Mignon L. Clyburn was nominated as a member of the Federal Communications Commission on June 25, 2009, and sworn in August 3, 2009. Her term runs until June 30, 2012.

Commissioner Clyburn has a long history of public service and dedication to the public interest. Prior to her swearing in as Commissioner, Ms. Clyburn served for 11 years as the representative of South Carolina's sixth district on the Public Service Commission of South Carolina (PSC). She was sworn in for her first term in July 1998, and was subsequently reelected in 2002 and 2006. She served as chair of the PSC from July 2002 through June 2004.... more

Meredith Attwell Baker was nominated by President Barack Obama as a member of the Federal Communications Commission on June 25, 2009, and sworn in on July 31, 2009.

Ms. Baker most recently served as Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information and Acting Administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). NTIA is the President's principal advisor on telecommunications and information policy. Ms. Baker was named Deputy Assistant Secretary in February 2007 and first joined NTIA as a Senior Advisor in January 2004. She also served as Acting Associate Administrator for the Office of International Affairs and on detail to the White House, Office of Science and Technology Policy... more

Ms De La Torre was appointed Chief of the International Bureau, Federal Communications Commission (FCC), United States on 21 October 2009. Since 1998, Ms. De La Torre has been the president of the consulting firm Telecommunications Management Group, Inc. (TMG). Prior to joining TMG, Ms. De La Torre was the deputy chief of the Telecommunications Division at the International Bureau, which she joined in December 1994. Ms. De La Torre also worked at the Department of Commerce -- for over four years at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and for three years in the General Counsel's office. She has been a member of various U.S. delegations to International Telecommunication Union conferences, such as World Radiocommunication Conferences, World Telecommunication Development Conferences, and Plenipotentiary Conferences. Ms. De La Torre has a B.A. from Vanderbilt University and a J.D. from the University of Texas. Having lived overseas most of her life, she speaks fluent Portuguese, French, and Spanish, and is proficient in Italian.

Irene S. Wu is Acting Chief Data Officer in the Federal Communications Commissions? International Bureau. Previously, she was the Director of Research in the Strategic Analysis and Negotiating Division. She joined the Commission in 1996, and has covered both APEC and the OECD. She is an adjunct professor in Georgetown University?s Communications, Culture, and Technology program; in 2007-2008 she was their first Yahoo! Fellow in Values, Communications Technology and Global Internet. Her book From Iron Fist to Invisible Hand: the Uneven Path of Telecom Reform in China is published by Stanford. She chairs the Practicing Politics Working Group of the American Political Science Association, a community of researchers in international, national, state, and local government. She is an elected board director of the Harvard Alumni Association, which supports 190 clubs in 70 countries. She holds an A.B. in Social Studies from Harvard, and a Ph.D. in International Relations from Johns Hopkins.

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Nancy J. Victory is a partner in Wiley Rein's Communications Practice and chairs the International Telecommunications Group. She has extensive experience in communications policy and advises a broad cross-section of the industry on the business implications of regulatory policy, representing these entities before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Congress and the Administration. Commended in the 2010 edition of The Legal 500 US as a "rising star," she also is praised as an "expert on international matters" by Chambers USA (2010), which rates her as one of Washington, DC's "Leading Lawyers" in her field. Ms. Victory previously served as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information and Administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (2001-2003); Chair, FCC Advisory Committee for the 2007 World Radiocommunication Conference (2003-2007); and Chair, FCC Independent Panel Reviewing the Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Communications Networks (2006).

Ms. D'Costa is infoDev's Program Manager. She most recently served as Director of the International Division at the Info-Communication Development Authority of Singapore - the government agency charged with the development, promotion and regulation of Singapore's ICT sector.

Ms. D'Costa has had a distinguished career in private legal practice and in government service. She holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from the National University of Singapore and a Master of Laws degree from University College, University of London. In her previous position, Ms. D'Costa was responsible for the formulation of the Singapore Government's policies on international ICT issues and oversees bilateral relations with other countries on ICT issues. She has a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities related to the ICT4D agenda and leads infoDev's efforts to advance the role that ICTs can play in fighting poverty and empowering people.

