The Plenipotentiary Conference (PP) is the supreme organ of the
International Telecommunication Union (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
Busan (
Republic of Korea).
PP-18
The 2018 Plenipotentiary Conference (PP-18) was held from 29 October until 16 November in
Dubai (
United Arab Emirates).
The conference elected the following ITU officers at the secretariat:
* Secretary-General:
Houlin Zhao (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 (2nd term)
* Director of the Development Bureau:
Doreen Bogdan-Martin
Doreen Bogdan-Martin (born 1966) is the 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 ...
(1st term)
PP-22
The 2022 Plenipotentiary Conference (PP-22) was held from 26 September until 8 October in
Bucharest,
Romania. It elected
Doreen Bogdan-Martin
Doreen Bogdan-Martin (born 1966) is the 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 ...
to serve as ITU Secretary General and Tomas Lamanauskas to serve as ITU Deputy Secretary-General for 2023-2026.
Mario Maniewicz (of Uruguay) was elected for a second term.
Seizo Onoe
Seizo Onoe, a Japanese telecommunication executive, is the Director of the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau of the International Telecommunication Union, the Secretariat of ITU-T. Onoe was elected to the post of Director of the TSB for the ...
(of Japan) was elected Director of the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (the Secretariat of
ITU-T).
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