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Hugo Miguel

Hugo Dario Miguel, Under-Secretary of Planning, Information and Communication Technologies Secretariat.

Hugo is graduated in Systems, specialized in Telecommunications. Retired Officer of the Argentine Navy, oriented in Submarines. Also Specialist in Communications and Electronic War; and Operational Analyst Graduated from the Management Development Program of the IAE (Universidad Austral, Argentina).

More than 20 years of experience in the management of IT and Telecommunications projects at the National and International level, both in the Public and Private sector.

Professor of the University of Defense in different academic units. Postgraduate Professor in Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing at UBA (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina). Guest professor at UCA (Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina) and UADE (Universidad Argentina de la Empresa).

He currently serves as Under-Secretary of Planning in the Information and Communication Technologies Secretariat, dependent on the Modernization Government Secretariat.

He is Vice-Chairman of ITU-T Study Group 17: Security, of the International Telecommunication Union. He was also appointed Vice-Chairman of the Telecommunications Development Advisory Group (TDAG) during the las World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC-17).

He is Member of the GAC (Governmental Advisory Committee) of ICANN, the body that regulates domains and assignment of network addresses on the Internet. And Member of the G20 Drafting Committee in the area of Technology and Digital Economy.