Stephan Ibaraki interviews Dr. Chaesub Lee, Director, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU

Dr. Chaesub Lee has been involved in the fields of telecommunication and ICT for 35 years: as a technical expert for 27 of those years, and as an Elected Official of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) for the past 8 years.

Dr. Lee has contributed to the development of Telecom/ICT technology and services in areas as diverse as, Next-Generation Networks (NGN), IPTV, cloud computing, Fixed networks/Machine Learning (ML) for 5G, application of emerging technology (Quantum, Blockchain, AI, and ML) into Telecoms/ICTs.

He launched initiatives for inclusion such as AI4Good, the Financial Inclusion Global Initiative (FIGI), and the Road Safety initiative.

He started his professional life in 1986 as a researcher at Korea Telecom. After 17 years he took up a role at his country's Electronic and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), where he stayed for the next eight years. Subsequently, he worked at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), and then as a senior advisor to the ICT and Future Planning at the Korean Ministry, (MSIP).