Dr. Rajesh Bansal
Dr. Rajesh Bansal is the Head of Nokia Siemens Networks’ Village Connection Program. 
NSN Village Connection provides ultra low cost mobile connectivity for remote rural communities. Raj’s current responsibilities include managing the execution of the Village Connection Program, development of the Village Connection solution, and the deployment of Village Connection pilot projects in rural regions.
From 2002-2004 Raj served as a General Manager at Nokia Venture Partners, a venture capital firm investing in mobile and IP-related start-up businesses and technologies globally. Raj’s prior experience includes working as Site Manager for Nokia Research Center in Boston, Massachusetts, and in Mountainview, California, (1998- 2001), and directing the Internet Telephony and Internet Security Research and Standardization portfolio for Nokia. Raj has also served as a Senior Research Manager for Nokia, initiating and establishing research collaboration programs with universities. Prior to joining Nokia, Raj was a Technical Staff Member at AT&T Bell Labora- tories. 
Raj has a B. Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and an Executive MBA from Boston University.

Valerie D’Costa
Ms D’Costa is infoDev’s Program Manager. She most recently served as Director of the International Division at the Info-Communication Development Authority of Singapore – the government agency charged with the development, promotion and regulation of Singapore’s ICT sector.
Ms D’Costa has had a distinguished career in private legal practice and in government service. She holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from the National University of Singapore and a Master of Laws degree from University College, University of London. In her previous position, Ms D’Costa was responsible for the formulation of the Singapore Government’s policies on international ICT issues and oversees bilateral relations with other countries on ICT issues. She has a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities related to the ICT4D agenda and leads infoDev’s efforts to advance the role that ICTs can play in fighting poverty and empowering people. 

Roque Gagliano
Currently a Network Architect at ANTEL, Uruguayan ISP, where he works on the planning of its IP/MPLS network.   He is currently coordinating the NAPLA (NAP of Latin America) mailing list and the eLAC2007 infrastructure group. He is also associated to the Universidad de la República where he teaches undergraduate and graduate level classes. Previously he held a Network Engineering position at Sprint. 
He holds a Master degree form the University of Kansas and an Electrical Engineering degree from the Universidad de la República. He also is a former Fulbright Scholar. 

Anita Gurumurthy
Anita Gurumurthy is a founder member and Executive Director of IT for Change. She has worked in areas of gender equality and health, apart from information society issues. She has co-authored case studies for UNDP which were inputted into the work of the WSIS Task Force on Financial Mechanisms; she has undertaken research for UNIFEM on gender and ICT projects; and authored a primer on gender and ICTs for the Institute of Development Studies. As a part of a project backed by the WSIS Gender Caucus and IDRC, she led a multi-country study of key issues involved in the area of ICTs and women's empowerment.
She has been actively involved with the WSIS process, submitting statements and position papers on development and gender concerns. She was a part of the steering committee of the Gender Caucus for WSIS, and its Asia-Pacific coordinator. She is at present coordinating a Community of Expertise under UN-GAID on 'Gender, Development and Information Society Policies'. She is the co-coordinator of two projects at IT for Change - the 'Information Society for the South' research and advocacy program and the 'Information Society Watch' program. She is at present heading a research activity for developing policy analysis and briefs on gender and ICT policy for the Asia Pacific division of UNDP's HDR Unit.

Mike Jensen
Mike Jensen is an ICT consultant with experience in over 40 developing countries (mainly in Africa) assisting in the establishment of information and communications systems over the last 20 years. He provides advice to international development agencies, the private sector, NGOs and governments in the formulation, management and evaluation of their Internet and telecommunication projects. Often acting as a resource person and public speaker on their behalf at international meetings, he focusses on policy and technology developments in rural telecommunication projects, community access, fibre, wireless and satellite connectivity.
Mr Jensen is currently a part-time Knowledge Analyst for the Canadian government's IDRC Acacia Programme. He is also a member of the International Advisory Board for the Netherland's International Institute for Communications and Development (IICD), on the board of the South African NGO - SangoNet - and was a member of the African Conference of Ministers' High Level Working Group which developed the African Information Society Initiative (AISI) in 1996.

Sam Paltridge
Sam Paltridge is in the Directorate of Science Technology and Industry, for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). He joined the OECD as a communication analyst in the division of information computer and communications policy in 1993. His recent work in communication has been on broadband infrastructure as well as Internet issues such as international traffic exchange. He has been a principal author of the Communications Outlook series between the 1995 and 2005 editions; and, in 2005, was appointed principal administrator of ICT statistics in the OECD's Economic Analysis and Statistics Division. At the beginning of 2007 he transferred to the OECD's Information, Computer and Communications Policy Division and is currently part of the team preparing the Ministerial on the "Future of the Internet Economy" to take place in Seoul, Korea (17-18 June 2008).
Between 1999 and 2005, Dr Paltridge was the OECD's representative on the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers' (ICANN) Government Advisory Committee (GAC) and, as such, was one of the founding members of the GAC. Sam has also served in a number of advisory roles to governments, such as the Australian Government's Broadband Advisory Group, and he is a former member of the organising committee for the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC) held each year in Washington. Sam's work with the OECD involves working closely with other international organisations on ICT policy and, in 2005, he chaired the International Telecommunication Union's World Meeting on telecommunication/ICT Indicators. He is currently the OECD's representative to the Internet Governance Forum and serves on the International Advisory Board of LirneAsia.

Jacquelynn Ruff
Jacquelynn (Jackie) Ruff is Vice President – International Public Policy and Regulatory Affairs for Verizon Communications. In addition to being a leading communications provider in the U.S., Verizon has a strong global presence. Ms. Ruff leads the group that is responsible for public policy development, advocacy, and guidance around international issues. She directs Verizon’s global policy work within U.S. and international forums, such as the International Telecommunication Union, APEC-Tel, and the OECD. She represents Verizon on advisory committees to the U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy at the Department of State and to the U.S. Trade Representative, and on the Board of the U.S. Telecom Training Institute. Ms. Ruff served in government at the International Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and on the staff of a United States Senate Committee. She also practiced law with the communications and the Latin America groups of an international law firm.

Richard Sambrook
Richard Sambrook is Director of the BBC's Global News division, responsible for leading the BBC's international news services across radio, television and new media. He is a member of the BBC's Executive Direction Board and the BBC's Journalism Board.  Previously as Director of BBC News from 2001 to 2004, Richard led the world’s biggest broadcast news operation. Prior to that, from 1999 to 2001, he was Deputy Director of the News division. During his career in BBC News, Richard has worked as a producer and programme editor on the BBC's national TV news programmes. In 1996 Richard was appointed Head of Newsgathering and led a major expansion of the BBC's overseas news capability, creating a network of "hub" bureaux in key regions around the world and building the BBC's live broadcasting capability. Richard's first job with the BBC was in 1980 as a sub-editor in the radio newsroom.

Johan Wibergh
President of Market Unit Brazil, Ericsson Brazil
Johan has several years of experience in these fields of telecom services. Starting at Ericsson in 1996, he has held various positions within Ericsson’s units such as been responsible for Managed & Support Services in Ericsson Global Services, which ranges from basic hardware and software support up to complete outsourcing of operators technical organization.
He has also hold a position as responsible for Ericsson’s professional services business in Latin America. Prior to his positions in Ericsson, Johan has worked nine years with development of data communication products, build-up of Systems Integration and consulting business in the IT industry.
Johan holds a Master Degree in Computer Science and is Post-Graduated in Executive Management Program. He is also fluent in Swedish and English.