Mr Rosa received his degree in physics in 1974 in Rome, Italy, and joined the R&D branch of the Italian Ministry of Communication working on optical fibers transmission networks, in national and international standards and leading quality control inspection teams for international submarine telecommunication projects.
He was head of national delegations for standardization and research studies performed in IEC, ITU, ETSI, CECC, COST and represented the Italian Ministry of Communications in various international institutions including the European Commission task force for the G7 pilot projects on the Information Society.
Paolo was appointed as expert and senior advisor by the Italian Foreign Office, the UNDP and ITU for telecommunication projects in various developing countries worldwide.
In 1997 he joined the ITU-T secretariat in Geneva as Counselor responsible for Study Groups 6 (Outside plant), and SG 15 (Optical and other transport networks) and representing ITU in various events. Since November 2004 he was the Head of the Workshops and Promotion Division of the ITU Standardization Sector, organizing events and promoting new ITU-T activities in developing countries, universities and regional and international organizations. In 2011 he acted for six months as Regional Director for the Americas and Caribbean Region, supporting activities of ITU and of the ITU Development Sector in the region.
He has been the originator of various activities in ITU and among them the success activities of the ITU-T Academia series of conferences “Kaleidoscope” and of the ITU Conformity and Interoperability programme that resulted in a huge participation by the membership and in Resolutions at all the maxium levels of ITU. He is deeply involved in the elaboration, preparation, refining, implementation and in the continuation of the ITU conformity and interoperability programme worldwide.
He is author of several papers published in international technical magazines and speaker and lecturer in universities, international conferences, seminars and workshops.
He retired from ITU in March 2013.
