 Martin Euchner
Advisor, ITU-T
Since December 2010, Mr Martin Euchner has been serving the International Telecommunication Union as an international civil servant and fonctionnaire in the role of an Advisor in ITU-T TSB: first for ITU-T Study Group 17 on security, identity management and formal languages, then as acting Advisor for ITU-T Study Group 3 on economic and policy matters and its regional groups, and for the ITU-T TSAG advisory group. As the secretariat, he has been managing and preparing the study group meetings and the Recommendations, and assisted in the organization of various ITU workshops. He was also providing the secretariat for the ITU-T Joint Coordination Group on Identity Management (JCA-IdM), for the ITU-T Joint Coordination Group on Child Online Protection (JCA-COP), for the ITU-T TSAG Rapporteur Group on Strengthening Collaboration, for the TSAG Rapporteur Group on Standardization Strategy, for the TSAG Rapporteur Group on Review of and streamlining WTSA Resolutions, for the management group of the IEC-ISO-ITU-UNECE Memorandum on electronic Business (MoU/MG), and the IEC-ISO-ITU-T Standardization Programme Coordination Group (SPCG). As TSB Focal Point he was also contributing reports to the ITU Council Working Group on WSIS & SDGs, the Council Working Group on Internet public policy matters, the ITU Expert Group on ITRs; is the WTSA Programme Manager, and he assisted in the organization of the World Telecommunication Standardization Assemblies (WTSA) in 2012, 2016, and 2022. Mr Martin Euchner has more than 25 years of profound experience in active international standardization as an expert, in leadership positions, and as administrative secretary in an advisory capacity. He began his career as a security engineer in Siemens R & D labs 1991 where he researched, developed and implemented cryptography, network security and security for multimedia systems in various international, national and company internal projects. In 1996/1997, he joined security standardization where he had been making numerous active contributions to Voice-over-IP security standards such as ITU-T H.323/H.235, ETSI TIPHON/TISPAN, IMTC, and Internet security in IETF. He had also been actively involved in cable standardization such as the IPCablecom projects in ITU-T Study Group 9 and in ETSI TC AT-D. He also participated in the German national body delegation to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC27/WG5 IT security, privacy and IDM standardization. Involved in VoIP security standardization since 1997, he took leadership roles in security standardization as Editor and Rapporteur in ITU-T Study Group 16 since 2000 in ITU-T where he has progressed Recommendation ITU-T H.235 into version 4. He had been actively involved in standardizing security for Next Generation Networks. He was co-chairing as vice chairman of working group 7 in ETSI TISPAN where he was driving forward as editor/Rapporteur the Next Generation Network Release 1 security initiative and has produced important NGN security standards. He was further an active contributor to ITU-T's Next Generation Network initiative in ITU-T Study Group 13, was involved in ITU-T Study Group 17 general security standardization and cybersecurity standards, and in the ITU-T Focus Group on Identity Management. From 2006 till 2010, he was working as senior security standardization expert in the fixed network department of Siemens ICN and then for the CTO within Nokia Siemens Networks.During his career, he has gained broad expertise in various fields of standardization, where he is collaborating with many experts and partners. He received a master's degree in computer science from Goethe University/Frankfurt. He received the FCT Test of Time Award for practical lattice reduction algorithms, the IMTC H.323 Pioneer Major Contributor Group Award, and IPR Contributor 2009 award by Nokia Siemens Networks, as well as many other certificates of appreciation during his career.
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