A distinguished engineer, leader, and diplomat; multilingual standardization expert and holder of 23 patents, Tunisian born Dr Bilel Jamoussi is the Deputy to the Director and Chief of Telecommunication Standardization Policy Department at the ITU Standardization Bureau (TSB) in Geneva, Switzerland. His primary mission is to establish international standards to promote universal, meaningful connectivity and champion sustainable digital transformation. He also aims to intensify industry engagement, ensure inclusivity in standards development and adoption, and bolster cooperation with other standardization bodies.
Additionally, he is committed to leading in emerging tech discussions, building strategic partnerships, and pursuing organizational excellence. Previously, he was the Chief of the Study Groups Department of ITU Standardization Bureau (TSB) from 2010 and until 31 August 2023. He has led the coordination of the bureau’s standards moving activities into a new era characterized by digital transformation that needs an increased collaboration with vertical sectors such as healthcare, transportation, utility, and banking. His innovative approach has served as a catalyst to launch new standards initiatives related to emerging technologies such as IoT, Blockchain, AI and Quantum, attracting a new wave of memberships from non-traditional players. A standout accomplishment of Dr Jamoussi is his effort in bridging the telecommunications and financial sectors. Through this, he paved the way for the creation of digital payments guidelines and standards that aim to foster financial inclusion on a global scale. Key achievements under his tenure have been important new standards while effectively managing staff by recruiting new talent, improving gender balance, delivering new work methods, and staying within budget.
Prior to 2010, he worked in the private sector for 15 years and held senior executive positions such as Director of Standards for Nortel. In this role he participated in over 90 standards making bodies worldwide. In the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), he authored a number of Internet standards. As an IEEE Senior Member, he was elected to the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) Board of Governors and the IEEE-SA Corporate Advisory Group. He holds a BSc, MSc and PhD degrees in Computer Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University, USA. In addition to his many accomplishments, Dr Bilel Jamoussi is a pivotal figure in the global ICT community. He is a sought-after speaker at tech events worldwide like the Global Cybersecurity Forum (GCF), often taking the stage as a keynote speaker or panellist. His expertise and insights are in high demand by media outlets such as Financial Times, resulting in frequent interviews, podcast features, and media appearances.
Bilel has lived in Tunisia, Canada, USA, and Switzerland, giving him a unique global viewpoint. He is fluent in Arabic, French, and English and speaks some Spanish and German.
Sessions in which Bilel Jamoussi participates
Networking Events
Ms Cecilia Àlvarez Rigaudias, Meta (Participant)
Mr. Pasquale Annicchino, Università di Foggia (Participant)
Francisco Arga e Lima, ELSA (Participant)
Mr Alessandro Bernes, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Participant)
Luca Bolognini, Istituto Italiano per la Privacy e la Valorizzazione dei Dati (Participant)
Prof. Carlo Alberto Carnevale-Maffé, Bocconi University (Participant)
Roberto Cascella, European Cyber Security Organisation (ECSO) (Participant)
Ms Anna Cataleta, P4I - Partners4Innovation - Digital360 (Participant)
Vinton G. Cerf, Google (Participant)
Avv Vincenzo Colarocco, Previti Law Firm (Participant)
Mr Cédric Crettaz, IoT Lab (Participant)
Alessandro Del Ninno, Tonucci & Partners Law Firm (Participant)
Giuseppe Fico, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Participant)
Mr Stefano Fratta, Meta (Participant)
Dr Marie-Louise Gächter, Data Protection Authority of the Principality of Liechtenstein (Participant)
