1. Doreen Bogdan-Martin was born on 1966 and is an international civil servant and current Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union.
18 Facts About Doreen Bogdan-Martin
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Doreen Bogdan-Martin was elected at the 2022 ITU Plenipotentiary Conference in Bucharest, and as the first woman in the 157-year history of the ITU to become the Secretary-General.
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Doreen Bogdan-Martin holds a post-graduate certification in Strategies for Leadership from the Institute for Management Development in Lausanne, Switzerland, and is certified in Accountability and Ethics by the United Nations Leaders Programme.
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Doreen Bogdan-Martin began her career as a Telecom specialist at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, US Department of Commerce in 1989.
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In 1994, Doreen Bogdan-Martin joined the International Telecommunication Union's Telecommunication Development Bureau as a Policy analyst.
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Doreen Bogdan-Martin was instrumental in the creation of the Global Symposium for Regulators, the only global gathering for the world's ICT regulators; as well as the ICT Regulatory collection tool and portal.
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In January 2008, Doreen Bogdan-Martin became Chief of the Strategic Planning and Membership department, the senior most position in the ITU's General Secretariat, and the first woman to ever occupy this position.
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Doreen Bogdan-Martin advised the ITU Secretary General and oversaw the organisation's Membership, Corporate Communications and External Affairs.
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Doreen Bogdan-Martin served as Secretary to the ITU governing body, and as Coordinator of United Nations affairs for the organization, where she created the ITU liaison office to the UN in New York.
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Doreen Bogdan-Martin served as the Executive Director of the Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development, Co-Founder of the EQUALS Global Partnership to bridge the digital divide, co-creator of the Giga school connectivity program with UNICEF, and creator of the Generation Connect initiative.
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On 29 September 2022, Doreen Bogdan-Martin was elected as the 20th Secretary-General of the ITU at the Plenipotentiary Conference in Bucharest, Romania.
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Doreen Bogdan-Martin received 139 votes out of 172, defeating Russia's Rashid Ismailov.
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Doreen Bogdan-Martin is the first woman to serve as the ITU Secretary-General.
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Doreen Bogdan-Martin is a Generation Unlimited Champion and a Champion of the EDISON Alliance led by the World Economic Forum.
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Doreen Bogdan-Martin previously served as member of the Board of Governors of the UN Staff College, Chair of the United Nations Strategic Planning Group, and Member of the Governing Committee of the Swiss Network for International Studies.
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Doreen Bogdan-Martin is married and has two daughters and two sons.
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Doreen Bogdan-Martin is an active Amateur Radio operator holding callsign KD2JTX and, in 2014, arranged for school students in Switzerland to talk live with astronauts in orbit through Amateur Radio on the International Space Station.
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On 23 September 2021 Doreen Bogdan-Martin was awarded the American University's Outstanding Technology Policy Changemaker Award for technology policy and creating a more just, equitable, and productive society.