A


Abdulhadi Aboualmal​
Head of Technology Standardization and Spectrum Management
ETISALAT
Ali Abbassense
Chief Technology Officer
EADN
Ministry of Post and Telecommunications, Algeria
Ulrich Ahle
CEO
Fiware Foundation
Nadine Alameh
CEO
Open Geospatial Consortium
Anwer Al-Dulaimi
Senior Manager of Emerging Technologies & Innovations
EXFO
Ahmed Ali Alsohaily
Group Head of Technology
Red Sea Global
Haider Alleg
General Partner, Allegory Capital
Nasser Saleh Al Marzouqi
Chairman of ITU-T Study Group 20
Telecommunication Regulatory Authority, UAE
H.E. Mr Hans-Joachim Almoslechner
Deputy Permanent Representative
Permanent Mission of Austria to the United Nations in New York
Muath AlRumayh
Director of International Negotiation
Communications, Space & Technology Commission (CST), Saudi Arabia
H.E. Mr Abdulaziz bin Mohamed Al-Wasel
Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the United Nations in New York
Marwan Alzarouni
Strategic Advisor, Dubai Department of Economy and Tourism
Giriraj Amarnath, Principal Researcher, Disaster Risk Management and Climate Resilience and Research Group Leader, IWMI
Erik Andersen
Independent Consultant
Andersen’s L-Service
Erik Andersson
National Expert to the EC
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Denis Andreev
ITU-T Study Group 11 Advisor, TSB
ITU
Constantinos Marios Angelopoulos​
Associate Professor
Bournemouth University
Victor Anton
Founder and CEO
Wildlife.ai
Leonidas Anthopoulos
Professor
University of Thessaly
Non Arkaraprasertkul
Senior Expert in Smart City Promotion, Thailand’s Digital Economy Promotion Agency
Kazuyuki Ashimura
Project Professor and W3C Web of Things Team Contact​
Keio University
Giacomo Assenza
Cybersecurity Research Officer
ITU

B


Bryn Balcombe
Autonomy Systems and Regulatory Expert
Oxbotica
Rodrigo Ruiz Ballesteros
Coordinador de Innovación del Municipio de Querétaro, Mexico
Natalia Bayona
Executive Director, UNWTO
Soumaya Ben Dhaou
Research Coordinator
UNU
Pernilla Bergmark
Principal Researcher ICT Sustainability Impacts
Ericsson
Dominique Berod
Head, Earth System Monitoring Division
WMO
Alberto Bernal
Director Territorios Phygital
Indra Minsait
Ahmad Bhinder
Director of Policy Innovation
Digital Cooperation Organization
Jiayu Bi
Q3/20 Associate Rapporteur, Editor, ITU-T Study Group 20
China Telecommunications Corporation
Fabio Bigi
Expert, Advisor for the Ministry
Ministry of Enterprise and Made in Italy
Jon Black
CEO y Fundador, Blackbot
Bill de Blasio
former Mayor of NYC
Apoorva Bose
G20 Programme Coordinator India, UNCCDI
Sebastian Bosse
Head of Interactive & Cognitive Systems Group
Fraunhofer HHI
Alexandre Bosshard
Coordinator and Project Manager
City of Pully
Anna Brekine
Project Manager
Mandat International
Martin Brynskov
Chair
Open & Agile Smart Cities
Cristina Bueti
Counsellor, ITU​-T Study Group 20
ITU