Jennifer Hindin is a partner in Wiley Rein's Communications and International Trade Practices. Ms. Hindin represents clients in regulatory, policy and transactional matters, and specializes in satellite and earth station licensing and international telecommunications. She is co-chair of the Federal Communications Bar Association's International Telecommunications Committee. Ms. Hindin graduated cum laude from New York University School of Law. 

Serena Romano studied in Paris, London and Brussels where she earned a law degree at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

After working for an international management consultancy firm, she joined Eurocard International to head its legal affairs department and participated to the growth of international payment systems in Europe. She was later appointed head of the legal and licensing department of Europay International.

In 1996, Serena Romano reoriented her career in telecommunications and participated to the launch of the 2nd Belgian mobile operator Mobistar. In 1997, she joined Olivetti's Brussels office as head of telecommunications regulation and antitrust.

In 2000 she relocated to Rome to take care of Telecom Italia's international regulatory and antitrust policies. She is now in charge of international institutions and affairs for Telecom Italia.

Serena Romano is Vice-Chair of the Information Computer Communications Policy Committee (ICCP) for the Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD.

She is also the President of Corrente Rosa that she co-founded in Italy in 2006. Corrente Rosa is a women's advocacy association which promotes women's participation in business, institutions and politics to achieve a greater balance of talents in society.

In December 2009 she became one of the founding Members of the Board Committee of Pari o Dispare an Association whose main objective is to create an Authority for gender-related issues in Italy.

Serena Romano lives in Rome with her husband.

Susan Ness is a former commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission and the head of Susan Ness Strategies, a communications policy consulting firm. She co-led a federal agency review team for the Obama Presidential Transition. She currently is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and is an affiliated expert of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation.  She frequently lectures on domestic and global communications policy and on women's leadership.

Commissioner Ness served on the Federal Communications Commission from 1994 to 2001, where she played a leading role on spectrum policy issues, championed competition and spectrum auctions, and fostered new technologies, including PCS, digital television, digital satellite and terrestrial radio, wireless broadband, and unlicensed services. She fought to connect schools and libraries to the Internet and forged stakeholder consensus on a standard for digital television. Internationally, she was FCC's senior representative at three ITU WRC conferences and participated in many bilateral and multinational negotiations on trade, spectrum, and standards. 

From 2005 to 2007, she was the founding president and CEO of GreenStone Media, LLC, which produced talk programming targeting women for syndication on radio and other platforms.  At its peak, GreenStone produced 63 hours/week of original, award-winning talk programming.

She was Distinguished Visiting Professor of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication, where she taught graduate seminars on domestic and global communications policy, and was Director of Information and Society at the Annenberg Public Policy Center. Prior to the FCC, she was vice president of a national bank, funding communications sector companies, and was assistant counsel to the Banking Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives.

She served on the boards of directors of two publicly traded companies: the post-bankruptcy filing board of Adelphia Communications Corporation; and LCC International, a global technology firm. She also served on the non-profit board of the Library of American Broadcasting Foundation. She is a member of the District of Columbia Bar and the Federal Communications Bar Association. She has held many civic leadership positions in Montgomery County, Maryland, including Charter Review Commission chair, Commission for Women president, and Task Force on Community Access Television vice chair, and was selected for the Leadership Washington Class of 1988.   

Among the honors and awards presented for her work are:  the International Radio and Television Society Foundation 1999 Achievement Award; the Digital Television Pioneer Award; Electronic Media's "12 to Watch in 1997;" the Annenberg School for Communication's Edward L. Palmer Award; the 2002 National Association of Broadcasters' Engineering and Technology Achievement Award; American Women in Radio and Television's first “Advocates” Award; the District of Columbia AWRT Leadership Award; and the Wireless Women's Network's first Leadership Award.  Rutgers University inducted her into its Hall of Distinguished Alumni and Douglass College inducted her into the Douglass Society.

