Thursday, May 17, 2007

Ofcom Spectrum Advisory Board

I'm delighted to announce that I have just been appointed to the Ofcom Spectrum Advisory Board (www.osab.org.uk). OSAB provides independent advice to Ofcom (www.ofcom.org.uk) on strategic spectrum management issues. It provides input directly to Ofcom's main board. This gives me a great opportunity to gain deeper knowledge of (and potentially to influence) Ofcom's future direction on spectrum matters. I also get to interact with some very interesting people, namely:

  • Sir David Brown - Chairman of Motorola Limited
  • Dr David Cleevely - Founder of Analysys and previous Chairman of Analysys Limited
  • Professor Leela Damodaran - leads the Information, Technology and Society Research Group at Loughborough University
  • Professor Barry Evans -  Director of the Centre for Communication Systems Research (CCSR) and Pro-Vice Chancellor (Research & Enterprise) at University of Surrey
  • Debbie Gillatt - Director, Communications Networks at the Department of Trade and Industry
  • Phillipa Marks - Director of Indepen Consulting
  • Andrew Sleigh - Managing Director, Knowledge and Information Systems Division for QinetiQ
  • Professor Will Stewart - Previously the Chief Scientist at Marconi
  • Stephen Temple CBE - Previously Director of Strategic Projects, Vodafone and Managing Director of the Networks Division of ntl
  • Dr Walter Tuttlebee - Chief Executive of the Virtual Centre of Excellence in Mobile & Personal Communications - Mobile VCE
  • Robert Pepper - Senior Managing Director, Global Advanced Technology Policy, Cisco Systems Inc and previously Bureau Chief at the FCC
  • Professor Tommaso Valletti - Professor of Economics at Imperial College London and at the University of Rome