Mr Mišmaš has been serving as the Director of AKOS since 2023. His extensive professional background is rooted in over two decades of industry experience. Prior to his role at AKOS, the elected incoming BEREC Chair 2026 held various positions in telecommunications, smart metering, and the automotive industries, most recently as R&D Director in the private company Iskra Mehanizmi and before that as R&D Director in the company Iskraemeco. Marko Mišmaš holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Ljubljana.

I graduated with a degree in management and leadership from SWPS University in Warsaw. I have had a long career in journalism. I began working in this profession in the 1990s, when I joined “Gazeta Wyborcza.” I later served as deputy editor-in-chief of publications such as “Puls Biznesu” and “Businessweek.” I was editor-in-chief of the monthly “Forbes,” the weeklies “Newsweek Polska” and “Wprost,” and “Dziennik Gazeta Prawna.” I had the honor of co-hosting RMF FM’s “Kontrapunkt” and “Newsweek,” as well as managing the news portal pulsbiznesu.pl. I have moderated hundreds of debates, conferences, and panel discussions, and served on juries for numerous journalism awards.

After leaving the media industry, I became Managing Director of the Prime Speakers speaking agency and then Head of the Washington branch of the Atlantic Council think tank. I also served on the board of the Youth Achievement Foundation and served as President of the Polska od Nowa Foundation.

Miguel González-Sancho is Head of the Unit “Cybersecurity Technology and Capacity Building” at the European Commission and interim Executive Director of the “European Cybersecurity Competence Centre”, covering various EU files on cybersecurity including: funding for research and deployment, network of Security Operations Centres, cyber emergency fund and reserve, 5G and supply chain, certification, threat detection and response, relations with the European Cybersecurity Agency-ENISA.

Robert Mourik is a BEREC Vice-Chair in 2024 and assumed the role of BEREC Chair for 2025 on 1 January. He joined the Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg) as Commissioner in 2019 and has almost thirty years’ experience in the telecoms sector, as an industry executive and as a Government official. Prior to joining ComReg, he worked for Cubic Telecom, a new entrant in the automotive IoT space, where he was responsible for all wholesale activities. Robert spent almost 10 years in Telefonica as the European Regulatory Strategy Director at their corporate HQ in Madrid and as Strategy Director in Ireland. He also worked for Vodafone Group, as its head of their Brussels Office and in the regulatory department in Newbury, UK. In 1991, Robert began his career in the Dutch Department for Transport and Telecommunication, and from 1994 until 1999, he served as Telecom Attache at the Netherlands’ Permanent Representation in Brussels. He was a Member and Chair of the Council Telecoms Working Group in 1998, when the first telecom regulatory package was adopted. Robert was born in the Netherlands and studied Economics and Public Policy at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam and the University of Hull (UK).

Before joining Wi-Fi Alliance in 2008, Kevin enjoyed working with early stage technology start-ups on business strategy consulting and technology market research. Kevin is a veteran of the United States Army, where he served as a Captain in the Infantry. Kevin holds a BS in Computer Science from the United States Military Academy at West Point and an MBA with a specialization in Entrepreneurship from The University of Texas at Austin. He lives with his family in Austin, Texas.

Luigi Ardito is currently working as Director of government affairs for Europe, Middle East and North Africa at Qualcomm and drives the Qualcomm spectrum and regulatory policy agenda in Europe and MENA dealing with various government entities and industry organizations. 

Prior to joining Qualcomm, Luigi worked for over a decade at Sony Corporation both in Japan and in the UK. Luigi also gained professional experience at France Telecom and at the Italian Public Broadcaster RAI.

Luigi has extensive experience in the Media and Telecom industry as well as the Semiconductor Industry gained through his assignments at Qualcomm, Sony, France Telecom and RAI. He holds an Electronic Engineering Degree gained at the Politecnico di Torino in Italy and a Master of Business Administration gained at the Henley Management College in the UK.

Dr Kamila Kloc joined the European Commission in December 2004.

As of July 2023 Kamila was nominated as the Director of Directorate B Digital Decade and Connectivity of Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT) after acting in this position from February 2023. She held a position of the Head of Markets’ Unit in the same Directorate from 2019.

