Chaesub Lee
Chaesub Lee PhD | |
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Director Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (ITU-T) | |
Assumed office 1 January 2015 | |
Deputy | Reinhard Scholl |
Personal details | |
Nationality | Korean |
Website | https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/tsbdir/ |
Chaesub Lee PhD (Korean: 이재섭) is the Director of ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, the permanent secretariat of the International Telecommunication Union Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) and as such, an Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Early career[]
In 1986 Lee started working at Korea Telecom, where he worked for 17 years.[1] Following this, Lee worked at Korea's Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) for eight years.
ITU involvement[]
Lee was the Chairman of the ITU-T Focus Group Next-Generation Networks (FG-NGN), as well as the Vice-Chairman of the ITU-T Focus Group IPTV.[1]
Lee served as Vice-Chairman of "Future Networks and Cloud" (SG13) from 2001 until 2008, after which he became Chairman of that group in 2009.
Director Telecommunication Standardization Bureau[]
Lee was elected at the 2014 Plenipotentiary Conference in Busan (Republic of Korea), with the term beginning on January 1, 2015.[2][3] At the 2018 ITU Plenipotentiary Conference in Dubai, Lee was elected to a second term. As Director, Lee oversees the Standardization work undertaken by the ITU-T Study Groups, such as on network standards, ITU-T Study Group 16 on multimedia standards, and on security standards, as well as the various Focus Groups, such as the ITU-WHO Focus Group on Artificial Intelligence for Health and the , which developed Y.3172.
References[]
- ^ a b "Chaesub LEE". www.itu.int. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
- ^ "Biography of Mr Chaesub Lee, Director of ITU's Telecommunication Standardization Bureau". www.itu.int. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
- ^ Nations, United. "Standards Build Trust: How the International Telecommunication Union Supports Inclusive Sustainable Development". United Nations. Archived from the original on 6 April 2021. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
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