Nelson Malaguti is Counsellor at the Radiocommunication Bureau (BR) of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). He is responsible since June 2006 for ITU-R Study Group 4 on Satellite services and the Coordination Committee for Vocabulary. Previous to taking up his current duties, he worked at EMBRATEL in Brazil, involved in the coordination, notification and registration process for the Brazilian satellite networks. He received the M.Sc degree in telecommunications engineering from PUC-RIO, Brazil. He then worked in the Space Services Department of the Radiocommunication Bureau (BR) of the ITU, having participated actively at World Radiocommunication Conferences (WRC) such as WRC-97, WRC-2000 and WRC-03.  He also participated actively at WRC-07, WRC-12 and WRC-15 and is currently actively involved in the preparations for WRC-19.