’s work to build African consensus on ICT policy, regulations and operations and to coordinate Africa’s participation in international ICT fora. A lawyer with 33 years’ experience, he previously served as Head of Legal at the Communications Authority of Kenya, Kenya’s ICT Regulator, and as Senior State Counsel at Kenya’s Attorney-General’s Chambers. He holds an LL.B Degree(Univ. of Nairobi), an LL.M (Univ. of Sheffield), a Diploma from Kenya School of Law and a Diploma in Human Rights from the UN/ILO Centre, Turin. John has received Telecom Review Global Merit Leader Awards in 2022 and 2025 from TELECOM REVIEW, Dubai, UAE.”
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 Gifty Selby
Ghana Signal Bureau (NSB), Ghana
Gifty Selby holds the position of
Director of Core Network at National Signals Bureau in Ghana
She has over 20years working in telecommunications, security and intelligence workspace
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Fargani Tambeayuk
Director of Public Policy, Meta Platforms, Inc.
Fargani is a Director of Public Policy at Meta, where he works on ensuring access to technologies like AI across Africa. His mission is to harness technology as a powerful tool for progress, creating meaningful opportunities and innovative solutions for African communities.
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 Benoit Vivier
Public Affairs Director, EENA
Benoit Vivier works as EENA’s Public Affairs Director. For over 10 years, his mission for EENA has focussed on liaising with the institutions of the European Union as well as other stakeholders, following legislative developments around emergency communications in Europe and promoting at European level best practices in public warning. Benoît has graduated in International Relations from Sciences Po Lille and European Political and Administrative Studies from the College of Europe. |
 Jie Zhang
Head, International Numbering Resources Division, TSB, ITU
Jie Zhang is Head of the International Numbering Resources Division in the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB) of the ITU. She previously served as a Professorial Senior Engineer at the China Academy of Telecommunication Research, now the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), where she worked on NNAI and Intelligent Networks. She joined the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau in 2013 as Adviser to ITU-T Study Group 2 and was appointed Head of the International Numbering Resources Division in 2025
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