 Noah Luo
ITU-T SG16 Chairman | Vice President, Dept. of Standardization and Industry Development, Huawei
Noah Luo is ITU-T SG16 Chairman, a position for which he got elected in 2016 and he had been vice chairman of SG16 during the period of 2008-2016. Mr. Luo is a VP and senior standardization and industry development expert from Huawei with a wide range of responsibilities including standards, industry development, ecosystems and regulatory policies, etc. Mr. Luo has been and is active in various standards fields including multimedia technologies, services and applications, AI, digitization of vertical industries, cloud and edge computing and communications technologies. He is based in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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 Nasser Saleh Al Marzouqi
Chairman ITU-T Study Group 20: Internet of things (IoT) and smart cities and communities (SC&C)
Mr. Nasser Al Marzouqi is the Chairman of the ITU-T Study Group 20 “Internet of things (IoT) and smart cities and communities (SC&C)” which provides the specialized IoT standardization platform necessary for the convergence to rest on a cohesive set of international standards. The focus of the research conducted by ITU-T Study Group 20 will be on identifying and analyzing emerging applications and global solutions for IoT and smart cities, which will contribute to improving the interoperability of various IoT-based technologies, a key factor in ensuring end-user and market acceptance of IoT solutions. Nasser Al Marzouqi is currently working for the Telecommunication Regulatory Authority in the United Arab Emirates in the International Affairs Division. He also functions as the UAE representative to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and has been closely involved in the major ITU conferences and events. He received his Master’s degree in Telecommunication Engineering from Latrobe University in Australia. The TRA in the UAE has been at the forefront of pioneering developments in the field of ICT and in providing an optimal enabling environment in which the UAE’s ICT sector can flourish. Mr. Al Marzouqi is a firm proponent of converting existing systems to high-efficiency systems, helping to bridge the digital divide and to increase global communication and the transition to smart sustainable cities.
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 Abdulhadi AbouAlmal
ITU-T Study Group 20 Q6 Rapporteur
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 Abbie Barbir
ITU-T Study Group 17 Q10 Co-rapporteur | Senior Security Advisor, CVS Health, United States
Abbie Barbir serves as a Senior Security Advisor in the areas of identity management, mobile devices, and authentication at CVS Health Global Information Security. Barbir has extensive experience in identity and access management. He has worked with many standard organizations on developing next-generation authentication technologies. Currently, he represents CVS on the FIDO Board of Directors. Barbir holds a Ph.D. in computer engineering from Louisiana State University. In his more than 25 years in the software and security industry, he has been a Professor of Computer Science, an Application Developer, Data Compression and Encryption Inventor, Systems Architect, Security Architect, Engineering Manager, Consultant, Author and Inventor of numerous security algorithms and articles.
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 Herbert Bertine
ITU-T Study Group Former Chair
Herbert Bertine is a former chairman of ITU-T Study Group 17 and previously Study Group 7, having served from 1993 to 2008. He has been actively involved in the standards work of the ITU since 1975 and has held senior leadership positions for 28 years. He has devoted extensive efforts in facilitating cooperation with SDOs. Herb also has been active in other arenas dealing with ICT standards including ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 6 and ANSI. He was instrumental in developing the collaborative procedures between ITU-T and JTC 1 (reflected in Rec. A.23) and in establishing the cooperative procedures with the IETF. Herb retired in November 2007. He was Director, Standards at Lucent Technologies where he led Lucent's standards efforts worldwide. He joined Bell Laboratories in June 1965 and spent his career in communication technologies. This included systems engineering work on modems, digital data systems, X.25 packet networks, open systems, and advanced communication systems. Since 1982, he had various responsibilities for corporate-wide standards management. In October 2006, Herb was awarded the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Edward Lohse Information Technology Medal for outstanding technical and managerial leadership in establishing international information technology and telecommunications standards and the methods by which they are produced. Herb has a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree and a Master of Electrical Engineering degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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 Marco Carugi
Mentor of ITU-T SG20 and ITU-T SG13, Q2/20 Rapporteur and Q20/13 Co-Rapporteur
Technical areas of current involvement include Future Networks incl. IMT-2020/5G and Network 2030, Internet of Things/M2M, Big Data and ML/AI. He has professional experience in R&D and technology strategy, and he has worked in different market roles in Solvay group, Orange Labs, Nortel Networks CTO division and ZTE R&D Technology Strategy. Marco is active in standardization since long time, leading standards specifications in different domains (NGN, IoT/M2M, Big Data, IMT2020) and holding leadership positions. In the current 2017-2020 ITU-T study period, among other tasks, he is Champion of the Use Case Analysis and Requirements deliverable within the Focus Group on Data Processing and Management to support IoT and Smart Cities and Communities, as well as Editor of the Use Cases and Requirements deliverable within the ITU-T Focus Group on Technologies for Network 2030. During 2018 he has acted as Rapporteur for the European Commission in the joint MSP/DEI WG on Standardisation in support of Digitising European Industry and Editor of the Final Report of the WG (Dec 2018). He holds an Electronic Engineering degree in Telecommunications from University of Pisa (Pisa, Italy), a M.S. in Engineering and Management of Telecommunication Networks from National Institute of Telecommunications (Evry, France) and a Master in International Business Development from ESSEC Business School (Paris, France). He has also completed an Executive Program on Big Data Science at Ecole Centrale (Paris, France).
