Born on 19 January 1966 in Trabzon. Abdulkadir Uraloğlu received his Bachelor degree from the Civil Engineering Department of Karadeniz Technical University in 1988.

He started his career in the private sector as a site engineer in 1988. In 1989, Uraloğlu passed the exam of the General Directorate of Highways, he began working as a Survey Team Engineer at the Highways Erzurum 12th Regional Directorate. Between 1990 and 1998, he held the positions of Survey Team Engineer, Control Engineer and Chief of Control at the General Directorate of Highways’ Ankara 4th Regional Directorate, before being appointed Chief Construction Engineer at the Erzurum Regional Directorate in 1998.

Following his career in Erzurum, Uraloğlu was appointed as Deputy Director of the 10th Regional Directorate in Trabzon in 2003. Under the Emergency Action Plan launched at that time, he played an active role in the implementation of divided carriageways, asphalt-surfaced roads and motorway projects.

Uraloğlu began his duties as Director of the 6th Region in Kayseri in 2005 and was appointed Director of the 7th Region in Samsun in 2006. During his tenure, Uraloğlu contributed to the completion of the Black Sea Coastal Road. He served in Samsun for 6.5 years. He oversaw the commencement of construction works on the Tokat and Ünye Ring Roads, the Ordu Ring Road, the Amasya Ring Road and the Ordu-Topçam-Mesudiye Road, as well as the commissioning of the Samsun City Bypass and the Ordu-Ulubey Road.

In 2012, Uraloğlu was appointed to the Director of the General Directorate of Highways, İzmir 2nd Regional Directorate. During his six years in office in İzmir, he oversaw the completion of the Konak Tunnel and its access road, the Sabuncubeli Tunnel which reduced the journey time between İzmir and Manisa by 15 minutes and the commencement of construction on the Denizli Ring Road and the Honaz Tunnels.

Abdulkadir Uraloğlu was appointed to the post of Director General of the General Directorate of Highways by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on 23 July 2018. During his tenure as Director General, numerous key projects for Türkiye’s transport infrastructure have been completed, including the 1915 Çanakkale Bridge and the Malkara-Çanakkale Motorway, the Istanbul-Izmir Motorway, the Northern Marmara Motorway, the Menemen-Aliağa-Çandarlı Motorway, and the Ankara -Niğde Motorway, the Ahlat-Karahasan-Malazgirt Road and the Gelibolu-Eceabat Road, among many other key projects for Türkiye’s transport infrastructure, were brought into service.

Uraloğlu was appointed Minister of Transport and Infrastructure in the 67th Government by a presidential decree published on 3 June 2023.

He is married and has 3 children.

Doreen Bogdan-Martin took office as Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) on 1 January 2023.

Ms Bogdan-Martin has held leadership positions in the field of international telecommunications policy for over two decades, with a track-record of brokering innovative partnerships to expand digital inclusion and connectivity for everyone around the world. Following her historic election by ITU Member States in September 2022, she became the first woman ever to head the organization, which was first established in 1865 and became a UN specialized agency in 1947.

As ITU Secretary-General, she aims to drive innovative solutions, maximize ITU’s relevance for its 193 Member States, intensify global cooperation on connecting the unconnected, and strengthen the alignment of ITU’s programmes with the Sustainable Development Goals set out by the United Nations. Ms Bogdan-Martin has consistently emphasized the need for digital transformation to achieve economic prosperity, job creation, skills development, gender equality, and socio-economic inclusion, as well as to build circular economies, reduce climate impact, and save lives.

As Director of ITU’s Telecommunication Development Bureau for a four-year term starting in 2018, she helped put sustainable digital development at the forefront of international cooperation, including with the private sector and civil society. Among other ITU development priorities, she actively promoted the Partner2Connect initiative, which has mobilized unprecedented pledges of funding and support for meaningful Internet connectivity in developing countries.