Ms Clarisse Girot, OECD (Participant)
Ms. Urszula Góral, Personal Data Protection Office (Participant)
Thomas Hahn, Siemens AG (Participant)
Ms Katherine Harman-Stokes, Department of Justice (Participant)
Ms Andrea Jelinek, EDPB / DSB (Participant)
Mr Peter Kimpian, Council of Europe (Participant)
Ms. Kari Laumann, Norwegian Data Protection Authority (Participant)
Ms Catherine Lennman, Swiss Data Protection Authority (Participant)
Prof. Francisco Lupiáñez-Villanueva, Predictby (Participant)
Mr Alessandro Mantelero, Polytechnic University of Turin (Participant)
Estelle Massé, Access Now (Participant)
Fabrice Naftalski, Ernst & Young Société d'Avocats (Participant)
Paul Nemitz, European Commission (Participant)
Roberto Obialero, Clusit (Participant)
Mr Enrico Pelino, Grieco Pelino Avvocati (GPA) (Participant)
Dr Attila Péterfalvi, Hungarian National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (Participant)
Ms Alessandra Pierucci, Autorità Garante per la protezione dei dati personali (Participant)
Ms Audrey Plonk, OECD (Participant)
Ms Renáta Radócz, IoTLab (Participant)
Anand Rao, PricewaterhouseCoopers (Participant)
Prof Giovanni Maria Riccio, University of Salerno (Participant)
Ph.D., LL.M. Carlo Rossi Chauvenet, CRCLEX (Participant)
Mr Ralf Sauer, European Commission (Participant)
Dr Stefan Schiffner, BHH University of Applied Sciences (Participant)
Mr Guido Scorza, Garante per la protezione dei dati personali - Italian Data Protection Supervisory Authority (Participant)
Isabelle Servoz-Gallucci, Council of Europe (Participant)
Claudio Telmon, Clusit (Participant)
Ms Cécile Théard-Jallu, International Bar Association (Participant)
Mr Nino Tlapak, DORDA (Participant)
Wojciech Wiewiórowski, European Data Protection Supervisor (Participant)
Sébastien Ziegler, Mandat International / ECCP (Participant)
Ms Selina Zipponi, Dedalus Group (Participant)
Conor Hogan, BSI Group (Participant)
Laure Le Bars, SAP (Participant)
Mr Marco Scialdone, Euroconsumers (Participant)
Mr Waldemar Gonçalves Ortunho Júnior, National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) (Participant)
Bruno Gencarelli, Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers at the European Commission (Participant)
Ms. Elham Tabassi, NIST (Participant)
Ms. Jane Horvath, Apple (Participant)
Mr Rob van Eijk, Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) (Participant)
Ms Karolina Mackiewicz, European Connected Health Alliance (Participant)
Mr Alban Schmutz, OVHcloud (Participant)
Alexander Filip, Data Protection Authority of Bavaria for the Private Sector (Participant)
Mr Gwendal Le Grand, EDPB (European Data Protection Board) (Participant)
Brent Homan, Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (Participant)
Latif Ladid, IPv6 Forum (Participant)
Mr Olivier Guillo, Smart Global Governance (Participant)
Antonio Skarmeta, Universidad de Murcia (Participant)
Mr David Goodman, Trust in Digital Life (Participant)
Joann O´Brien, TM Forum (Participant)
Eva Fogelström, Ericsson (Participant)
Kai Rannenberg, Goethe University (Participant)
Ms Magdalena Kogut, Timelex (Participant)
Mr James Joshi, US National Science Foundation (Participant)
Ms. Federica Paolucci, ELSA International (Participant)
Tanya Suarez, BlueSpecs/AIOTI (Participant)
Mr Joe Jones, IAPP (Participant)
Steve Wood, PrivacyX Consulting (Participant)
Mr Renato Opice Blum, Opice Blum, Bruno e Vainzof Advogados (Participant)
Ms. Heidi Kivekäs, National Cyber Security Centre of Finland (Participant)
Bilel Jamoussi, ITU/AI4GOOD (Participant)
Mr Gurdip Singh, National Science Foundation (Participant)
Dr Ana Brian Nougrères, OHCHR (Participant)
Ms. Blanca Lilia Ibarra Cadena, National Institute for Transparency Access to Information and Personal Data Protection (Participant)
Mr Norman Barbosa, Microsoft (Participant)
Ms Silvia Stefanelli, Clusit (Participant)
Andrea Stazi, Google (Participant)
Ms Laura Liguori, Portolano Cavallo (Participant)
