MOHAMED NASSER AL GHANIM

Director General – Telecommunications Regulatory Authority
HE Mohamed Nasser Al Ghanim is the Director General of the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA). Described as a telecom and ICT veteran and one of the few highly experienced telecom engineers in the UAE, Al Ghanim was entrusted with establishing a telecom regulatory body in the UAE in 2004. In 2006 and under Al Ghanim’s leadership, TRA licensed the second telecom operator in the UAE; thus putting an end to a thirty year monopoly and opening the UAE market to fair competition in the telecom sector. Al Ghanim is a Board member of National Media Council, he chairs the Spectrum Coordination Committee (SCC) in charge of setting the national spectrum plan; he’s also the Chairman of the UAE World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) committee in charge of follow up on the implementation of the WSIS.