Chaesub Lee
Chaesub Lee | |
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이재섭 | |
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| Director Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (ITU-T) | |
| Assumed office 1 January 2015 | |
| Deputy | Reinhard Scholl |
| Personal details | |
| Nationality | Korean |
Chaesub Lee PhD (Korean: 이재섭) is a telecommunication executive who served as the Director of ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, the permanent secretariat of the International Telecommunication Union Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) from 2015 until 2022.
Early career
[edit]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
[edit]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 ITU-T Study Group 13 "Future Networks and Cloud" (SG13) from 2001 until 2008, after which he became Chairman of that group in 2009.
Director Telecommunication Standardization Bureau
[edit]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 ITU-T Study Group 13 on network standards, ITU-T Study Group 16 on multimedia standards, and ITU-T Study Group 17 on security standards, as well as the various Focus Groups, such as the ITU-WHO Focus Group on Artificial Intelligence for Health and the Focus Group on Machine Learning for 5G, which developed Y.3172.
References
[edit]- ^ 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.