‘m Regional Director for Infrastructure and Connectivity, primarily working in the Asia and the Pacific region. I carry a professional appetite to work with people and build Internet infrastructure and networks to connect the unconnected. I have been lucky to fulfil this appetite over the years, working with various communities in various capacities and through diverse projects.
Dr. Muhammad Mukaram Khan
Director General, CVD, PTA
Dr. Mukaram Khan is working as Director General Cyber Vigilance at Pakistan Telecommunication Authority. He is a Software Engineer from NUST and holds MPhil and PhD from the university of Manchester in Information Security and Super Computing respectively. He is a cyber security professional with CISSP to his credit, besides various technical certifications.
Before this assignment, he has been working as CTO Pakistan Army and worked in various capacities to manage datacenters, designing enterprise architectures and leading nation-wide IT/cyber security projects. He is also associated with NUST as part-time academic to teach and supervise postgrad research in the areas of cyber security, AI, blockchain and system engineering.
Parvez Iftikhar
ICT Policy and Regulation Consultant
With more than 40 years of experience, Parvez Iftikhar is currently providing consulting services on ICT Policy and Regulation in various countries, mainly through global organizations like World Bank, ITU, DFID, USAID, and international consulting houses. Parvez has been the founding CEO of Universal Service Fund (USF) Pakistan (under the Ministry of IT), and the country-head of Siemens “Com” in Pakistan. He has been on sabbaticals to Carnegie Mellon, and Harvard Kennedy School, USA, and Oxford University UK. He received extensive technical and managerial training at Siemens, mainly in Europe. Parvez is also a member of Pakistan Prime Minister’s Task Force on IT and Telecom
Ch. Mudassar Naveed
CEO, Universal Service Fund
CEO, Universal Service Fund
Muhammad Shabbir
President of Internet Society Accessibility Special Interest Group
Mr. Muhammad Shabbir Awan is Founding President of Internet Society Accessibility Special Interest Group (Accessibility SIG) and member board of directors ISOC Pakistan Islamabad Chapter. Professionally a researcher in the domain of strategic studies, he is also pursuing his PhD in International Relations. Working in the domains of international relations and internet governance, Shabbir has a number of publications and international fellowships on his credit. He has also been working for the organizations of persons with disabilities since 1997 as a volunteer. Leading the working group on accessibility for persons with disabilities, Mr. Awan along with other representatives of PWDs, helped MOIT draft “Digital Pakistan” policy 2018. He is also the member of Pakistan School on Internet Governance (PKSIG) Steering Committee, Multi Stakeholder Group (MSG) of Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (APRIGF), International Political Science Association (IPSA), Islamabad Council on World Affairs (ICWA), and member of Multi Stakeholder Group of Pakistan Internet Governance Forum.
Ahmed Bakhat Masood
Director (Cyber Security) in Pakistan Telecom Authority (PTA)
Ahmed Bakhat Masood is currently working as Deputy Director (Cyber Security) in Pakistan Telecom Authority (PTA), previously worked in PTCL and Instaphone. By qualification, he is MS Telecom & Networks, Master in Computer Science (MCS), Lead auditor ISO 27001, MCSE. Mr. Ahmed played a pivotal role in establishment of Pakistan IXP, in making consensus amongst all stakeholders of IXP in Pakistan and currently working as secretary to IXP board. He remained Chair of Task Force on Arabic Internationalized Domain Names (TF-AIDN), a subgroup of ICANN, from July 2017 to June 2020. He also remained a member of the Program Committee of the Middle East DNS Forum, ICANN for four from 2015 to 2018. He is currently a member of the steering committee of pkSIG since 2016 and managing secretariat. Apart from other achievements, Mr. Ahmed played a vital role in the success of South Asian Network Operators Group (SANOG) 29, at Islamabad Pakistan.
Waqas Hassan
Regional Lead for Asia, GDIP
Waqas is the Regional Lead for Asia at the Global Digital Inclusion Partnership (GDIP), supporting the Women in the Digital Economy Fund (WiDEF). Waqas is a public policy and stakeholder engagement expert, having led the international collaborations and partnerships of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) before joining GDIP.
He is passionate about all-inclusive digital transformation, social inclusion, community projects, inclusive policy and regulatory processes, and capacity building. In addition to PTA’s landmark ‘Digital Gender Inclusion Strategy’, Waqas has carried out numerous projects on increasing connectivity, policy and regulatory interventions, digital skills, online child protection, and web accessibility for persons with disabilities.
He is an active contributor to the internet governance community on the national, regional, and international levels. He is the former Vice-Chair of the Multistakeholder Group of the Asia-Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF) and the current Vice-Chair of the Asia-Pacific School on Internet Governance (APSIG). He was the President of the Internet Society Pakistan Islamabad Chapter for four years and the former Vice-Chair of its Board of Directors.
Waqas holds a Master’s degree in international relations from SZABIST University Islamabad and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Information Technology from Curtin University, Australia. Waqas believes in an open, secure, and all-inclusive internet and would love to connect for community empowerment through meaningful interventions.
Fahd Batayneh
Stakeholder Engagement Director- Middle East
Fahd Batayneh has been part of the ICANN world since the summer of 2008 where he was active in a number of ICANN working groups. In October 2013, he joined ICANN Org as part of the Global Stakeholder Engagement Team (GSE) supporting the Middle East. Today, he is deeply involved in a number of regional projects that promote ICANN‘s work in the region. He holds a BSc in Computer Engineering with honors, and an MBA. He is happily married and has 3 kids, and calls Amman, Jordan his home.
Naveed Haq
Regional Director, Infrastructure and Connectivity, Internet Society
Muhammad Adil Ali
Section Manager, Fauji Fertilizer Company Ltd
Mr Muhammad Adil Ali has been volunteering for Pakistan School on Internet Governance since long. He served multiple tenures as office bearer of Internet Society Pakistan Islamabad Chapter. Helped in organizing and conducting multiple editions of pkSIG along with different other events under the umbrella of ISOC Islamabad Chapter. He is serving in Fauji Fertilizer Company as Executive – Information Systems. He is certified in different Microsoft, Cisco, SAP and Information Security Domains.
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