He is currently Senior Advisor at ITU Regional office for Asia-Pacific, Bangkok, responsible for South Asia covering India, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, and Maldives where he is responsible for providing technical assistance to the countries for ICT for development including creating conducive policy and regulatory framework.
He has assisted several countries in migration from legacy networks to Next Generation Networks, designing Broadband Policy Framework and wireless broadband master plans for over ten countries including countries from Pacific Islands and ASEAN.
He also actively works with UN Agencies including UNESCO on ICT for Education and WHO for e-health, UNICEF for School Connectivity. He was recently involved for development of policy framework on ICT for Persons with Disability for Afghanistan, Nepal and India. He organized several regional events and training courses for Asia-Pacific countries.
Before joining the ITU, he held several senior positions such as Advisor, Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), Malaysia. He also worked as Director TRAI, India with extensive work on convergence and regulatory issues in Indian telecom sector. He has been awarded by ITU with a medal of excellence for performance in 2009.
