Chaesub Lee

DR. CHAESUB LEE Director, ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau Chaesub Lee is the Director of the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, following his election at the 2014 ITU Plenipotentiary Conference in Busan, Republic of Korea. He took office on 1 January 2015. Dr Lee has been involved in ICT standardization for over 30 years, specializing in areas such as integrated services digital networks (ISDN), global information infrastructure (GII), Internet protocol, next-generation networks (NGN), Internet protocol television (IPTV) and cloud computing. He started his professional life in 1986 as a researcher at Korea Telecom. 17 years later, he took up a role at the country's Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), working there for eight years. Dr Lee then worked at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and as a senior advisor to Korea’s Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP). Dr Lee served as Chairman of an ITU Focus Group on NGN and Vice-Chairman of an ITU Focus Group on IPTV. He served as Vice-Chairman of ITU-T Study Group 13 (Future networks and cloud) from 2001 to 2008, becoming Chairman of this group in 2009. Dr Lee holds a PhD in Multimedia Engineering. He is married with two children.