C


Wendy Teresa Goico Campagna
Permanent Mission of the Dominican Republic to the United Nations Office in Geneva, Switzerland; Vice-chairman, United for Smart Sustainable Cities Initiative (U4SSC)
Simão Campos
Counsellor, ITU-T SG16 and ITU/WHO FG-AI4H​
ITU
Jean Manuel
Jean Manuel Canet
Senior Manager, Climate and Biodiversity, Orange Group
Héctor Ma​rio Carril
Vicepresidente de la Comisión de Estudio 20
Unión Internacional de Telecomunicaciones
Marco Carugi
Q2/20 Rapporteur and Mentor of ITU-T SG20
Huawei Research Europe
Inga Caesar
Key Account Manager and Head of Health
Citibeats
Sandra Carvão
Chief of Tourism Market Intelligence and Competitiveness
UNWTO
Manuel Barreiro Castañeda
CEO & Founder, Aston Group; Vice-Chair of ITU Focus Group on metaverse
Yuguang Chang
Senior Director, FiberHome Telecommunication Technologies Co., Ltd.
CICT
Amitabh Chaudhry
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Axis Bank
Cameroon Chell
Co-Founder, Draganfly Innovations, United States
Natasha Crampton
VP, Chief Responsible AI Officer
Microsoft
Cédric Crettaz
Lead Researcher in ICT
Mandat International
Osvaldo I. Larancuent Cueto
Presidente, Capítulo Internet Society de la República Dominicana
Wayne Cutler
Technical Director-Legacy Networks
GSMA

D


David Dao
Co-Founder
GainForest
Lisa D’Ambrosi
Research Scientist,
MIT AgeLab
Massachusetts Institute of Technology ​
John Davies
Thematic Group Co-Leader, U4SSC
Strategy 4 Technology Limited
 Gauri Deoras
Consultant, GD Consulting & Coaching
Katrina Destrée 
Director of Privacy
KUMA LLC
Joe Dignan
Head of Government Insights,
International Data Corporation (IDC) EMEA
Jörg Dörr
Professor for Digital Farming
Technical University of Kaiserslautern
Aminata Drame
Program Director Infrastructures and Network in Africa, Orange GroupAssociate Researcher
Wuhan University​
Wenying Du
Associate Researcher
Wuhan University​

E


Muslim Elkotob
Principal Solutions Architect
Vodafone
AbdEl-Monem El-Sharkawy
Chairman, National Academy of Information Technology for Persons with Disabilities, Egypt
Soha Elzalabany
Founder, Tomooh Foundation; Lecturer at The American University, Egypt
Tim Engelhardt
Human Rights Officer, OHCHR
Arthur Hrast Essenfelder
Project Officer, European Commission

F


Yip Fai
AI Ethics Researcher
Princeton University
Javier Farfan
Postdoctoral researcher,
Åbo Akademi University, Finland
Ramy Ahmed Fathy
Director, Digital Services Planning and Risk Assessment
National Telecom Regulatory Authority, Egypt
Ernesto Faubel-Cubells
Head of Smart City Office, Municipality of Valencia, Spain
Nathalie Feingold
Director and Strategic Advisor
NPBA
R. Andres Ferreyra
Data Asset Manager
Syngenta Digital
Ramón Ferri
Director of Institutional Relations
SEGITTUR
Radia Funna
Founder and Principal
Build n Blaze, LLC

G


Charles Gahungu
General Manager of ICT Regulation
RURA
Emilar Gandhi
Head of Stakeholder Engagement, Meta

Paolo Gemma
Senior Specialist for Europe
Huawei
Okan Geray
Strategic Planning Advisor
Digital Dubai
Gustavo Giannattasio
Presidente del Capítulo Uruguay
IEEE
Bernard Gindroz
Chair, ISO/TC 268: Sustainable cities and communities
ISO
David Giner
Project Coordinator
Instituto Valenciano de Tecnologías Turísticas
Gregory Giuliani
Head of the Digital Earth Unit and Swiss Data Cube Project Leader
GRID-Geneva
Daniel Goldscheider
Executive Director, OpenWallet Foundation
Sérgio Guerreiro
Senior Director, Knowledge Management & Innovation
Turismo de Portugal
Luis Nava Guerrero
Municipal President of Querétaro

H


Takashi Harada​
Marketing Engineer, IoT Platform Division
Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.​
Bugge Holm Hansen
Senior Futurist & Head of Innovation and Technology, Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
Amin Hasbini
Head of Research Center, Middle East, Turkey and Africa (META)
Kaspersky
Sarah Hayes
Climate Resilience Demonstrator Project Lead, National Digital Twin Programme
Centre for Digital Built Britain​
Shane He
Vice-Chair, ITU-T Study Group 20; Nokia
Roland van der Heijden
Program Manager Digital City, City of Rotterdam, The Netherland
Alejandro Herrera
Director Nacional de Telecomunicaciones, ASEP, Panamá​
Mark Hidson
Director on Sustainable Procurement
ICLEI
Peggy Hicks
Director, OHCHR

