She first joined the public sector in 2005. She was first with the National Authority of Science and Technology (and now it is known as Ministry of Science and Technology).

Mr. Fishman is currently President of Pearlfisher International, a telecommunication standardization consulting company.  His previous work experience with Bell Laboratories, AT&T, Lucent and Alcatel-Lucent includes digital transmission, system engineering, optical fiber, economic studies, communication satellite services, regulatory filings, marketing and technical standardization.  

He has participated in domestic and international standards bodies since 1984, including chairing the ITU-T Telecommunication Standardization Advisory Group (TSAG) and membership in World Standards Cooperation comprising top management of ISO, IEC and ITU-T. In 2006, Mr. Fishman created the TSAG Young Delegates Group to facilitate the effective participation and training of new participants, mostly from developing countries, to the ITU-T.   He has presented numerous seminars and workshops on capacity building for international standardization.

Mr. Fishman has served on the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) International Policy Committee, ANSI Executive Standards Council and ANSI Patent Group, and has participated on ANSI delegations to the Pacific Area Standards Congress and the ISO General Assembly.  Mr. Fishman is a founding member and currently Vicechair of the US ITU Association (USITUA).

Kihun Kim received his M.S degree in telecommunication policy from Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea. Since 2001, he has been in charge of a national R&D project of fostering International standardization expert, a project of bridging standardization gap for developing countries, a standardization consultation program for developing countries.

He has been also in charge of cooperation with global and regional standards organizations, coordination of various international standardization meetings, such as APT Standardization Forum, China-Japan-Korea standards collaboration meeting, Global Standards Collaboration meetings, etc.

He was rapporteur of accessibility and usability working group of APT Standardization Forum (ASTAP) and has participated in APT ASTAP, APT Management Committee, ITU Plenipotentiary Conference, ITU-T WTSA, etc as a national delegation.

Colin Langtry is the Chief of the Radiocommunication Study Groups Department (SGD) in the International Telecommunication Union. SGD Counsellors and administrative assistants provide the Radiocommunication Bureau support for Radiocommunication Assembly and Study Group activities, including Working Parties and Task Groups.

ITU-R Study Group activities address the full range of radiocommunication services and focus on the following topics:
• efficient management and use of the spectrum/orbit resource by space and terrestrial services;
• global standardization of the characteristics and performance of radio systems;
• recommended practices for the operation of radio stations;
• radiocommunication aspects of distress and safety matters.

ITU-R Study Groups also carry out preparatory studies for World and Regional
Radiocommunication Conferences.

Mr. Langtry’s prior experience includes working as the Counsellor for ITU-R Study Groups 5 and 8 supporting their studies on amateur, fixed, mobile and radiodetermination services, responsibility for the Text Editing and Publications Division of the ITU Radiocommunication Bureau and, before joining the ITU, managing the spectrum planning activities in the Australian spectrum management agency.

Chae Sub LEE has been working in the telecoms standardisation field for over 20 years. He has been involved in ITU-T standards development for the ISDN, GII, IP-based networks, NGN and IPTV. He served ITU-T activity as a vice-chairman of SG13 from 2001 till 2008. He shared his role as a Vice-Chairman of ITU-T IPTV Focus Group since July 2006 and as a Chairman of NGN Focus Group from June 2004 till November 2005.

He is now Chairman of ITU-T SG 13 which is a lead group of standard development on NGN, IPTV, USN/RFID, ITS, Ubiquitous Networking, FMC, Future Networks and Cloud Computing for the study period 2009 ~ 2012.

Vijay received his first degree in Computer Science with Electronic Engineering from University College London, UK and his Masters degree in Information Technology from Imperial College, Science and Technology, UK. He is also the holder of an MBA from Cranfield School of Management in UK.

In June 2010 he joined the ITU-T Policy and Technology Watch Division in Geneva where he is responsible for the implementation of projects under Bridging the Standardization Gap programme and undertaking research on emerging ICT standardization activities for production of Technology Watch reports. He has already published two such reports on ICT as an enabler for Smart Water Management and the Optical World. He is also co-ordinating the work of the new Focus Group on Bridging the Gap: From Innovation to Standards which was set up this year.

Sameer Sharma, Senior Manager, ITU Regional Office, Asia-Pacific

He is currently Senior Advisor at ITU Regional office for Asia-Pacific, Bangkok, responsible for South Asia covering India, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, and Maldives where he is responsible for providing technical assistance to the countries for development of ICT including creating conducive policy and regulatory framework.

He has assisted several countries in migration from legacy networks to Next Generation Networks, designing Broadband Policy Framework for several countries including wireless broadband master plans for Vietnam Samoa Myanmar and Nepal.

He is also responsible for assisting countries on cyber security issues and developed framework for establishment of CIRT. Before joining the ITU, he held several senior positions such as Advisor, Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), Malaysia. He has also served as General Manager, Corporate Strategy in Celcom Malaysia Berhad.

He also worked as Director TRAI, India with extensive work on convergence and regulatory issues in Indian telecom sector. He also has extensive experience in television and radio broadcasting including satellite and microwave communications.

He actively contributed to Study Groups in ITU-T and ITU-D for several years. He was chair on Mobile Termination Rates in ITU-SG3 (2005-2007) and Chair on Economic aspects of IP Telephony 2001 and had undertaken field projects as ITU Expert.

He has been chair and panel speaker in several international conferences and has contributed to several international articles and publications including ITU-D publications. He has organized Sub regional Ministerial Forum, Regional Forums and International Training Programs and Heads of Regional Regulators Roundtables.

He has been awarded by ITU with a medal of excellence for performance in 2009.​