Dr Jamil Chawki leads IT and cloud networks standardization Department at Orange, in charge of cloud computing, NFV and SDN standards and open source activities. Jamil is currently Chairman of the cloud computing Working Party in ITU-T Study Group 13 ‘Future Networks’, and was convenor of the Collaborative Teams between ITU-T and ISO/IEC JTC1 on cloud computing vocabulary and reference architecture. He is an active contributor to the cloud computing Blog of Orange Business Services and founding member of OpenDaylight Advisory Group (SDN open source project). Before this position, Jamil was a Deputy Director of Enterprise 2.0 research program working on Software as a Service marketplace architecture for France Telecom. In 2004 he was in charge of the first Fibre To The Home ‘FTTH’ Triple Play pilot project for Jordan Telecom. From 2000 to 2002, Jamil was Chairman and CEO of a telecom operator in Lebanon ‘Ogero Telecom’. His main responsibilities were to manage the network and Information System (OSS/BSS) restructuring and to supervise the implementation of the first Gigabit Ethernet network in the Middle East region. Prior to 2000 Jamil worked for 10 years as an R&D engineer and manager in the field of optical WDM and IP transport networks at France Telecom. He published numerous technical IEEE/IET papers and holds over 18 patents.
