Ilyas Ahmed is the Chief Executive of the Communications Authority of Maldives (CAM). He has been with CAM since 2002, where he was involved heavily in many development initiatives of the country, including the liberalisation of the Maldives Telecommunications Sector. More recently, he has been instrumental in the development and implementation of the National Broadband Policy of Maldives 2014-2018.

He has also worked for the national telecommunications company Dhiraagu, where he was a key member of the team that introduced GSM mobile services to the country. Mr. Ahmed has over 20 years of experience in the field of communications.

Mr. Ahmed has attended and actively participated in a number of regional and international events and conferences on ICT. He has delivered key note addresses and chaired meeting sessions at many international conferences. He was also the Chairman of the Management Committee of the Asia Pacific Telecommunity (APT) from 2015 to 2018. Mr. Ahmed holds an MSc in Operational Telecommunications from Coventry University UK, and BEng in Information and Electronics from Curtin University of Australia.