Anita Batamuliza Hodari
Senior officer in charge of e-waste Management
RURA
Kenneth Holmlund
Head of Space Systems and Utilization
WMO

I


Maxim Interbrick
COO
Sparrow Analytics SA
Kenneth Irons
Chairman
AgriTech New Zealand

J


Dejan Jakovljevic
CIO and Director, Digitalization and Informatics Division​
FAO
Shazade Jameson
Author of the Report “AI & Cities”
Tilburg Law School
Bilel ​Jamoussi​​​​
Deputy Director, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU
Jaemin Jang
Senior Researcher
TTA
Marek Janovský
Diplomat, Permanent mission of the Czech Republic to the UN
Noor UL Owase Jeelani
Head of the Craniofacial Surgery Department, Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), United Kingdom
David Jensen
Coordinator, Digital Transformation Programme
UNEP
Xueqin Jia
Senior Engineer
China Unicom

K


Sebastian Kaebisch
Senior Key Expert
Siemens Technology
Shin-Gak Kang
Assistant Vice President
ETRI
Will Kennedy
Senior Programme Officer,
UN Officer for Partnerships
Kaoru Kenyoshi
Chair, SG11 Working Party 3; Senior innovation coordinator
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan
Yousef Khalili
Chief Commercial Officer, TONOMUS
Daewon Kim
Director of VC Dept.
Thinkware
Hyoung Jun Kim
Senior Vice-President, Intelligent Convergence Research Lab
ETRI
Hwirin Kim
Head of Hydrological and Water Resources Services Division, WMO
Mallory Knodel
CTO, Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT)
Barbara Kolm
Director
Austrian Economics Center​
Matej Kovačič
Expert
International Research Centre on Artificial Intelligence, Jožef Stefan Institute
Marianna Koval
Director Invest NYC SDG, NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business
Gregory Krieger
CEO & Co-founder, Kralys SA
Jorrit Kuipers
Founder and CTO
Green Dino BV
Sheetal Kumar
Consultant, Global Partners Digital
Sushil Kumar
Deputy​ Director General (IoT), Telecommunication Engineering Center, Department of Telecommunications
Ministry of Communication, Government of India​

L


Paul Lam
Director, Corporate Strategy & Development
TuSimple
Aare Laponin
Senior Consultant, GovConsult.org, Estonia
Gyu Myoung Lee
Professor
Liverpool John Moores University
Junseob Lee
Director, Intelligent Convergence Research Laboratory
ETRI
Junwook Lee
Research Fellow
AIBLab Inc.
Yong Jick Lee
President, Center for Accessible ICT, Korea
Johannes Lehmann
Head of Business Development Smart Farming
German Institute for Standardization
Robert Lewis-Lettington
Chief of the Urban Legislation Unit
UN-Habitat
Yizheng Li
Project Manager
China Mobile​
Yun Li
Director, Technical and Industry Standard Department
Tencent
Weng Marc Lim
Dean and Professor
Sunway University
Alena Lohrmann
Postdoctoral researcher for the Chair of Energy Systems Analysis,
ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Jürg Luterbacher
Chief Scientist, Director Science and Innovation
WMO
Noah Luo
Chair, ITU-T Study Group 16; Vice President, Standards and Industry Development at Huawei Technologies, Co., Ltd.

M


Ralf Ma
Chair IEEE Metaverse Standards Working Group
Christian Maasem
Partner, Head of Hyperconnectivity
Detecon Consulting
Giulio Maggiore
Technical & Vendor Management
Telecom Italia
Tania Marcos
Head of Smart Sustainable Cities
Spanish Association for Standardization (UNE)
Juan Pablo Martín
Project Manager
Auravant
Cristina Martinez
Deputy Head for Smart Technologies for Communities
European Commission
Sergio Martínez
Director Ejecutivo
Comisión de Regulación de Comunicaciones
Cristina Martinez Pinto
Founder and CEO
PIT Policy Lab
Yolanda Martinez
Senior Project Coordinator, GovStack Initiative, ITU
Laura Matter
Founder and CEO
PIT Policy Lab

