The Plenipotentiary Conference (PP) is the supreme organ of the

International Telecommunication Union The International Telecommunication Union is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for many matters related to information and communication technologies. It was established on 17 May 1865 as the International Telegraph Unio ...

(ITU), it is a treaty-making conference. It is composed of all 193 ITU Member states and meets every four years. The Conference determines the policies, direction and activities of the ITU, as well as electing the members of other ITU organs, and positions at the secretariat, namely the Secretary-General, the Deputy Secretary-General, and the Directors of the Radiocommunication, Standardization, and Development Bureaux.

Sessions

PP-14

The 2014 Plenipotentiary Conference (PP-14) was held 20 October to 7 November 2014 in

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PP-18

The 2018 Plenipotentiary Conference (PP-18) was held from 29 October until 16 November in

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). The conference elected the following ITU officers at the secretariat: * Secretary-General:

Houlin Zhao Houlin Zhao ( zh, 赵厚麟) is the Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). He was first elected at the 2014 Plenipotentiary Conference in Busan, and re-elected at the 2018 Plenipotentiary Conference in Dubai. ITU is ...

(2nd term) * Deputy Secretary-General: Malcolm Johnson (2nd term) * Director of the Radiocommunication Bureau: Mario Maniewicz (1st term) * Director of the Standardization Bureau:

Chaesub Lee Chaesub Lee PhD ( Korean: 이재섭) is the Director of ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, the permanent secretariat of the International Telecommunication Union Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) and as such, an Under-Sec ...

(2nd term) * Director of the Development Bureau: Doreen Bogdan-Martin (1st term)

PP-22

The 2022 Plenipotentiary Conference (PP-22) was held from 26 September until 8 October in

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. It elected Doreen Bogdan-Martin to serve as ITU Secretary General and Tomas Lamanauskas to serve as ITU Deputy Secretary-General for 2023-2026.

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(of Uruguay) was elected for a second term. Seizo Onoe (of Japan) was elected Director of the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (the Secretariat of

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