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 Craig Gibson
Principal Threat Architect, Trend Micro, United States
Craig Gibson has won multiple award awards in information security across 21 years of architecture, research, and investigations. As a United Nations Delegate to China and Trend Micro Principal Threat Architect he has spoken internationally on topics including Identity, Zero Trust, Artificial Intelligence, 5G and 6G, Counterterrorism, and Lawful Intercept. Craig has spoken at United Nations events (UNICRI, UNCCT, ITU). He has also spoken at international law enforcement events hosted by INTERPOL, Europol, and others. Craig’s research has been presented at RSA, GSMA, and similar events.
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Shane He
ITU-T Study Group 20 Q3 Rapporteur
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Tony Holmes
UK
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Xueqin Jia
Q2/20 Associate rapporteur, China Unicom
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 Wei Kai
ITU-T Study Group 16 Q22 Rapporteur Secretary | General of TBI, CAICT, China
Mr. Wei Kai is Chairman of ITU-T Focus Group on Application of Distributed Ledger Technology(FG DLT). He is the Vice Director of Cloud and Big Data Institute, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT). He leads a research group in CAICT working on big data and blockchain technology, consulting, standardization, testing and certification. His team proposed the Trusted Blockchain framework, which is a framework for Blockchain and DLT platform assessment. He is the founder and the Secretary General of Trusted Blockchain Initiatives(TBI), a cooperation network of 300 blockchain commpanies from China and abroad. He was the core drafting group of several Chinese national industrial policy and standards in ICT area in the past years. Wei Kai is also the Rapporteur of Question 22 under ITU-T Study Group 16.
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 Masahito Kawamori
ITU-T Study Group 16 Q28 Rapporteur | Project Professor, Media and Governance School, Keio University, Japan
Masahito Kawamori is a Project Prof. at the Media and Governance School, Keio University, Japan. Before joining Keio University in 2013, he had been a senior research engineer of NTT, which he joined in 1989 to do research and development in application of artificial intelligence, to convergent systems for mobile and fixed telecommunication, such as conversational robots and humanoids. This became, in 1998, a part of Japan Science and Technology Agency's program called Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology Program that aimed at "Creating the Brain". Since 2000, he was involved in several projects in and outside of Japan to apply metadata and ontology for various services including, but not limited to, telecommunication and broadcasting, which have led to global standards that are currently commercially deployed in several services. He is also actively involved with the International Telecommunication Union, part of the United Nations.
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 Juhee Ki
ITU-T Study Group 17 Q1 Associate Rapporteur | Senior Researcher, Global Cooperation and Standardization R&D Team, IITP, South Korea
Dr. Juhee Ki is a principal researcher at IITP (Institute of Information & communications Technology Planning & Evaluation). She has worked for IITP from 2003, which was established in 1999 as a government organization under the Ministry of Science and ICT to support R&D policy-making, R&D planning & evaluation, and expanding R&D results. She is responsible for ICT Standardization in IITP. She received her Ph. D. degree in 2013 from Korea University, Korea. She had been a visiting scholar at University of California, Davis from August 2014 to July 2016. Her main interests include Public Key Cryptography Application, Privacy & Anonymity and Authentication in the cybersecurity field. She is the Associate Rapporteur of Question 1 of ITU-T Study Group 17 since 2019.
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 Gyu Myoung Lee
Professor, Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), UK | Adjunct Professor, KAIST Institute for IT convergence, South Korea
Dr. Gyu Myoung Lee is with the Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), UK, as a Professor and with KAIST Institute for IT convergence, South Korea, as an Adjunct Professor. Prior to joining the LJMU, he has worked with the Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis, France, from 2008. Until 2012, he had been invited to work with the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Korea. He also worked as a research professor in KAIST, Korea and as a guest researcher in National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA, in 2007. His research interests include Internet of things, data analytics, computational trust, knowledge centric networking and services, multimedia services, and energy saving technologies including smart grids. He has been actively working for standardization in ITU-T, IETF and oneM2M, etc., and currently serves as a WP chair in SG13, a vice-chair of Focus Group on Autonomous Networks (FG-AN), a Rapporteur of Q16/13 and Q4/20 as well as an Editor in ITU-T. He was also the chair of ITU-T Focus Group on data processing and management (FG-DPM) to support IoT and smart cities & communities. He was awarded the Vice-Chancellor's Award for excellence in research in 2017 and was also awarded the Best Paper Awards in ICIN'2017, WF-IoT'2014, etc. He is a Senior Member of IEEE. He received his BS degree from Hong Ik University, Seoul, Korea, in 1999 and his MS and PhD degrees from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea, in 2000 and 2007.
