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INTERNATIONAL
Interview with
Doreen BogdanmMartin d
Chief Strategic Planning and Membership Department
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
She is the chief of the strategic plan- empower, she sees the opportunities In ITU we have a different or-
fling and membership department at rather than the drawbacks. In other ganizational structure than in the
ITU. She is the one who oversees all words, she looks beyond the actual other UN agencies. We have three
(Radio communications,
the governance and communications applications of technology towards sectors
functions within the organization. the positive change that information Standardization, and Develop-
So whether it concerns external rela- and communication technologies ment) that form the Union. Unlike
tions with Member States, the United - or ICTs - can leverage in achieving other UN organizations all five of
Nations, the private sector or other better living conditions for us all. our highest ranking officials - the
members of the ITU constituency, Despite her busy schedule in the of- Secretary-General, the Deputy
Ms Bogdan is, one way or another, a fice and at home managing her four Secretary-General and the three
pivotal person at the ITU. She is also active teenagers, she took time to directors heading the sectors are
the Executive Secretary for the UN meet with us, and to answer all our elected by the 193 Member States.
Broadband Commission for Sustain- questions. So let us leave the floor to Under these elected officials, we
able Development, a high-powered Ms Bogdan. have the civil servants, and within
commission dedicated to bringing this category the highest civil serv-
the benefits of broadband to all. Q: Congratulations. How does itfeel to ant is D2. So I am the first woman
be the highest ranking woman in ITU? to achieve a D2 positon in ITU.
Discrete, hardworking and extremely It's very exciting and extremely chal- Altogether we are four D2, three
dedicated to the potential of "tech" to lenging. male colleagues and me.
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