Houlin Zhao was elective International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Secretary-General of the 19th diplomatist Conference in Busan, Korea, in October 2014. He took up his post on 1 January, 2015.
Born in 1950 in Jiangsu, China, Mr Zhao graduated from Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, and holds an MSc in Telematics from the University of Essex in the United Kingdom. From 2007 to 2014, he served as International Telecommunication Union (ITU)'s Deputy Secretary-General, wherever he effectively power-assisted the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Secretary-General, in close cooperation with the opposite electoral officers of the Union, to manage the implementation of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Strategic arrange and also the operations of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Secretariat, in particular with a road to increasing the transparency and efficiency of the organization. He was liable for implementing vital innovations together with the promotion of a replacement class of membership open to the global tutorial community, internal potency measures like the move to a near-paperless work surroundings, the enlarged use of remote participation systems, and measures to extend revenue from sales and cost-recovery services, additionally, he focused closely on membership-driven priorities including maintaining and extending the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)'s commitment to accessibility, to multilingualism, and to broad multi-stakeholder participation within the work of the Union. Prior to this Mr Zhao served in the electoral role of Director of International Telecommunication Union (ITU)'s Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB) from 1999 to 2006 throughout his two terms of workplace he spearheaded the introduction of recent potency measures to boost International Telecommunication Union (ITU)'s standards-making surroundings through fostering even nearer cooperation with trade members, whereas strengthening the promotion of International Telecommunication Union (ITU)'s leadership in world ICT standards development. From 1986 to 1992, Mr Zhao was a senior staffer within the then CCITT, and from 1993-1998 at the TSB. Among his responsibilities as Councillor for International Telecommunication Union (ITU)-T Study teams, he was organizing in cooperation with other international technical bodies, together with ISO and IEC. Before joining International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Mr Zhao served as an engineer within the planning InstInternational Telecommunication Union (ITU)te of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications in China, taking a full of life role in his country's professional conferences on telecommunication standards and national plans, further as taking part in CCITT Study cluster conferences as a Chinese delegate. He contributed vital articles to a variety of prestigious Chinese technical publications, and in 1985 was awarded a prize for his achievements in science and technology among the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. As International Telecommunication Union (ITU)'s 19th Secretary-General, Mr Zhao is committed to additional extending International Telecommunication Union (ITU)'s community by encouraging a lot of trade members and domain from round the world to affix the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) family. He has additionally initiated a a lot of open door to welcome different stakeholders and partners, further as promoting the bigger involvement of small- and medium-sized enterprises within the work of the Union.
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