She was previously instrumental in establishing the ITU-UNESCO Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development, serving as its Executive Director for more than a decade; contributed to the success of ITU’s Global Symposium for Regulators as the pre-eminent worldwide meeting for digital policy makers; and led ITU’s youth engagement strategy. She also pioneered ITU’s ongoing contribution to the EQUALS Global Partnership for Gender Equality in the Digital Age and initiated ITU’s collaboration with UNICEF on the Giga project to connect every school worldwide to the Internet.

Within ITU, she has promoted gender equality and encouraged bringing more women into the workforce, as well as helping women grow professionally and contributing to networks of women pursuing gender-balanced participation in conferences and policy making.

From 2008 until 2018, Ms Bogdan-Martin served as Chief of ITU’s Strategic Planning and Membership Department, overseeing corporate communications, external affairs, corporate strategy, and membership. Earlier, she headed the ITU Telecommunication Development Bureau’s Regulatory and Market Environment Division and Regulatory Reform Unit.

Before joining ITU in 1994, she worked at the U.S. Department of Commerce as a Telecommunication Policy Specialist in the National Telecommunication and Information Administration.

Ms Bogdan-Martin holds a Master’s in International Communications Policy from American University in Washington, DC, a post-graduate certification in Strategies for Leadership from the Institute for Management Development in Lausanne, Switzerland, and a certification in Accountability and Ethics from the UN Leaders Programme. She is also a qualified amateur radio operator.

Ms Bogdan-Martin is married with four children.

Born in İstanbul in the year 1977, Dr. Ömer Fatih Sayan received his Bachelor degree from the Electronics Engineering Department of Istanbul University Faculty of Engineering; Faculty of Law of Bahçeşehir University and Diplomatic Studies of Oxford University – St Antony’s School.

He completed his Master’s Degree at Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Communications Engineering Department of Technical University of Munich and at Biomedical Engineering Department of İstanbul University Institute of Science and Technology. He completed his PhD studies in the departments of Biomedical Engineering at Istanbul University, Private Law and Political Science & Public Administration at Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University.

He started his career in İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality in 1995 and worked in private companies in Türkiye, Germany and USA in the fields of chip manufacturing, cell phone design and R&D. He carried out studies in entrepreneurship by working under the initiative of Silicon Valley and he gave lectures on Information Law and New Trends in Informatics in many universities in Türkiye and Germany.

Dr. Sayan has given many lectures in conferences about research subjects and he has many articles published in scientific journals.

In addition to his academic work, he founded the Istanbul Türkiye Local Committee of the Electrical Engineering Students’ European Association (EESTEC). He is an IEEE member and a member of the EMO Ankara Branch. He served as president of the Turkish-German Friendship Delegation in Osnabrück, Germany, and the Türkische Gesprachskreis. He served as vice president and a member of the Audit Board of the Mimar Sinan Association. He served as the head of the Turkish delegation to the World Information Society Summit (WSIS). He also served as vice chair of the Independent Regulators Group (IRG). He was the coordinator of the Artificial Intelligence Türkiye Conference.

Having worked as advisor to the Prime Minister and chief advisor to the Prime Minister between the years of 2007 and 2014, he was appointed as the Member of the Board of the Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK) in January 2014. He worked as the Chairman of the Board & President of BTK between August 2015 and July 2018.

Dr. Sayan has been the Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure since 21 July 2018. He has been re-appointed for a second term on 22 June 2023

He speaks English, German and French. He is married and has 3 children.

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.

Cosmas Zavazava took office as Director of the​ Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT) at the International Te​lecommunication Union (ITU) on 1 January 2023.

With more than 30 years in telecommunications, including over 20 years in ITU’s Development Sector, Dr Zavazava has promoted and implemented impactful information and communication technology projects around the world.

Prior to his election as BDT Director, he served as ITU’s Chief of Partnerships for Digital Development , overseeing development-related projects, strategic partnerships, and resource mobilization between 2019 and 2022, while launching new initiatives that have boosted the engagement of industry, private-sector and academia members in ITU’s work.

Previously, as ITU’s Chief of Projects and Initiatives, he oversaw development projects focused on gender, youth, and people with special needs, along with capacity building, emergency telecommunications, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and e-waste management.