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ITU, Switzerland

Dr Tim Kelly is the newly-appointed Lead ICT Policy Specialist at the World Bank in Washington, taking up his position in July 2008. He was formerly Head of the Strategy and Policy Unit of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), where he worked since 1993. Before joining ITU he spent five years as a Communications Policy Analyst with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and three years with Logica Consultancy Ltd.

Over the last twenty years, Dr Kelly has specialised in the economics of the telecommunications industry. He has written or co-authored more than 30 books on the subject including the ITU’s “Internet Reports” and “World Telecommunication Development Report” and “World Information Society Reports”. He was in charge of the “content team” for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), which concluded in November 2005. He has an MA (Hons) degree in Geography and a Ph.D in industrial economics from Cambridge University.