She received a B.A. in political science/international relations from Douglass College, and served on the board of directors of WRSU Radio (Rutgers University). She studied multilingualism in Geneva, Switzerland with Sarah Lawrence College during her junior year. She earned a J.D., cum laude, from Boston College Law School, and an M.B.A. in finance from The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania.

Ms. Jasna Matic was elected Minister of Telecommunications and Information Society, in July 2008, after more than fifteen years of experience in public service, international organizations, Serbian and international business and political environment.

Ms. Matic was born in Belgrade, where she studied and received a degree in civil engineering from the Faculty of Civil Engineering. She has completed postgraduate studies and earned an MBA from the Washington University in St Louis, USA.

At the beginning of her professional career Ms. Matic worked for five years as a construction engineer and project manager in Belgrade, designing and managing implementation for a number of industrial, business and public projects.

She �has also worked as a consultant for the World Bank in Washington D.C. where she coordinated analysis of ICT readiness and Digital Gap for more than 20 countries in Europe, Asia and Africa.

Upon return to Serbia, in 2001, Ms. Matic was appointed special advisor to the Yugoslav Deputy Prime Minister. She coordinated implementation of several complex projects and conducted negotiations with the European Commission, the World Bank and other international financial institutions.

Between 2002-2004, Ms. Matic was engaged as the chief national competitiveness advisor for Booz Allen Hamilton on the USAID project aimed the improving competitiveness of Serbian economy.� In 2004 Ms Matic was appointed to be the Director of Serbian Investment and Export Promotion Agency (SIEPA). Under her leadership SIEPA was recognized by several international organizations as one of the best promotion agencies among the developing and countries in transition.

In May 2007 Ms. Matic was appointed to be the State Secretary for International Economic Relations at the Ministry of Economy and Regional Development. She was in charge of foreign trade, multilateral and bilateral international economic relations, as well as competitiveness and quality infrastructure. She was Serbia�s lead negotiator for the WTO membership.

She speaks English and Italian fluently, and has a basic knowledge of German

Robin R. Layton is the Director of the Commerce Department's Office of Technology and Electronic Commerce (OTEC). Part of the Manufacturing and Services bureau of the International Trade Administration, OTEC has three teams. The ECommerce team provides general trade and policy analysis and research to promote a favorable global policy environment for electronic commerce growth while the Information Technology and Telecommunications teams actively support U.S. ICT firms' efforts to expand their business opportunities overseas. Ms. Layton leads the U.S. delegation to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) negotiations on establishing a regional agreement for cross border data flows

Maja is interested in the potential of mobile telephony to support innovation in emerging markets. She joined the World Bank Group in March of 2007 and is currently a researcher and project officer with infoDev. Previously, she worked in the private sector on developing Internet technology used to track public opinion, and with the International Institute for Sustainable Development, where she helped advance sustainability issues at the World Summit on the Information Society and the Internet Governance Forum. Maja holds a BComm from Queen's University in Canada, an LLM in International Law from the University of Kent and is pursuing doctoral studies at the University of Oxford as an Oxford University Press Clarendon Scholar.

Ms. Huda Izziddin has an LLB in Private Law from the University of Jordan and a Diploma in English Legal Studies and an LLM degree in Commercial Law from Bristol University / England. Ms. Izziddin, is a founding partner of BidPai Consulting, a newly established consulting company providing a full set of professional services in the fields of telecommunications, energy, and post, including consultancy, project management, research studies, feasibility studies and representing corporations before regulatory bodies.

During the past 12 years Ms. Izziddin held the position of Director of Legal Affairs in both the Jordanian Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (TRC), and Jordan Mobile Telephone Services Company (Zain) respectively

Prior to that she worked as the In-house lawyer in Petra-Bank under liquidation, in addition to working as a practicing lawyer in two highly ranked law offices in Jordan Ms. Izziddin has participated in several seminars among which is the "Number Portability Seminar" held in Berlin 2002, and the "Women's Leadership Seminar" held in Washington., D.C. 2009.

Among her duties was the participation in the review of Laws, Bylaws, and Policy Statements, Regulatory Instructions and consultations and providing opinions to the TRC and/or the Zain on the same.

