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Cosmas Zavazava took office as Director of the​ Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT) at the International Te​lecommunication Union (ITU) on 1 January 2023.

With more than 30 years in telecommunications, including over 20 years in ITU’s Development Sector, Dr Zavazava has promoted and implemented impactful information and communication technology projects around the world.

Prior to his election as BDT Director, he served as ITU’s Chief of Partnerships for Digital Development , overseeing development-related projects, strategic partnerships, and resource mobilization between 2019 and 2022, while launching new initiatives that have boosted the engagement of industry, private-sector and academia members in ITU’s work.

Previously, as ITU’s Chief of Projects and Initiatives, he oversaw development projects focused on gender, youth, and people with special needs, along with capacity building, emergency telecommunications, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and e-waste management.

Petros Galides is the Deputy Commissioner of the Cyprus Regulatory Authority for Electronic Communications and Postal Services and the Digital Security Authority. He also serves as the EMERG Chair for 2024.

He holds a B.Sc. in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science and an MBA from the London Business School. Petros has extensive experience in the postal, electronic communications, and cybersecurity regulation sectors, as well as in both the service and manufacturing sectors. He has served on several company boards, performed consulting work in Cyprus and the UK, co-authored pioneering published papers, and held key positions in private, public, and international companies before being appointed Deputy Commissioner in 2013.

Slaviša Antić holds the title of Professional Master – Specialist in Economic Sciences. He has over 25 years of professional experience gained at the Public Enterprise for PTT Traffic “Serbia” and “Telekom Srbija AD,” where he held managerial positions for more than 15 years.

For eight years, he served as Assistant Director of the Office for IT and eGovernment, in charge of General Affairs, Finance, and HR, where his responsibilities included communication with telecom operators and monitoring projects such as the construction of the State Data Center and the Innovation District.

At Telekom Srbija, he managed departments responsible for business clients, investment construction, and digital content sales, overseeing cooperation with state institutions, public enterprises, and major investors, as well as the development of ICT infrastructure and mobile payment services (mPayment, mParking, mMembership, mReceipt, video streaming).

By decree of the President of the Republic of Serbia, he was awarded the Order of Labour. He is married, a proud father of two daughters and one son, and speaks English.

 

Dr Milan B. Radulović was born in Nikšić, Montenegro. He received his B.Sc. (study program: Electronics) and M.Sc. (study program: Robotics and Artificial Intelligence) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Montenegro, Montenegro. He received his Ph.D. (research field: Computer Architecture) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Belgrade, Serbia.

He was previously with the University of Montenegro, for over a decade where he was involved both in teaching process and many research and development projects (robotics and artificial intelligence, electronics, telecommunications, computer networks, software development, database, and real-time control systems) at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and University Computer Centre. Also, he was with the University Mediterranean, Montenegro, as a part-time assistant at the Faculty of Information Technology and Faculty of Economics and Business.

He was with Crnogorski Telekom A.D. (member of Deutsche Telekom Group) and Ericsson AB Stockholm Montenegro, for almost two decades, working as RAN/CORE engineer and Voice CORE team leader, respectively. He was involved in operation and maintenance, and development of radio and switching systems for the fixed and mobile network for two national operators, Crnogorski Telekom and m:tel.

He was included in several research projects as Visiting Research Fellow at the Universities abroad such as University of Warwick (UK), University of Granada (Spain), University of Siena (Italy), and EPFL (Switzerland). His current research interests are mainly in electronics, telecommunications, robotics and artificial intelligence, computer architecture (especially chip multiprocessor systems with thread-level speculation support), coherence and speculation protocols, transactional memory, compilers, parallel programming, and real-time system control. In these areas, he published papers in international scientific journals, books, and proceedings of international and domestic conferences. He is the member of HiPEAC (European Network of Excellence on High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation) group.

For the results achieved during his education, work career and scientific research activities, he received several awards from educational institutions, then, from the Municipality of Nikšić, and from the companies he worked with, as well as from domestic and international scientific research institutions and organizations.

On April 18, 2024, he was appointed President of the Council of the Agency for Electronic Communications and Postal Services.

On October 2 and 3, 2025, he was appointed as BEREC Vice-Chair 2026 and IRG Vice-Chair 2026, respectively

He has active knowledge of English, Italian and Spanish, and passive from German and Greek languages.

Ambassador Janis Karklins joined ICANN as Head of Government and IGO Engagement in October 2025 after a long and distinguished career in the Latvian diplomatic service that spanned three decades. Among his notable achievements, Janis served as Latvian Permanent Representative to the United Nations at Geneva, Permanent Representative of Latvia to the Council of Europe, and Latvian Ambassador to France, Andorra, Monaco, and UNESCO. Janis also served as the Assistant Director General of Communication and Information of UNESCO and was founding Director of the NATO Center of Excellence for Strategic Communications.

Janis holds an engineering degree from the Riga Technical University and attended an Executive Education Program for Eastern European diplomats at the Hoover Institute at Stanford University.