Venkatesen (VIJAY) Mauree
Founder and CEO
PIT Policy Lab
Craig Meyer
Director of Special Projects and Innovation, Department of Communications and Digital Technologies, South Africa
Michael McCool
Principal Engineer
Intel Corporation
Drake Patrick Mirembe
Senior Consultant and CTO
Eight Tech Consults Limited
Patricia Morsch
Technical Officer, Healthy Aging
PAHO
Gustavo Mostaço
PhD Researcher
Escola Politécnica of the University of São Paulo
Sergio Mujica
Secretary-General
ISO
Cathy Mulligan
Professor and Director, DCentral Lab
Instituto Superior Técnico
Michael Mulquin
Chair, Smart Cities Systems Committee
IEC

N


Helen Nakiguli
Chair, ITU-T SG5 for the African Regional Group; Senior Officer Environment Management, Uganda Communications Commission
Leandro Navarro
Professor
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Md. Nasir
Senior Applied Research Scientist, Microsoft, United States
Luis Neves
CEO, Global Enabling Sustainability Initiative (GeSI)
H.E. Mr Nape Nnauye
Minister
Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Tanzania
Gabriel Nobis
Researcher, Fraunhofer HHI
Liv Marte Nordhaug
Chief Executive Officer, Digital Public Goods Alliance Secretariat
Vadim Nozdrin
Counsellor
ITU
Noelia Nuñez
Analista en la Dirección de Derechos Humanos, Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de la República Dominicana (MIREX)

O


Nick Oakeshott
Senior Policy Officer, UNHCR
Madan M. Oberoi
Executive Director of Technology and Innovation, INTERPOL
Seizo Onoe
Director, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau
ITU
Ian Oppermann
Chief Data Scientist, NSW Government, Australia
Javier Orozco-Messana
National expert seconded to the European Commission

P


Praveen G. Pai
Department of Cardiology, School of Medicine, Kochi
Victoria Papp
Smart City Consultant
ITU
Abhay Pareek
Lead, Fourth Industrial Revolution for Agriculture
World Economic Forum
Pierpaolo Palumbo
Bioengineer,University of Bologna, Italy
Jung Sook Park
Secretary General, WeGO
Juyoung Park
Principal Member of Engineering Staff
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
Luísa Amélia Paseto 
Intelligent Platform Coordinator Researcher
Maturity Model
Lizania Peréz ​Rodríqu​ez​
Secretaria Ejecutiva
COMTELCA
Balakrishna Pisupati
Head, Environmental Policy
UNEP Nairobi
Bartolomé Pujols
HDirector general, Oficina Gubernamental de
Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación (OGTIC)

Q


Qi Shuguang
Vice Chief Engineer,
China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT);
Vice Chair, ITU-T Study Group 5
Zhicheng Qu
Standardization Engineer
ZTE Corporation
Bastiaan Quast
Consultant
ITU
Mónica García Quesada
Project Officer
IWRA

R


Teppo Rantanen
Executive Director of Economic Policy, Competitiveness and Innovation
City of Tampere, Finland
Theofanis Raptis
Research Scientist
National Research Council, Italy
Anthony Rea​
Director of the Infrastructure Department
WMO
Nour Riad
Marketing, Communications and Engagement Manager, Fondation Genevoise pour l’Innovation Technologique (FONGIT)
Ana Riviere-Cinnamond
PAHO/WHO representative in Panama
PAHO
Moin Roberts-Islam
Technology Development Manager
Fashion Innovation Agency, London College of Fashion, UAL
Claudia Roessler​
Director
Microsoft Cloud
Long Rong
Vice-Group Leader, Digital Twin Group
China Mobile
Emily Royall
Smart Cities Administrator, City of San Antonio; U4SSC Vice-Chair

