Abraão Balbino e Silva, born in Brasilia, Brazil. He is the Competition Superintendent of National Telecommunications Agency - Anatel. He is responsible for the Economic Regulation of the ICT sector in Brazil, including the competition policy, prices, costs and the monitoring of the economic issues involved. In ITU-T, he is Vice-Chair of the ITU-T SG3 and the WP2/3 Chairman, related to general economic and policy factors related to provision and cost of ICT services. He has several publications since 2004. In 2016 he published as a co-author the book "Broadband in Brazil: past, present and future". In 2011 it was the winner of the SEAE Award for Economic Regulation, with the text "Remuneration of Mobile Telephony Networks".

Before joining to Anatel, Abraão worked in the private sector as Project Manager in Huawei Technologies and as a Marketing Analyst in Vivo Celular. He is a Communication Network Engineer and Master in Regulation and Business Management from the University of Brasília – UnB.