Previously she served as Deputy Head of Cabinet for Vice President Ansip responsible for Digital Single Market. Prior to joining the Cabinet, she worked at Directorate General for Energy coordinating exemptions from regulatory access rules for gas pipelines. During the Polish Presidency in 2011, she was seconded by the Commission to the President’s office of the Polish Energy Regulatory Authority.

Earlier, she worked for 5 years at the Directorate General for Competition dealing with merger and antitrust cases.

Prior to joining the Commission, she was employed at the Office for Competition and Consumer Protection in Poland as Adviser to the President. Kamila Kloc started her professional career in academia and taught at the Warsaw School of Economics as Assistant Professor. She has written her PhD on the role of competition policy in the public utilities sector with a special emphasis on telecommunications. She was a Fulbright scholar at the University of California in Berkeley and a Chevening fellow at Oxford University.

Laszlo Toth, Head of Europe & CIS, leads a highly experienced cross-functional team and drives collaborative efforts between the mobile industry, policymakers and ecosystems to advance digital economies. He focuses on the promotion and execution of the GSMA’s global programmes at the regional level, as well as managing and delivering regional priorities.

Laszlo started his professional career working at telecoms operators. Prior to joining GSMA in 2011, he spent nine years at the Hungarian public administration, including spells at the Ministry responsible for ICT and at the national telecoms regulator. Laszlo has an MSc. in economics and holds a degree in computer sciences.

Dragan is Senior Director of Public Affairs, Communications & Regulatory at American Tower Europe. Since September 2024, he has chaired the Strategy and Policy Working Group of the European Wireless Infrastructure Association (EWIA).

Previously, Dragan served as Senior Manager at Deutsche Telekom, where he was part of the Public & Regulatory Affairs team, focusing on digital policy as well as mergers and antitrust matters in the ICT sector. Before joining Deutsche Telekom, he worked as an economist in the Chief Economist Team at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition (DG COMP), contributing to EU merger and antitrust cases.

He holds a Ph.D. in Competition Economics and Industrial Organization from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf.

A graduate in modern languages and economics from the University of Reims, holder of a diploma in public administration, Pascal Rogard has led the ORANGE Group office in Brussels since April 2020.

He was previously Digital Advisor at the Representation of France in Brussels and also carried out various management activities as office manager and then director at the Ministry of Economy.

He has worked on economic regulation and merger control issues at the Ministry of Economy and Finance in close collaboration with the services of the European Commission.

He also spent part of his career in the services of the European Commission at DG Trade in charge of bilateral and multilateral negotiations and thus has an excellent knowledge of Community procedures and networks.

Finally, he worked in various ministerial cabinets (foreign trade and consumption) and sat on the High Council of Merchant Aviation, Ubifrance, Cofres and the International Investment Agency. He also served as “SME Envoy” for France, rapporteur for the Economic Medicines Committee and Vice-Chairman of the OECD SME Committee. He represented France at the Bureau International des Expositions.

Languages: English, German, Spanish

Publication of articles and various activities: La Revue de la Concurrence: “The liberalisation of air transport in France and in Europe”, “The functioning of the Bundeskartelamt”, “Innovation and exports of SMEs.” Chairman of CLENAD ( END Liaison Committee), Vice-champion of France in high jump, Knight of the National Order of Merit, Auditor of the Cycle of Advanced Studies for Economic Development and of the Advanced Cycle of the ENA.

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Michel Van Bellinghen chairs the BIPT Council and is responsible for the following departments: Budget and Finance, Communications, Translation, International Relations and Registry.

Michel Van Bellinghen, Master of Laws (UCL), started off at the university in 1990 as a researcher, then became an assistant under the supervision of Professor Françoise Tulkens, at the UCL Laws Centre for Criminal Law.

He became an assistant advisor at the Ministry of Justice in 1992 under the supervision of Professor Marc Bossuyt and joined BIPT in 1997. From 1999 to 2003 he held the position of expert at the private office of Rik Daems, who was the Federal Telecommunications Minister at the time, and afterwards took up the function of Assistant Head of the Private Office. From 2003 until 2009 he was nominated Member of the BIPT Council for the first time. Following this mandate he remained closely affiliated to the Council and supervised the legal department of the regulator during a number of years. He has written scientific publications. In 2013 he held a position on the Council as a Member. In January 2017 he was assigned Chairman of the BIPT Council. In January 2024, he was reappointed as Chairman of the BIPT Council.

