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Tomas Lamanauskas is Deputy Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union, elected at the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference of 2022, and taking up duties as of January 2023. His 25 years of experience spans across sectors of telecoms and digital policy, regulation and strategy, stemming from executive level positions in agencies, companies, and organizations across Europe, the Middle East, the Caribbean and the Pacific region.

As Deputy Secretary-General of ITU, Tomas focuses on the financial sustainability and operational excellence of the organization. He also works to raise the digital industry’s ambition in fighting the climate crisis through the Green Digital Action initiative and promotes investments into the digital infrastructure as well as digital resilience through the Digital Infrastructure Investment Initiative and other efforts. Additionally, Tomas contributes to the global efforts to harness the opportunities and mitigate challenges of new technologies in particular Artificial Intelligence, including through his role as a co-chair of the United Nations Inter-Agency Working Group on AI. He is also playing a key role in ensuring ITU’s support to other UN-wide development and governance efforts, including through the World Summit of the Information Society process and membership at the Operational Steering Committee of the UN Joint SDG Fund.

Tomas holds Master’s Degrees in Public Administration (Harvard), Leadership and Strategy (London Business School), Telecommunications Regulation and Policy (The University of the West Indies) and Law (Vilnius University).

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 With more than twenty years of experience in the area of implementing high-level trade, environment, telecommunication, and information technology agreements in the Arab region. Mr. Wali is currently the Head of the ICT Development in the Arab League in Cairo.  Throughout his career, he has amassed a diverse portfolio of professional experiences, working with multilateral organisations in the Arab world, which has led him to become a regional expert in his areas of specialisation.  He is managing the following duties as the Technical Secretariat for the Permanent Arab Committee for Communication and Information Technology, the Technical Secretariat for the Permanent Arab Committee for Posts, and the Technical Secretariat for the Executive Committee and the Arab Council of Ministers responsible for Communication and Information Technology. Moreover, he assists Arab countries at the country’s capital level in enhancing their cooperation with the International Telecommunication Union and the Universal Postal Union.

 Fabrizia Benini is Head of the Future Internet Unit within the Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology at the European Commission. A lawyer by training, she joined the European Commission in 1992 and has since worked in the Internal Market, Competition, Maritime Affairs, and Digital departments, as well as in the cabinet office of the Vice-President for Industrial Relations. Her main responsibilities have included Citizenship of the Union, the Safe Harbor negotiations on data protection with the US, antitrust and mergers in the maritime transport sector and the pathway to decarbonization of heavy industries. Before joining the NGI Unit, she spearheaded efforts focused on the Recovery and Resilience Facility in the digital domain, economic analysis, and digital skills. Today, she leads the unit dedicated to advancing cutting-edge technologies such as Blockchain, open-source digital commons and Internet Governance, positioning the EU as a leading voice in key international forums.

Sally Wentworth is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Internet Society and Internet Society Foundation, leading both organizations in building and protecting an Internet for everyone. Passionate about the Internet as a resource for social and economic development, and with her people-first approach, she engages with the community on critical issues affecting the Internet and showcases the life-changing impact the organizations' work has on people across the world.

Since joining the Internet Society in 2009, Sally has focused on building coalitions among developed and developing countries and Internet stakeholders and leading the Internet Society's work in the development, engagement, and promotion of global public policies that support and enable a globally connected Internet.

Sally came to the Internet Society from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where she served as Assistant Director for Telecommunications and Information Policy from 2007-2009. There, she represented and advised senior officials and built multi-agency consensus around complex technical and regulatory Internet policies. She had responsibility for the government-wide coordination and implementation of policies related to Internet governance, cybersecurity, telecommunications policy, intellectual property and patent reform, privacy, and other information technology policies.

From 1999-2007, Sally served as the Economic Bureau Foreign Affairs Officer at the U.S. Department of State. As a policy advisor on Internet policy issues, she organized international public diplomacy campaigns and advised senior diplomats on complex negotiations on technology issues. She represented the U.S. on a wide range of foreign policy and technology issues in dozens of international negotiations, including for the UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

Sally joined the State Department in 1999 as a Presidential Management Fellow.

Mr. Mohamed Shamroukh is a distinguished telecommunications executive with over 20 years of experience in technical, operational, strategic, and financial management. Currently serving as the Executive President of the National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (NTRA) in Egypt, he oversees national telecommunications policies and regulatory compliance, leading initiatives to improve the resilience and integrity of telecommunications infrastructure. Previously, Mr. Shamroukh held the position of Senior Vice President for Financial Affairs and Chief Financial Officer at Telecom Egypt, where he managed the company's investment portfolio, procurement, and supply chain operations, and played a key role in business decision-making for new commercial products. His tenure at Telecom Egypt also included roles as Director of Corporate Strategy and General Manager of Operations, where he developed corporate strategies, managed customer service processes, and handled various network engineering tasks. Mr. Shamroukh holds an EMBA from IESE Business School and a Bachelor's Degree in Electronic Engineering and Electrical Telecommunications from Cairo University. He is fluent in Arabic and English and brings a wealth of expertise in strategic planning, financial management, regulatory compliance, and telecommunications infrastructure.

Anne-Rachel Inné is an Internet and digital transformation veteran and established community giver. She is the Director General of the National Information Society Agency (ANSI in French), whose mission is to design, supervise, coordinate and evaluate all actions relating to the development of IT and New Information Technologies in the public and semi-public sectors at both national and regional levels.

Anne-Rachel has a rare combination of skills and strategic vision, having been an entrepreneur and builder of projects using ICTs in the 90s in Africa, as well as national policies about the Internet in most African countries. She also contributed to building up ICANN, the organization in the Los Angeles office where she worked for 12 years in several decision-making positions. She worked for two Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) as the COO of AFRINIC and the Senior VP Government Affairs at ARIN. Her last job before joining ANSI was at the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) where she was serving as Regional Director for Africa, liaison to the African Union and UNECA, working towards achieving the ITU’s commitment to connecting the region and to maintain direct contact with national authorities, regional telecommunication organizations and other key stakeholders.

She was featured as ICT Expert in the ILO/IOM book for the AUC in 2011: African Women at the Service of the Union and a recipient of several awards for her demonstrated immense commitment and continued engagement with African communities.

She is the Chair or member of the Board of several NGOs that work in Digital Skills, Diplomacy in the digital age, African languages and ICTs and is the initiator/participant to several other initiatives around education and Internet/ICTs for Africa, by Africans. She is the Regional Lead at the Global Initiative for Digital Empowerment Global Initiative for Digital Empowerment (https://thegide.org)

Zdravko Jukić is an electrical engineer currently working at HAKOM, the Croatian national regulator for electronic communications, postal and railways services markets. Zdravko holds a post-graduate degree in regulation from the University of Zagreb. Before joining HAKOM, Zdravko worked for 18 years at a major telecom vendor in Croatia, Sweden, and Germany. He was representing the vendor in key standardisation forums, such as 3GPP, OMA, and TM Forum, and held various positions, ranging from Software Developer and Tester to Senior Systems Manager. From 2013 to 2018, Zdravko served as the Council Member of HAKOM. The Croatian parliament appoints Council members for a five-year term. During the implementation of the 5G Toolbox, he chaired the 5G Security Working Group of the National Cyber Security Council in Croatia. Zdravko represents Croatia in the NIS Cooperation Group, specifically in the 5G/Telecom Work Stream. He is also a deputy member of the ENISA Board, representing Croatia. As of 1 January 2023, Zdravko is co-chairing the BEREC Cybersecurity Working Group.

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