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Amrita Choudhury is an active participant in digital and internet governance policy discussions in India and overseas. She is involved in capacity building, outreach and research. She is currently serving as Director of CCAOI, an organization representing the interests of internet users and non-users in India.
She is serving as a UN IGF MAG member and is currently one of the coordinators of the MAG Working Group on IGF Strategy and the Policy Network on AI Besides she also serves as the Chair of Asia Pacific regional IGF (AprIGF), Chair ICANN Asia Pacific regional AtLarge Organisation (APRALO), Chair IGF Support Association (IGFSA) and the President of ISOC Delhi Chapter. I

She is one of the founding members of the India School of Internet Governance (inSIG); coordination committee member of India IGF, advises and guides Youth India IGF and is a board member of Fact -Checking Network For more details on Amrita visit this link

Prof. Muchanga is a visionary executive with around three (3) decades of management experience in senior leadership positions. He has a Doctorate (PhD) in Computer Science from The Royal Institute of Technology (2006), a Degree in Electronic Engineering from Eduardo Mondlane University (1992), Degree Dissertation for the Technical University of Delft (1992), and attended the Advanced Executive Leadership at UNISA (1998). 
Before being appointed Minister, Prof. Muchanga was the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Mozambique Airline, S.A. (LAM), Non-Executive Board Member of the Standard Bank and Advisor to the Board of Directors of MCNet. Before that, Prof Muchanga was the Chairsperson of the Board of Directors of Mozambique Airports and Chairperson of the Mozambique Communications Regulatory Authority (INCM). 
Prof. Muchanga also held the following positions: 
Member of the Board of Directors of the Mozambique Communications Regulatory Authority (INCM); 
Director General of the Mozambique Communications Regulatory Authority (INCM); 
Director General of the National Institute of Meteorology (INAM); 
Chair of the Executive Committee of the Communications Regulators Association of Southern Africa (CRASA) 
Chairman of the National Commission for Digital Television Migration. 
In these journey, Prof. Muchanga played key roles in transforming the communications regulatory body into an autonomous authority, coordinating regulatory issues in telecommunications, postal and digital services and implementing large-scale digital and ICT infrastructure projects. 
 

Since late 2022, I serve the Brazilian Republic as a Commissioner at the Brazilian National Communications Agency - Anatel (which is analogous to the US Federal Communications Commission). My term will last until the end of 2027.

In that matter, I have been assigned by my peers at the Director Council of Anatel, as the speaker of the Agency for debating both the improvement of the ESG Agenda in the communications sector and, also, as the chairman of Infrastructure Committee.

Similarly, during my term, I have been assigned as the President of the Center for Higher Studies in Digital Communication and Technological Innovation at the Brazilian National Telecommunications Agency - CEADI/ANATEL, where we conduct projects and initiatives, in cooperation with several Brazilian universities, which are related to artificial intelligence, cyber security, dissemination of Anatel's accumulated experience with other Portuguese-speaking countries (mostly located in Africa), among others.

Another project worth mentioning is related to the construction of info ways in the Amazon basin, which aims to expand connectivity for the populations in this area, where a large part of them are in a vulnerable situation, such as indigenous and backcountry people living in its farest reaches.

Mr. Kamel SAADAOUI is the President of the Telecom Regulator of Tunisia (INTT) since January 2025. 
He had several leading positions such as the Chief of Cabinet of the ICT Minister, Director General of the National Center of Informatics and CEO of the Tunisian Internet Agency. 
Mr. Saadaoui holds a Master’s degree in computer science from Michigan State University, 1990. 
 

 Valeriu Ștefan ZGONEA has taken the position of president of ANCOM starting 11 May 2023 for a 6 year-term. Mr. Zgonea has activated within the National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics (ICI Bucharest) during 2018-2023 and has held four mandates of deputy in the Chamber of Deputies of the Romanian Parliament between 2000-2016. In the 2000-2004 parliamentary term, he was a member of the Committee for Information Technologies and Communications, while from 2006 to 2016 he held the posts of quaestor and secretary of the Chamber of Deputies. Furthermore, Mr. Zgonea has been Vice-president of the Chamber of Deputies between 2010 and 2012, then President of the Chamber of Deputies in the 2012 – 2016 parliamentary term. Valeriu Ștefan Zgonea graduated from the National Institute of Constructions and has various specializations in cyber diplomacy and infrastructures in the context of digitalization at education institutions such as European Security and Defence College, King’s College and George Marshall European Center for Security Studies and N.E.S.A.
 

Mr. Gill is the Chief Executive Officer of the International Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence Research Collaborative (I-DAIR) project, based at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva.  

A thought leader on digital technology, he brings to the position a deep knowledge of digital technologies coupled with a solid understanding of how to leverage the digital transformation responsibly and inclusively for progress on the Sustainable Development Goals. 

Previously, he was the Executive Director and Co-Lead of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation (2018-2019).  In addition to delivering the report of the High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation, Mr. Gill helped secure high-impact international consensus recommendations on regulating Artificial Intelligence (Al) in lethal autonomous weapon systems in 2017 and 2018, the draft Al ethics recommendation of UNESCO in 2020, and a new international platform on digital health and Al. 

Mr. Gill was India’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva (2016-2018).  He joined his country’s Diplomatic Service in 1992 and served in various capacities in disarmament and strategic technologies and international security affairs, with postings in Tehran and Colombo.  He was also a visiting scholar at Stanford University.

Ms. Bernadette Lewis was appointed Secretary-General of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation in August 2020. This was a historic appointment as she is the first female Secretary General in the 122-year history of the CTO.

Breaking the glass ceiling is not new to Ms. Lewis; she was also the first female Secretary-General of the Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU) since 2003 and is credited for making the CTU the foremost information and communication technology (ICT) inter-governmental institution in the Caribbean.

Ms. Lewis has a wealth of experience and knowledgeable in national and international ICT issues, having also worked in senior positions at the Caribbean Association of National Telecommunications Organisations (CANTO) and Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago when significant technological changes and convergence were transforming the industry.

Ms. Lewis is passionate about ensuring that the Commonwealth citizens and beyond have affordable access also benefit from effective use of ICT.