Franco Accordino is the Head of the “Investment in High-Capacity Networks” unit within the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology. The unit supports the deployment and take-up of gigabit and 5G networks underpinning the 2030’s connectivity vision and targets of the Digital Decade Policy Programme.

Before this role, Franco was the Head of the “Knowledge Management and Innovative Systems” unit delivering solutions in such fields as data analytics, participatory platforms (futurium), and artificial intelligence. He also led the “Digital Futures 2050” foresight.

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Jan Ellsberger is a globally recognised leader in the ICT industry with more than 30 years of experience with research and innovation, industry ecosystem development, standardisation, policy development & regulation, and strategy development in the telecommunications and automotive industries. From 2000-2012 he was leading Ericsson’s global standardisation operations.

He has also served in leading positions in several industry associations such as 3GPP, 5GAA, ERTICO and the Horizon Europe CCAM Association.

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Jonas Wessel is Director of the Resource Management Department at the Swedish Post and Telecom Agency (PTS). He is also Chair of the Radio Spectrum Policy Group (RSPG) for the 2018-2019 period. The RSPG is a high-level advisory group that assists the European Commission in the development of radio spectrum policy. JMr Wessel holds a MSC from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Industrial Engineering and Management. He started his professional career as a strategy consultant, working mainly with business development in the telecoms and IT-sector.

In 2003, Mr Jonas joined the PTS as advisor on radio spectrum policy issues. After several positions within the Agency, including responsibility for auctions, he was assigned Director of the Spectrum Department in 2014. Jonas has been one of the driving forces behind the transformation of spectrum management in Sweden and has also been working with these issues internationally, mainly through the RSPG where he has been a delegate since 2004. He was Vice Chairman of the RSPG for the 2016-2017 period.

Eric Fournier is currently Director for Spectrum Planning and International Affairs in the Agence Nationale des Fréquences (ANFR), the French public agency in charge of spectrum management (www.anfr.fr).

In this capacity, Mr Fournier is responsible for preparing the revisions of the French national table of spectrum allocation and for coordinating French positions in international meetings on spectrum within ITU, CEPT and EU. He was deputy head of the French delegation for RRC-06, WRC-07, WRC-12, WRC-15 and WRC-19.

Mr Fournier has been involved in all discussions on major evolution of spectrum in Europe and was Chairman of the Electronic Communication Committee (CEPT/ECC) from 2013 to 2018 and of the European Conference Preparatory Group for the World Radiocommunications Conference 2012 (CPG-12).

He is currently the chairman of the RSPG Good Offices addressing issues of cross-border coordination and interference within the EU.

Mr Fournier is a graduate telecom engineer from SUPELEC (France).

Andreas Wilzeck is Head of Spectrum Policy and Standards at Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG, Germany. 

He is Vice-Chair of the ETSI TC DECT, was Chair of the ETSI Evaluation Group for IMT-2020 and is an active participant in the standardisation work of various ETSI technical committees. He also participates in WRC, ITU-R, CEPT and other PMSE-related spectrum regulatory work globally.

He received the Dr.-Ing. degree from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover in August 2009.

Since 2023, Erzsébet Fitori has been the Executive Director of the Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking with a mission to boost 5G deployment in Europe and foster Europe’s technology sovereignty in 6G.

Previously, she was responsible for Vodafone Group’s engagement with the EU institutions and stakeholders, heading Vodafone’s Brussels Office and as Board Director in industry organizations. Before joining Vodafone in 2020, Erzsébet was Director General of the FTTH Council Europe, the pan-European trade association representing over 160 technology innovators, network operators, and investors across the fibre value chain. As chief executive, she focused on transforming it into a growing organization, increasing its membership base, revenues, and engagement with key decision-makers.

She joined the FTTH Council from the European Competitive Telecommunications Association (ECTA), where she represented 100+ challenger telecoms network operators.