Ms Fernanda Faini, Università Telematica Pegaso (Participant)
Mr Rosario Imperiali D'Afflitto, Officine Dati (Participant)
Mr Diego Fulco, Istituto Italiano per la Privacy e la Valorizzazione dei Dati (Participant)
Mr Rocco Panetta, IAPP (Participant)
Geert Somers, Timelex (Participant)
Jaap-Henk Hoepman, Radboud University (Participant)
Ms Nadia Arnaboldi, CEDPO/ASSO DPO (Participant)
Fabiana Zollo, Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Participant)
Teresa Scantamburlo, Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia (Participant)
Prof. Fabrizio Marrella, Ca' Foscari University (Participant)
Tim Jacquemard, Trilateral Research (Participant)
Julie Brill, Microsoft (Participant)
Cornelia Kutterer, Microsoft (Participant)
Patrick Wetterwald, Cisco (Participant)
Ms Florence Raynal, Pernod Ricard (Participant)
Alexander Seger, Council of Europe (Participant)
Ms. Anna Fielder, EDRI (Participant)
Pierre Chastanet, European Commission DG Connect (Participant)
Mr Olivier Micol, European Commission - Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers (Participant)
Anne Josephine Flanagan, WEF (Participant)
Duncan Brown, IDC (Participant)
Yiannos Tolias, European Commission (Participant)
Prof Leandro Pecchia, UniRoma (Participant)
Mr Paolo Balboni, Maastricht University - European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity (ECPC) (Participant)
Mr. Giulio Maggiore, Telecom Italia (Participant)
Ms Jana Pattynová, EFDPO (Participant)
Fabrizio Venturelli, WORKDAY (Participant)
Mr Spiros Tassis, EFDPO (Participant)
Ms. Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology (Participant)
Aleksandra Korolova, USC (Participant)
Norman Sadeh, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) (Participant)
Fulvio Sarzana di S. Ippolito, International University UniNettuno of Rome (Participant)
Ms. Cristina Schulman, Cybercrime Convention Committee (Participant)
Avv. Nicola Fabiano, Studio Legale Fabiano (Participant)
Mr Cosimo Monda, European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity (ECPC) (Participant)
Mr Massimo Marelli, International Committee of the Red Cross (Participant)
Mr Aaron Martin, Tilburg Law School (Participant)
Mr John Magee, DLA Piper Ireland LLP (Participant)
Mr Giulio Coraggio, DLA Piper (Participant)
Mr Giangiacomo Olivi, Dentons Europe Studio Legale Tributario (Participant)
Mr Agostino Ghiglia, Italian Data Protection Supervisory Authority (Participant)
Mr Peter Winn, US Department of Justice Office of Privacy and Civil Liberties (Participant)
Daniele Canavese, Politecnico di Torino (Participant)
Afonso Ferreira, CNRS (Participant)
Sunil Chaudhary, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) (Participant)
Vasileios Gkioulos, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) (Participant)
Carlos Esteban Budde, University of Trento (Participant)
Giuseppe Manco (Participant)
Shukun Tokas, SINTEF DIGITAL (Participant)
Laurens Sion, KU Leuven (Participant)
Médéric Collas, Informatique Banque Populaire (Participant)
Stephan Krenn, Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT) (Participant)
Juan Carlos, Atos Spain (Participant)
Carlos Abellan, QuSide (Participant)
Martina Ottavi, Thales Alenia Space (Participant)
Lutz Peschke, Bilkent University (Participant)
Athanasios Drougkas, EU Agency for Cybersecurity - ENISA (Participant)
Mr Lucio Scudiero, Legance (Participant)
Frans Folkvord, PandeVita (Participant)
Ms. Marit Hansen, Unabhängiges Landeszentrum für Datenschutz (ULD) (Participant)
Tommaso Stranieri, Deloitte Risk Advisory (Participant)
Mr Andrea Rigoni, Deloitte (Participant)
Mr Valerio Sudrio, Usercentrics (Participant)
Mr Stefano Leucci, STELLANTIS (Participant)
Ms. Eleni Diamanti, CNRS (Participant)
Simone Capeleto, ThinkQuantum (Participant)
Stefano Rinauro, Polizia di Stato (Participant)
Adam Smith, Boston University (Participant)
Mario Maawad, CaixaBank (Participant)
Aljosa Pasic, Atos Spain (Participant)
Mr Olivier Matter, European Data Protection Supervisor (Participant)