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 Yutaka Miyake
Senior Manager, Technology Strategy Department, KDDI Corporation, Japan
Dr. Yutaka Miyake has been engaged in the research on high-speed communication protocol and secure communication system at the KDD R&D Laboratories and KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc. He is currently a senior manager of Technology Strategy Department in KDDI Corporation, and is also a senior manager of Smart Security Laboratory in KDDI Research Inc.He began participating in ITU-T SG 17 in 2005 and has been actively contributing to its activities as information security experts. He is a vice chair of ITU-T SG17, and a chair of WP1/SG17 from March 2017.
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Lia Molinari
ITU-T Study Group 17 WP3 Vice-Chair
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 Jae Hoon Nah
ITU-T Study Group 17 WP4 Chair & Rapporteur | Special Fellow Researcher, Security Research Laboratory, ETRI, South Korea
He began participating in ITU-T SG 17 in 2005. For the two Study Periods (2009 – 2012, 2013-2016), he served as a Rapporteur of Question 7/17 (Secure Application Services). He has been a Project Editor or Co-editor for 8 approved ITU-T Recommendations or agreed Supplements in the area of P2P (Peer-to-Peer) security, IPTV security, Web security, authentication protocol. From 1987, he has worked as a researcher for ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute), Republic of Korea. He is currently a special fellow researcher of Security Research Laboratory in ETRI. He had developed wired/mobile call processing software of a digital switching machine (TDX-10 ISDN, TDX-ATM) from 1987 to 2000. And He had developed security protocols and standards of secure P2P services, scalable code of IPTV security, Mashup Web security and enhanced attribute-aggregated authentication from 2001.
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 Francis Olivier Cubahiro
ITU-T Study Group 12 Associate Rapporteur of Q6/2 | ITU Focal Point, Burundi
Currently Francis is Director of ICT Infrastructures with following major Responsibilities: Planning and implementing the modernization and expansion of ICT infrastructures networks at national level; working closely with all telecoms and ICT operators and the National Telecom/ICT Regulator in planning and implementing of ICT infrastructures sharing policies and new ICT innovations and smart solutions aiming on universal access at national level. Francis is also the Burundi ITU Focal Point and Very active since 2014 in ITU-T and ITU-D study groups activities and from December 2017, Francis has been appointed as the Associate rapporteur of Q6/2 (ITU-T SG2): Management architecture and security and since then Francis has initiated a new work item on “requirements for management of application services over cloud and broadband ecosystem”. Since 2016, Francis has been appointed as the GAC (ICANN) Burundi representative and since then many progresses have been made in terms of common comprehensive of importance of DNS technical and business related at the National level. Graduated as a Telecommunications and computer Engineer, Francis is also certified in the Internet of Things (an IoT GSMA Program online course October 10th- to November 4th, 2016); certified in the Technical broadband strategy Implementation (an International Telecommunication Union Program, Dakar -Senegal 17may-3june, 2016): for an establishment of the Burundi broadband and digital strategy: for that work, Francis Olivier CUBAHIRO has been appointed as one of three national experts to work closely with an ITU expert for drafting the Document related which has been validated at National level and its adoption by the Government of Burundi is ongoing; certified in advanced hardware, computer networking, internet security (at CTTC Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India 1-28 February 2015); certified in Optical Fiber Cables, systems and Modern Transport Technologies (at CTTEM of Mumbai, India September 24 to November 16, 2012).
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 Ziqin Sang
ITU-T Study Group 20 Vice Chairman and WP2 Co-Chairman | Technical director, China Information Communication Technologies Group, China
Dr. Ziqin SANG joined Wuhan Research Institute of Posts and Telecommunications (WRI) in 1998 after obtaining his Ph.D. in pattern recognition and intelligent system from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. He heads a division of innovative research on smart city in the State Key Laboratory of Optical Communication Technologies and Networks since 2010. He has been active in standardization bodies such as ITU-T SG17, SG13, SG5 and SG20, CCSA TC8 and TC10. He served as a member of expert board of a Chinese 863 program of smart city, and a member of advisory board of EU-China Collaboration on IoT and 5G Research (program EXCITING). He was a vice chairman of ITU-T focus group on smart sustainable cities (FG-SSC) and a vice chairman of focus group on smart water management (FG-SWM). He is now a vice chairman of ITU-T SG20 and a vice chairman of CCSA TC10. He led and contributed to ITU-T Recommendations Y.4900, Y.4901, Y.4902, Y.4903, Y.4200 and Y.4201.