As Director of ECTA, she oversaw its public policy, regulatory, and PR activities and led ECTA’s engagement with the EU institutions, national regulators, and governments. Before joining ECTA, she was Head of Regulatory Affairs at Telenor Hungary in Budapest. In her early career, Erzsébet was an Assistant Professor in the department of European law and private international law at the University of Miskolc, Hungary.

Dr. Tassos Lyratzis is an Electrical & Computer Engineer and holds a PhD in the field of Telecommunications & Computer Networks (1994). During his PhD studies, he worked as a specialist in Telecommunications in various European research projects.

 He is currently working in the Hellenic Telecommunications and Post Commission (EETT) since 2001, in the Spectrum Directorate. He has been the Head of the Spectrum Management Department (2003-2006) when EETT was involved in the Spectrum Management of the Olympic Games of Athens in 2004. Since 2011 he is Head (Director) of Spectrum Directorate of EETT.

He participates in international activities in CEPT (ECC, WGFM) as well as in European Union groups like the Radio Spectrum Committee (2003 – 2006), and the Radio Spectrum Policy Group (2011 – today). Since 2016 he has been co-chair of the RSPG sub-Groups working on 5G and 6G topics.

Eliane Semaan is a Senior Researcher at Ericsson. She received her M.Sc. degree in wireless systems from the Royal Institute of Technology and joined Ericsson in 2011. She is currently working on spectrum regulations and involved in different CEPT ECC groups, focusing on the introduction of 5G in Europe. She has been involved in the 3GPP standardization work for several releases of the 4G and 5G standards, focusing on physical layer enhancements (RAN1) and coexistence studies (RAN4).

Derek Khlopin is Deputy Associate Administrator in NTIA’s Office of Spectrum Management (OSM). Mr. Khlopin leads spectrum management efforts for the federal agencies, NTIA coordination groups such as IRAC and PPSG, and spectrum policy initiatives.

Derek has been with NTIA since 2015 as a Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary and NTIA Administrator, spending most of his time collaborating with OSM and ITS. More recently, he added to his responsibilities as Acting Chief of SAID. Prior to joining NTIA, Derek spent most of his career in the private sector after a start at the FCC, including in senior government affairs positions with Nokia. Derek is a graduate of the Catholic University of America School of Law.

Herman is a global public policy and government affairs leader who has been at the forefront of technology policy and advocacy work with innovators, governments and regulators for over twenty years. During this period, he has built highly effective public affairs teams, managed relations with ministries and regulators across EMEA and APAC, and directed government affairs for some of the biggest names in corporate tech.

Before founding Policy Impact Partners, Herman was responsible for spectrum and broadband advocacy at mobile industry association, the GSMA, where he led the global campaign to secure more spectrum for broadband services at the 2015 UN World Radiocommunication Conference. He also designed and coordinated multiple advocacy programmes across key markets in the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific to advance the release and licensing of the ‘digital dividend’ spectrum for mobile.

Herman has built a strong global network of senior level contacts both in government and across industry, and has a trusted reputation for effectively advocating policies that align business and societal goals. He is an accomplished speaker and moderator, and a regular contributor to capacity-building programmes for regulators and government representatives across the world.

Earlier in his career, Herman established and led the EU public affairs technology practice of the global communications consultancy in Brussels, Waggener Edstrom Worldwide, directing accounts with Amazon, Adobe, Microsoft and the Business Software Alliance. He also held operations, strategy and policy positions at British Telecom, and worked for the Dutch Industry Federation.

Herman has an MSc in political science and international economics and an MBA.

After a state exam in law at the University of Osnabrück, Mr Kühn has been working since 1998 in the area of legal internship (e.g. at Regional Court) of  the Federal Network Agency Germany; changing to National and International  Spectrum Regulation on different levels in 2005. Nowadays, he is the Deputy Head of Section for International Affairs and Utilization Concepts. His  responsibilities cover strategic frequency utilization concepts and the  transposition of those to the international level of CEPT, EU and ITU. Doing  this and having been active in the preparation of three WRC’s, on national  and on CEPT CPG level, Mr Kühn participated in a number of international  Groups, also as Head of the German Delegation. He has also chaired several  groups and subgroups in the ITU and CEPT. Since 2005, he has been responsible for the German preparation of the WRC’s and served as CEPT CPG Vice Chairman from 2010 to 2013. Mr Kühn was appointed Chairman of CPG in June 2013.

