Professor Martin Cave
Martin Cave is the Director of the Centre for Management under Regulation at Warwick University Business School. For the UK government he has carried out the Independent Review of Spectrum Management (2002) which led to the introduction of spectrum trading as well as completing an audit of public sector spectrum holdings in 2005. Professor Cave has advised a wide range of governments and regulators as well as the World Bank and was a member of the UK Competition Commission from 1996 to 2002. He has written 139 books and articles, including The Essentials of Modern Spectrum Management (2007) with William Webb and Chris Doyle.
Professor Gérard Pogorel
Gérard Pogorel is Professor of Economics and Management, at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, (ENST) in Paris, France. He has published numerous articles, books, and reports including: Towards More Flexible Spectrum Regulation WIK-BNetzA report (Bonn, 2005, co-author), Radio Spectrum Policy and Management - A Turning Point, He is a regular speaker at conferences and workshops across Europe and was Scientific
Advisor for the EU-IST project “Spectrum Policies and Radio
Technologies for Viable Wireless Services (SPORT VIEWS)”.
Professor William Webb
William Webb is Head of Research and Development and Senior
Technologist for the UK regulator, Ofcom. He also leads some of the
major reviews conducted by Ofcom including the Spectrum Framework
Review and Ultra-Wideband Consultation. He has worked for Motorola and
a range of communications consultancies in the fields of hardware
design, computer simulation, propagation modelling, spectrum management
and strategy development. William Webb has published eight books
(including The Essentials of Modern Spectrum Management), sixty papers,
and four patents. He is a Visiting Professor at Surrey University and a
Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Richard Womersley
Richard
Womersley has an honours degree in Electrical and Electronic
Engineering accompanied by over 15 years consulting, operational and
business experience in the fields of radio spectrum management, public
telecoms and digital broadcasting. He is an experienced trainer and has
conducted consultancy projects for regulators, operators, governments
and end-users on issues covering national and international policy;
regulation and its implications; pricing, auctions and licensing;
service and technology roll-out; and interference. His work has spanned
Europe (including the European Commission, EBU, Ofcom and the UK
Government), the Middle East, the Caribbean, the Americas, Africa,
South Asia, East Asia and Australasia.
Martin Sims
Martin Sims is a journalist and academic who specialises in
communications policy issues. He set up PolicyTracker, the spectrum
policy newsletter and has published articles on many facets of the
subject. His work has been published in academic journals and books and
he is a former editor of Intermedia, the policy journal of the
International Institute of Communications. As a journalist he was a
news editor in independent radio then worked for BBC network news. He
has an honours degree and a masters degree in communication studies and
lectures at the University of East London.
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