Doreen Bogdan-Martin | |
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Secretary General of the International Telecommunication Union | |
Assumed office 1 January 2023 | |
Deputy | Tomas Lamanauskas |
Preceded by | Houlin Zhao |
Personal details | |
Born | 1966 (age 57–58) Monmouth County, New Jersey, U.S. |
Education | University of Delaware (BA) American University (MA) |
Doreen Bogdan-Martin (born 1966) is an international civil servant and current Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union. She was elected at the 2022 ITU Plenipotentiary Conference in Bucharest, and as the first woman in the 157-year history of the ITU to become the Secretary-General. Previously, she was the first woman to become an Elected Official of the ITU, as the Director of the Telecommunication Development Bureau of the ITU (the Secretariat of ITU-D).