Chris Woolford is Ofcom’s Director of International Spectrum Policy where his responsibilities cover the UK’s international spectrum interests, especially in relation to the ITU, CEPT and EU. He has closely engaged for the UK on a number of key European regulatory initiatives in the field of electronic communications and participates in many European spectrum groups. He leads UK engagement with the ITU and led the UK delegations to WRCs in 2019, 2015 and 2012. He is currently preparing to lead the UK delegation to WRC-23.

In 2019 Mr Woolford took on the role of Chairman of the Electronic Communications Committee (ECC) of CEPT and was re-elected for a second term in 2022. He has also been a Director of the International Institute of Communications since 2018.

Mr Woolford has 25 years’ experience of working on spectrum and communications regulation, both at Ofcom and its predecessor (Oftel). He has a degree in mathematics and statistics from Manchester University.

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Guillaume de La Brosse is currently Head of Unit in charge of space innovation, start-ups and economics in the Commission (Direction-General for Defence Industry and Space). Previously, Guillaume was assistant to the Director-General.

Guillaume joined the Commission in 2016, as member of the Commission’s think-tank and member of the UK Task Force, where he dealt with security, defence and space.

Before joining the Commission, Guillaume worked in the European Defence Agency as assistant to the Executive Director (2011-2016) and as pol-mil adviser in the French Permanent representation to the EU (2006-2011).

Nassima Auvray has been the Head of Defense & Security Business Unit at Orange Business since January 2025.

She began her career at the French Defense procurement agency, Directorate General of Armaments (DGA), as an expert in military satellite telecommunications, before leading electronic warfare projects.

In 2015, she became DGA CFO’s Chief of Staff, and in 2017, she joined the Ministry of Finance, where she served as Deputy Head of the Defense Office.

In 2019, she took on the role of Innovation & Digital Advisor at the Ministry of the Armed Forces office. There, she notably led initiatives such as the creation of the Defense Ethics Committee, and the launch of the “Defense Innovation Fund” aimed at innovative companies working on technologies relevant to the defense sector (energy, quantum, AI, semiconductors, autonomous vehicles, cyber, space, etc.).

In January 2022, Nassima Auvray joined Orange Business as Chief Trust Officer, responsible for defining strategy on trust and digital sovereignty issues, starting with Cloud. She was notably involved in the launch of the joint-venture BLEU (shareholders: Orange & Capgemini).

Nassima Auvray is a chief armament engineer.

Peter is managing the Commission’s policy on 5G communication systems and the related research and innovation programme. 

Before his appointment as Head of Unit he was managing the office of the Director General of DG CONNECT, Roberto Viola, coordinating the Commission’s digital policy initiatives. The portfolio included Digital Single Market, Broadband Policy, Telecoms, Media and Online Policy, the Copyright Reform as well as the EU ICT Research and Innovation Programme. 

Between 2010 and 2014 he had different roles in the Commission’s telecoms policy Directorate. These included Head of Sector “Spectrum Policy”, penholder of main elements of the Commission proposal on the Telecom Single Market and the Roaming regulation, and the implementation of the EU telecom rules in Germany and Austria.

Between 2005 and 2010 he coordinated the EU R&D programme leading to the 4G mobile communications standards. 

Before joining the European Commission in 2004 he has occupied several engineering and management positions in industry, academia and start-ups. He holds engineering and doctoral degrees from RWTH Aachen University, Germany.

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Per Beming is currently responsible for all standardization and industry initiatives, including open source, for the Ericsson Group. In previous roles Per was responsible for Radio’s 5G program targeting 5G RAN products and demos, in addition to driving the architecture at Business Area Networks.

He has been Director of RBS Systems at Development Unit Radio, Business Unit Networks, and has also held a role of Expert in Radio Access Architecture at Ericsson Research, as well as been the Head of Ericsson’s delegation to 3GPP RAN for WCDMA, HSPA and LTE standardization.

Per Beming joined Ericsson Research in 1994 and holds a MSc in Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering from the Linköping University