Randol holds a First-Class LL.B degree from the University of Buckingham and a LL.M degree in International and Commercial Law with a specialization in World Trade. He is a Counsel and Attorney at law having been called to the New York Bar in 2004 and the Bahamas Bar in 2005. He is also a Chartered Corporate Secretary. Randol is a former Partner in GrahamThompson and Baycourt Chambers, leading Law Firms in The Bahamas, where his work covered the full spectrum of commercial practice with an emphasis on Medical Negligence litigation. He is the sitting Chairman of the Utilities Regulation & Competition Authority (URCA), an independent statutory body with regulatory authority and responsibility for the Electronic Communications and Energy Sectors of The Bahamas. Randol is a member of the adjunct faculty at the University of the Bahamas and is a Tutor at the Eugene Dupuch Law School. He is the Chief Legal Officer at Doctors Hospital Health System Limited.

Randol is married to Nolette Dorsett, nee Miller and they have three children, Randol Jr., Grayson and Ricardo. The Family worships regularly at Bahamas Harvest Church, where Randol serves as a Deacon.

The Special Adviser ensures delivery of the Secretary-General’s priorities on climate change, from enhanced nationally determined contributions, fossil fuel and coal phase-out, ensuring public and private finance shifts and the transitions necessary to shift the world’s energy, transportation, land and natural systems in alignment with the goals of the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals.

Before his appointment, Selwin Hart served as the Executive Director for the Caribbean region at the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB). He was previously the Ambassador to the United States and the Organization of American States for Barbados and Director of the Secretary-General’s Climate Change Support Team, leading the team’s delivery of the 2014 Climate Summit and the Secretary-General’s engagement in the process leading to the signing of the Paris Agreement on climate change.

Throughout his career, Mr. Hart has served in several climate action leadership positions, including as a Climate Adviser for the Caribbean Development Bank, Chief Climate Change Negotiator for Barbados, as well as the Coordinator and Lead Negotiator on Finance for the Alliance of Small Island Developing States, a coalition of 43 islands and low-lying coastal States in the Caribbean, Pacific, Africa, Indian Ocean and South China Sea. He was a member of the Kyoto Protocol Adaptation Fund Board from 2009 to 2010 and was elected by the United Nations General Assembly to serve as Vice-Chair of the Second Committee of the United Nations General Assembly (Economic and Financial) during its sixtieth Session.

Javier Juárez Mojica is Commissioner of the Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) since October 2016, when the Mexican Senate appointed him, and currently serves as the Acting President of the IFT1 since March 2022.

He began his professional career at the Federal Telecommunications Commission (Cofetel) in October 1999, where he participated in projects such as the implementation of number portability, the development of the Fundamental Technical Plan for Interconnection and Interoperability and the measurement of the quality of mobile networks.

From April 2015 to October 2016, he held the position of Head of the Regulatory Policy Unit of the Federal Telecommunications Institute.

He has participated and organized conferences and fora on interconnection, community and indigenous networks and social media, local loop unbundling, mobile virtual operators, Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, digital transformation, gender equity, among others.

He is an honorary member of the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST) of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), served as Vice-Chair of the Working Party on Communications Infrastructure and Services Policy (CISP) during the 2019-2021 term of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and was a member of the OECD Artificial Intelligence Expert Group (OEGAI).

 

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Mr. Ömer Abdullah Karagözoğlu has been the Chairman of the Board and President of the Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK) of the Republic of Türkiye since August 2018. He was re-appointed for a second term in August 2022 after completing his first 4-year term in this position.

He was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1975. He is an Electrical and Electronic Engineer graduated from Eastern Mediterranean University.
Mr. Karagözoğlu worked as a software engineer at Istanbul Water and Sewerage Administration (ISKI) of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IMM) from 2002 to 2004. Between 2004 and 2016, he held various managerial positions at BELBIM, a technology company of IMM.

He served as the Adviser to the Chairman and Board Member of BTK before his appointment.

