User:Waqas Hassan

Waqas is Assistant Director (International Liaison & Training) at the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority. He has regulatory experience of over 14 years that includes international coordination, stakeholder engagement, ICT development analysis, ICT indicators review, Internet Governance, mobile money and civil society engagement. He is an active volunteer for internet development and the President of Internet Society Pakistan Islamabad Chapter. Waqas is a DIPLO, APrIGF2017 and APSIG2017 fellow, ISOC's SANOG fellow, ISOC chapter fellow to ICANN60 and LIRNEasia's Young Scholar on ICT Policy and Research. He has collaborated with various international organizations to hold ICT events and foreign training opportunities for the organization. He has also documented the national and regional ICT Policy developments for various publications and analytical reports for PTA. Waqas also contributes as a member of various Internet and telecom expert groups such as ITU's Expert Group on ICT Household Indictors and ITU's Expert Group on Telecommunication and ICT Indicator, APrIGF MSG. He has been a key member of IG capacity building events in Pakistan such as National Broadband Forum, INET Islamabad, Pakistan Digital forum, Disaster Management using ICTs, Mobile App Awards, ICT Indicators Symposium. He holds a Master's Degree in Business Administration as well as Bachelor's Degree in Business Information Technology of Curtin University, Australia.