Igor Minaev

Background

About Igor Minaev

Igor Minaev is a specialist with 20+ years of experience in the domains of ICT regulations and standardisation. Currently, at the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), Igor holds the position of Head of External Relations dealing with more than 100 partners of ETSI (among them CEN, CENELEC, ISO, IEC, ITU, CEPT, and many others). ETSI, as a recognized European Standards organization, has an important task to produce and perform the maintenance of the technical standards that are necessary to achieve a large unified European market for telecommunications, ICT, other electronic communications networks and services, and related areas. Igor has been supporting ETSI Technical Committees (TCs) mainly dealing with the EU market access standards for radio equipment used in different sectors of the economy (telecom, transport, medicine, etc.) and regulated by corresponding EU Directives (like Radio Equipment Directive and EMC Directive). Igor's initial task at ETSI in 2003 was the execution of the EC fundedEC-funded Matchmaker programme aimed at a promotion of the European Standardisation System in all the Accession countries. Before ETSI, Mr Minaev worked at the Radio Research and Development Institute (NIIR). He was responsible for radio spectrum management and spectrum pricing aspects. He graduated from the Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics (MTUCI).