Raimundo Beca

Country:	Chili
Email:	rbeca [at] ctc.cl

Raimundo Beca is currently a partner at Imaginacción, a Chilean consulting company, and is on the board of several companies, including Puerto San Vicente Talcahuano and Telefónica Mundo 188.

Education

He holds a Civil Engineering degree from the Catholic University of Chile and a Master's degree in mathematical economics from the University of Paris VI, Pierre et Marie Curie.

Work

Prior to joining Imaginacción in 2003, he worked as the CRO of Telefónica CTC Chile, the Chilean local incumbent telephone company, for 11 years. During his tenure at CTC, the company became the leading provider of long distance, mobile, data networks, and ISP markets.

Prior to joining Telefónica CTC Chile in 1992, Raimundo spent two years as a Regional Expert in information technologies at ECLAC, the UN’s regional economic agency for Latin America and the Caribbean. At ECLAC, he drafted a Green Book on information technologies policies; which included a Decalogue on best practices for telecommunication's privatization, and set an ambitious target of 20% penetration of telephone premises in the region, by the year 2000.

Prior to joining ECLAC, he was the “Chargé de Mission” at the French Minister of Industry for 13 years. There Raimundo led the development of the national online data industry. He was also largely involved, as a French delegate to the OCDE and the European Commission, on the early international debate on the information society, in the late 70’s; Raimundo was thus involved in the first rulings in the fields of data privacy, data security, access to public files, and software’s intellectual property rights.

Mr. Beca has also worked as a researcher and professor of econometrics at the University of Chile, CEO of ECOM, the largest Chilean software house and data processing company in the early 70’s, and the chief engineer at SERTI, a top level French software house.

Prior to joining the ICANN Board, Raimundo has been a member of the Address Council, NIC Chile's Steering Committee, and the LACNIC’s Board.

Raimundo Beca was appointed to the ICANN Board by the Address Support Organization for a term that expired at the annual meeting of 2006.