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The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies, will inaugurate its new management team tomorrow, 16 January 2019.
Unlike other United Nations agencies, which have just one elected head, the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference elects five top officials.
The five Elected Officials have taken up their duties on 1 January 2019, for the next four years (2019 to 2023):
- Mr Houlin Zhao of China was re-elected to the post of ITU Secretary-General.
- Mr Malcolm Johnson of the United Kingdom was re-elected to the post of ITU Deputy Secretary-General.
- Dr Chaesub Lee of the Republic of Korea was re-elected to the post of Director of ITU’s Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB).
- Mr Mario Maniewicz of Uruguay was elected to the post of Director of ITU’s Radiocommunication Bureau (BR).
- Ms Doreen Bogdan-Martin of the United States was elected to the post of Director of ITU’s Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT). Ms Bogdan-Martin is the first woman elected to an ITU leadership position in the Union’s 153-year history.
What: Inauguration ceremony for ITU’s top 5 newly elected officials
When: 16 January 2019, 11:00 to 12:00
Where: International Telecommunication Union, Popov Room, Geneva
Who: Permanent Missions and Heads of UN Agencies based in Geneva and members of the press
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