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 Andrew Vance
Professor of Computer Science and Cybersecurity, Johns Hopkins University, United States
Andrew Vance is a Professor of Computer Science and Cybersecurity at Johns Hopkins University. He is also the Executive Director for the Center for Cyber Risk Research and Policy at the Cyber Institute, a U.S. nonprofit and international NGO. He has been working in information technology and cybersecurity for just over 20 years where he worked in various roles within government, defense, industry, and academia. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering and Computing from New York Institute of Technology, a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnic Institute of New York University, and is currently completing his Doctor of Philosophy degree in Quantum Computing and Cybersecurity from Capitol Technology University School of Engineering. He is passionate about IT (and IT security) and about contributing to the body of knowledge within the field. He has provided legislative and policy advisement to United States (US) Congress and US government agencies. Andrew is a member of the FBI’s Infragard. He participates as a US Delegate to the UN ITU on developing policy and standards for Emerging Technologies such as blockchain, quantum computing, and artificial intelligence. He also serves as a US Delegate to NATO where he participates on the Multinational Cyber Defence Education & Training (MN CD E&T) Project. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers – Computer Society (IEEE-CS) where he serves on the Information Assurance Standards Committee (IASC) and Information System Security Assurance Architecture (ISSAA) Working Group (WG). In his free time, he likes to travel, spend time with his wife Taylor and their three kids; Ethan, Evan and Claire.
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 Hideki Yamamoto
ITU-T Study Group 16 Vice-chairman | Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. (OKI), Tokyo, Japan
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 Xiaoya YangITU-T Study Group 17 CounselorXiaoya Yang serves as the Counselor of ITU-T Study Group 17 ‘security’ since 2017. With 20+ years of professional experience in telecommunication regulation, legislation and international standardization and coordination, she was the Head of the WTSA Programmes Division in the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU-TSB) from 2010 to 2016, Co-counsellor of ITU-T Study Group 2 on 'Operational aspects of service provision and telecommunications management' and Study Group 3 on 'Tariff and accounting principles including related telecommunication economic and policy issues' from 2009 to 2010; Counselor of ITU-T Study Group 17 on 'Telecommunication security' from 2007 to 2008; and Workshop Project Coordinator from 2004 to 2006. Before joining ITU, she worked in the Ministry of Information Industry of China from 1998 to 2004. There she was the Division Director responsible for regulation of Internet and information security. From 1997 to 1998 she worked in China Telecom as a network engineer and service manager in their Internet service department. She has a M.S. in Computer Science from Tsinghua University, China and a MBA from Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. |
 Cristina BuetiITU-T Study Group 20 Counsellor
Cristina Bueti is the ITU Focal Point on Environment and Smart Sustainable Cities. She is also the Counsellor of ITU-T Study Group 20 “Internet of things (IoT) and smart cities and communities (SC&C)” at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). She also serves as TSB/ITU focal point for Latin America. Cristina Bueti graduated from the Faculty of Political Science, Law and International Cooperation and Development of the University of Florence, where she completed postgraduate studies in International Cooperation and Telecommunications Law in Europe. She also holds a specialization in Environmental Law with a special focus on Telecommunications. In 2003, Ms. Bueti built on her academic credentials by completing a specialized course in peace keeping and international cooperation with special focus on telecommunications at the Faculty of Laws, University of Malta, before joining the International Telecommunication Union in Geneva in January 2004. As part of the International Women's Day 2016, she was named as one of the twenty Geneva-based inspirational women working to protect the environment. She has authored over 40 reports on telecommunication issues. A native Italian speaker, Cristina is also fluent in English, French and Spanish.
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 Simao Campos
ITU-T Study Group 16 Counsellor
Simão joined the secretariat of the ITU Standardization Sector in 2002, and is the Counsellor for ITU-T Study Group 16 (for standardization work on multimedia, including audio and video coding, accessibility/human factors, e-health, ITS, IPTV and digital signage) and ITU-T Focus Group on AI for health (FG-AI4H). He has a long experience in standardization, having started with voice compression standards in 1989. Prior to joining ITU, Simão was a Scientist at COMSAT Labs in the USA and a researcher at CPqD, a telecom research center in Brazil. A Senior Member of the IEEE, Simão authored several academic papers and position papers, served in the review committee of several IEEE-sponsored conferences, and organized the first ITU Kaleidoscope Conference.
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