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 Gerard Pogorel
Gérard Pogorel is Professor of Economics and Management at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, (ENST) in Paris, France. He is the joint author of a new book, The Radio Spectrum, and has published widely on the subject including the WIK-BNetzA report: Towards More Flexible Spectrum Regulation (Bonn, 2005, co-author). He is a regular speaker at conferences and work- shops across Europe and was Scientific Advisor for the EU-IST project “Spectrum Policies and Radio Technologies for Viable Wireless Services (SPORT VIEWS)”.
Amit Nagpal
Amit is a partner at Aetha Consulting with over 15 years of experience of advising fixed and mobile operators, regulators/government bodies, financial institutions and equipment manufacturers on commercial, technical and regulatory issues. He has particular expertise in spectrum valuation and has led numerous high-profile studies in the area of radio spectrum policy for clients including the European Commission. Amit holds an M.Sc. in Radio Frequency and Communications Engineering from the University of Bradford and an M.B.A. from the University of Warwick, UK. He has been a partner at Analysys Mason as well as working for Deloitte Consulting, Smith System Engineering and the UK Radiocommunications Agency (now part of Ofcom).
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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