S


Ziqin Sang
Technical Director
China Information Communication Technologies Group
Arman Sargolzaei
Assistant Professor
University of South Florida
Jessika Weber Sabil
Professor, Digital Transformation in Cultural Tourism, Academy for Tourism of Breda University of Applied Sciences (NL)
Kartick Satyanarayan
Co-Founder and CEO Wildlife SOS
Enrico Scarrone
Chairman of the oneM2M Steering Committee
oneM2M
Sicong Shao
Research Assistant Professor
Arizona University
Sameer Shetty
Head of Digital Banking, Axis Bank
Taehyoung Shim​
Senior Researcher
ETRI​
Samridhi Shoor
Director, Meta asset research center
Peter Singer
Philosopher and the Ira W. DeCamp Professor ,Center for Human Values
Princeton University
Kshitij Sirohi
Doctoral Researcher
University of Freiburg
Esther Pan Sloane
Managing Director, Avenue Capital Group
John Smiciklas
President
JD Global Sustainability Associates Inc.
Warren Smith
Associate Director
CURSHAW
Robert Stefanski
Head of the Applied Climate Services Division
WMO
Yuka Sumi
Acting Unit Head, Ageing and Health
WHO
Deniz Susar
Governance and Public Administration Officer
UN DESA
András Szorényi
Senior Policy Advisor
Global Cities Hub

T


Clare Tattersall
CEO & Founder, Digital Fashion Week 
Varda Taneja
Vice President, Invest India
Karina Pérez Teruel
Profesora en la carrera Ingeniería de Software de Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC)
Nevine Tewfik
Vice-Chair, ITU-T Study Group 5
Massamba Thioye
Project Executive, UNFCCC Global Innovation Hub, UN Climate Change Secretariat
Gilles Thonet
Deputy to the General Secretary & CEO
IEC

Muralee Thummarukudy
Director, G20 Global Land Initiative
James Thurston
Vice President, Global Strategy and Development
G3ict
Pere Fuset i Torto​sa
Concejal de Agenda Digital y Administración Electrónica, Ajuntament de València
Pantelis Tzamalis
Research and Development Engineer
University of Patras
Sylvan
Sylvan Tran
Senor Security Architect, LSHD and Editor ITU-T SG 17 Q.10

U


Stefan Uhlenbrook
Director Hydrology, Water and Cryosphere
WMO
Remko Uijlenhoet
Professor, Water Resources Section, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Department of Water Management
TU Delft

V


Enrique Vega
Life course Unit Chief PAHO/WHO
Pramod Varma
CTO, EkStep Foundation

W


Bako Wakil
Director of Technical Standards and Network Integrity
Nigerian Communications Commission
Sasha Wallinger
Chief Marketing Officer, Innovation & Foresight Strategist & Founder, Blockchain Style Lab
Andreas Weber
Senior Expert
Federal Ministry of Finance​, Austria
Clara Wegenast
Expert on Digital Transformation, Office of the Chief Digital Officer, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Pontus Westerberg
Programme Officer
UN-Habitat
Roxana ​Widmer-Iliescu
Senior Coordinator, Digital Inclusion
ITU
Jim Wilson
Chief Technology Officer
AgGateway
Holly Wood
CEO & Founder HollyWoodLabs.io
Vitalija Gaucaite Wittich
Chief, Population Unit
UNECE
Dominique Würges
Director of Institutional Relations for Standardisation
Orange

X


Elena Xoplaki
Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany and Vice-Chair of FG-AI4NDM

Y


Toru Yamada
Vice chairman of ITU-T Study Group 20
NEC Corporation
Edlam Abera Yemeru
Chief, Knowledge and Innovation Branch, UN-Habitat

Nicholas You
Executive Director, Guangzhou Institute for Urban Innovation
Heung Youl Youm
Professor, Department of Information Security Engineering
Soonchunhyang University

Z


João Alexandre Moncaio Zanon
Telecommunication Engineer, Brazilian National Telecommunications Agency (ANATEL)
Christina Yan Zhang
CEO and Founder
The Metaverse Institute
Liangliang Zhang
ITU-T SG16 Q22 Associate rapporteurrse Institute
Soenke Ziesche
Independent Researcher 
Sébastien Ziegler
Director General
Mandat International
Steven Noamési Kofi Zikpi
Head of the Market Observatory and Tariff Control Service, Autorité de Régulation des Communications Electroniques et des Postes (ARCEP), Togo
Douglas Zytko
Associate Professor in the College of Innovation & Technology at University of Michigan-Flint

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