Dr. Veena Rawat is President of the Communications Research Centre, Canada's largest public sector ICT research and commercialization institution. With 35 years of experience in government, Dr. Rawat manages programs related to spectrum planning, engineering and regulations development for terrestrial and space services. In 2003 she chaired the World Radiocommunication Conference, for which she was awarded a Gold Medal from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). Dr. Rawat has been a keynote and invited speaker at over 100 conferences and events since 1995. In 2010, she is a candidate for the position of Director, Radiocommunication Bureau, ITU.

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Diane Cornell is the Vice President for Government Affairs at Inmarsat, where she oversees regulatory and market access matters worldwide.� Before joining Inmarsat in 2005, Ms. Cornell was Vice President, Regulatory Policy at CTIA, The Wireless Association, where she was responsible for coordinating federal regulatory issues affecting the mobile wireless industry.� Ms. Cornell previously worked at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), where she served as Legal Advisor to three Commissioners, Chief of Staff of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, and Division Chief in two bureaus.� ��

Ms. Cornell is the immediate Past President of the Federal Communications Bar Association, and is a former director of the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC). She is a former President of USA Badminton, the national governing body for the sport of badminton with the U.S. Olympic Committee. Ms. Cornell received her B.A. degree from Wesleyan University and her J.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania.�

Katy J. Milner is an associate in Wiley Rein's Communications Practice. She assists clients in a variety of telecommunications regulatory, transactional and compliance matters. Ms. Milner counsels clients on state on compliance with federal and state regulatory obligations, prepares comments and other pleadings before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and advises clients on a variety of FCC wireless and satellite licensing issues. She also has experience with Broadband Stimulus issues. Ms. Milner received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Emory University and graduated cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law.

Doreen took up her current position in January 2008, and became the first women appointed to this level at ITU. She manages a large portfolio, including the Secretariat of the Governing Bodies of the Union (i.e., Council and Plenipot). She was previously the Head of the Regulatory Division in the Development Sector. She is a leading authority on regulatory and policy trends, and was the key architect of the Trends in Telecom Reform reports, and the Global Symposium for Regulators. Before joining ITU in 1994, Doreen was a Telecom Policy Specialist in the Office of International Affairs of the National Telecommunication and Information Administration (NTIA). She holds an MA in Communications Policy from the School of International Service, American University.

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Head of International Affairs at Knowledge Society Agency (UMIC), the national public agency responsible for the coordination of Information Society Policies. She represents PT in several international organizations such as European Union (EU), OECD (WPIE of ICCP) and United Nations (CSTD), on Information Society and Research areas. She is delegate to the HLG on Internet Governance of the EU and member of the GAC of ICANN. Ana also represents Portugal at IGF at governmental level. She is also involved at EuroDIG events, acting as co-organizer both for 2009 and 2010 sessions. She is also organizer of the Portuguese IGF. She was Counselor for S&T, Space, Education and Information Society in the Permanent Representation of PT to the EU from 2002-2008. She was involved in the three PT Presidencies of the Council of the EU (1992, 2000 and 2007). In 2007 she chaired the Research Working Party (WP), the Joint Atomics Questions-Research WP, the Ad-hoc WP on EIT, the Education Committee (Higher Education) and the Telecom/Information Society WP (INFSO part). She negotiated with the Council and with the European Parliament bringing closure to a number of complex files such as the Regulation establishing the EIT (The European Institute of Innovation and Technology), "ARTEMIS", "ENIAC", "IMI" and "Clean Sky" Joint Technology Initiatives, the Decision on "Ambient Assisted Living" and paved the way towards the decision on "Eurostars". She also negotiated several files, adopted as Ministerial Council Conclusions and Resolution, such as "The Future of Science and Technology in Europe", the "Scientific Information in the digital age: access, dissemination and preservation", the "Modernizing universities for Europe's competitiveness in a global knowledge economy" and on "Nanosciences and nanotechnologies". Prior to that position, she was the Advisor on International Affairs to the Portuguese Minister of Science and Technology (1997-2002). She joined the Public Administration at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in September 1991.