Mr. John OMO is the Secretary-General of the African Telecommunications Union (ATU), the African Union’s specialized agency for telecommunications and ICTs’ development in Africa. He has held the position since January 2019 and was re-elected for a second 4-year term at the ATU Conference of Plenipotentiaries held in Algiers, Algeria in July 2022. He leads the continental body entrusted with building consensus within African countries in the development of ICT policies, systems and services, and also in coordinating African participation in international ICT fora.

Mr. Omo has 31 years of experience as a lawyer and has contributed immensely to the development of local and international policies, legislation, agreements, and treaties in all areas of public service life but mainly in the area of ICTs.

Prior to his election as the Secretary General of the Union, he worked with the Communications Authority of Kenya, Kenya’s ICT regulator, where he provided leadership over the Authority’s legal matters and strategies. Before that, he worked in the public/civil service.

He holds a Master of Law degree in International and Commercial law from the University of Sheffield – UK, a Bachelor of Law from the University of Nairobi – Kenya, and a Diploma in Human Rights Law from the UN Human Rights Centre, Geneva, and ILO Centre Turin among other professional courses.
Mr. Omo was recently awarded the Global Merit Leader Awards 2022 by Telecom Review during Telecom Review Leaders’ Summit in Dubai, UAE.

Val Risk is Vice President of Everbridge International Public Safety Solutions.

A leader with a passion for transformation strategies and solutions that unlock value and bring a fresh perspective to critical operations globally, Val has been working in IT and Digital for over 30 years.

UK 2018 Times Business In The Community Gender Champion and dedicated to challenging, collaborating and inspiring. In Everbridge, Val leads a global team committed to protecting millions of lives and livelihoods across continents, countries, and communities through the delivery of critical event management technology which underpins societal resilience.

A confessed non-conformist and game changer who believes in the power of making a difference in a digital and diverse world.

Dr Fakhruddin is an eminent hydro-meteorologist and climate risk assessor with 21 years’ global experience in hydro-meteorology and climate resilience projects. His key areas of expertise are integrated water resource management, hazards forecasting, climate and multi-hazard risk assessments and coastal community resilience.

Dr Fakhruddin recently joined GCF to provide leadership and oversight of the portfolio of investments in water resources for addressing climate change. Dr Fakhruddin has played a pivotal role in the design and implementation of weather, water and climate change adaptation projects for saving lives and livelihoods, while reducing property damage for more than 40 countries across Asia, the Caribbean, Africa and the Pacific.

Saurabh Basu is the solution architect of India’s Integrated CAP Compliant Early warning Platform for Disaster Management. He is working with C-DoT, Delhi, a premier telecom research centre of Government of India as a Senior Research Engineer after completion his Masters in Computer Science from National Institute of Technology , Durgapur in 2011. He is having versatile hands on experience in Software development, convergent networks and has great understanding of Telecom Software and Data communications & Geo-Intelligent technologies. He has been the key member of Geo-Intelligence team of C-DoT and currently he is co-coordinating the development activities M2M & IoT related products. Also acted as the solution architect for various Geo-Intelligence projects of C-DOT like Optical Network planning for NOFN, Fiber Fault Localization System and more recently geo-spatial service for online mobile tracking for the critical project having extreme national importance- CMS (Centralized Monitoring System), OneM2M Common Service Platform and Nodes.
He has published more than 10 international research papers along with multiple International and Indian Patents . He is one of the key member in Telecom Standardization for India through TSDSI and OneM2M- The international standardization Body on M2M.Recently his group received Aegis Graham Bell award for “Innovative Managed Services”” for 2016.He is also closely involved with Telecom Engineering Center (TEC) India in formulating the Service Requirement of Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) compliant Integrated Disaster Management systems of India. He is recently involved in coordinating with various organization with disaster portfolio to integrate them in CAP compliant Early Warning Platform and actively involved in technology trial at various part of the country.”