Mr Mohamed Amine Benizane

Board Member, World Broadband Association (WBBA) and Head of Technology, at Algérie Télécom

Speaker

Mohamed Amine Benziane is the vice-chairman of ITU-T Study Group 15 that deals with Networks, technologies and infrastructures for Transport, access and home, he also served as ITU-D vice-rapporteur for the 2017 – 2021 cycle, where he dealt with aspects of broadband deployment strategies and policies in developing countries.

Mohamed has represented Algeria in various ITU major conferences and meetings, such as, the World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly(WTSA), the World Telecommunication Development Conferences (WTDC), ITU Council (ITU governing body) and the ITU Plenipotentiary conferences (ITU higher decision making body), where he was Vice-Chairman of the steering committee of the 2022 ITU Plenipotentiary Conference (PP-22).

He also served as African Telecommunication Union (ATU) consultant for the 2022 ITU Plenipotentiary Conference (PP-22) preparatory process for the African region, where he was in charge of defining the region’s strategy and approach to the conference.

He is currently Head of Technology Watch Unit at Algérie Télécom, overseeing SDOs technical standards, including ITU, and has more than 10 years’ experience in telecommunications engineering.

Mohamed Amine Benziane is a State Engineer in electronics and he holds an MBA.