George Mina, Australian Government - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Participant)
David Reichel, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) (Participant)
Chiara Romano, Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali (Participant)
Thomas Duong, Health Data Hub (Participant)
Philipp Mittelberger, BWB Rechtsanwälte AG (Participant)
Nathalie Thiberge, European Commission (Participant)
Julien Thomas, Standard & Poors (S&P Global Ratings) (Participant)
Giuseppe Vallone, University of Padova (Participant)
Rainer Baumgart, Eurobits / eleQtron (Participant)
Andreas Maetzler, Prighter Group (Participant)
Sebastian Steinbuss, International Data Spaces Association (Participant)
Mr Pierre Gronlier, Gaia-X (Participant)
Ms Karolina Mojzesowicz, EC DG Justice (Participant)
Dr. Andrea Bertolini, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (Participant)
Pilar Sala, MYSPHERA (Participant)
Mr Nicola Bernardi, Federprivacy (Participant)
Evangelos Ouzounis, ENISA (Participant)
Sara Testa, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Participant)
Isabel Hahn, European Data Protection Supervisor (Participant)
Luis Carrascal, Inetum (Participant)
Olav Lysne, Simula Metropolian CDE (Participant)
Veronica Jarnskjold Buer, Norwegian Data Protection Authority (Participant)
Dr. Liming Zhu, CSIRO (Participant)
Owe Langfeldt, EC DG Justice (Participant)
Alison Howard, Microsoft (Participant)
Kenneth Harris, United States Department of Justice (Participant)
Matteo Melideo (Participant)
Alexander Mense (Participant)
Ms. Nairane Rabelo Leitão, ANPD (Participant)
Griff Ferris, Fair Trials (Participant)
Ms. Catherine Jasserand, KU Leuven CiTiP (Participant)
Gianluigi Marino, Osborne Clarke (Participant)
Francesca Sallicati, TREE TECHNOLOGY (Participant)
Caroline Goemans-Dorny, INTERPOL (Participant)
Mr Willy Fabritius, SGS (Participant)
Dr Hielke Hijmans, Belgian Data Protection Authority (Participant)
Mr Shawn Jensen, Profila (Participant)
Alessandro Ortalda, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Participant)
Dr. Sandro Lovisa, SAP SE (Participant)
Dominik Schwarz, SAP SE (Participant)
Lukas Helminger, TACEO (Participant)
Marc Kaplan, VeriQloud (Participant)
Peter Fleischer, Google (Participant)
Pietro Randine, Norwegian Centre for E-health Research (Participant)
Cristina Melero, Medtronic Ibérica S.A. (Participant)
Dr Yomna Abdelrahman, Bundeswehr University Munich (Participant)
Supriya Sreekant Adhatarao, Inria - Grenoble - France (Participant)
Sven Albrecht, Chemnitz University of Technology (Participant)
Lauren L. Bernick, United States Office of the Director of National Intelligence (Participant)
Peter Broennimann, State Secretariat for Education (Participant)
Manuel Cheminod, CNR-IEIIT (Participant)
Nasreen Djouini, U.S. Department of Commerce (Participant)
Mr Peter Eberl, European Commission (Participant)
Helena Koning, Mastercard (Participant)
Dr Eugenio Gaeta, UPM/IDEA4RC (Participant)
Alain Herrmann, National Comission for Data Protection (CNPD) (Participant)
Juanjo Hierro, FIWARE Foundation e.V. (Participant)
Romeo Kadir, Association Data Protection Professionals Europe (ADPPRO) (Participant)
Nicholas Martin, Fraunhofer Institute (Participant)
Franco Mercalli, MultiMed Engineers (Speaker)
Stea Miteva, UDG (Participant)
Ms Marie-Laurence Navarri (Participant)
Christoph Bausewein, CrowdStrike | EFDPO | BvD (Participant)
Ms Marta Staccioli, Google Italy S.r.l. (Participant)
Silvia Vidor, University of Trento (Participant)
Lipsarani Sahoo, University of North Carolina (Participant)
Arianna Rossi, SNT - University of Luxembourg (Participant)
Ms Annalisa Trama, IDEA4RC (Participant)
Mr Otto Bruun, SERI (Participant)
Giada Galasso, University of Foggia (Participant)
Gerd Brost, Fraunhofer AISEC (Participant)
University Ca' Foscari - Aula Mario Baratto
Panel
Ms. Elham Tabassi, NIST (Speaker)
Kai Rannenberg, Goethe University (Speaker)
Bilel Jamoussi, ITU/AI4GOOD (Speaker)
Ms Renáta Radócz, IoTLab (Moderator)
Mr Willy Fabritius, SGS (Speaker)