Exclusive: Nigeria’s Chief Telecom Regulator, Maida To Speak At International Regulators Forum 2025

• Forum To Feature Other Global Regulatory Heavyweights

By Clifford Agugoesi, Editor-in-Chief

The Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Communications Commission(NCC) Dr. Aminu Maida and other global regulatory bigwigs are to speak at this year’s International Regulators Forum (IRF) to be hosted by the Commission for Communications Regulation of Colombia on 20 – 21 October.  The venue of the Forum is the COSMOS 100 Hotel + Centro de Convenciones.

Cyber Era NG can exclusively and authoritatively report that the International Institute of Communications(IIC) is expectant of a warm welcome from Executive Director  of the Commission for Communications Regulation of Colombia Claudia Ximena Bustamante and her fellow Commissioners in Bogotá.

We understand that Claudia and IIC President Isolde Goggin will be opening the IRF on October 20, 2025 and setting the scene for the topical discussions between regulators from around the world.

The International Regulators Forum has been shaped with input from the IIC’s regulatory members and it is held under the Chatham House Rule and there will be English / Spanish simultaneous translation throughout.

The Small Nations Regulators Forum will be a breakfast roundtable on October 21, 2025.

At the Forum, regulators and policy makers will be sharing experiences and benchmarking initiatives to tackle digital transformation.

Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Europe will be represented, along with peers from the Americas.

Other than, Nigeria’s Maida, the Forum will be highlighted by:

• Commissioner, National Communications Commission (NCC), Taiwan (ROC) Dr Jiang-Jia Wang

• General Director, Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA), Bahrain; Board Director, International Institute of Communications, Philip Marnick

• President, Haute Autorité de la Communication Audiovisuelle (HACA), Morocco, Latifa Akharbach

• Commissioner, Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni (AGCOM) Prof Elisa Giomi

• Membre du Collège and Board Member, Autorite de Regulation des Communications Electroniques et des Postes (ARCEP), France, Xavier Merlin

• Director, International, Ofcom, UK, Camilla Bustani

• President, Hellenic Telecommunications & Post Commission (EETT); Board Director, International Institute of Communications, Prof Konstantinos Masselos

• Chairman, Barbados Broadcasting Authority; Director, National Transformation Initiative, Government of Barbados; Board Director, International Institute of Communications, Dr. The Hon. Allyson Leacock OR

• Director of Concessions and Telecommunications Standards, Ministry of Science, Innovation, Technology, and Telecommunications (MICITT), Costa Rica, Freddy Artavia Estrada
• President, Instituto Dominicano de las Telecomunicaciones (INDOTEL), Dominican Republic, Dr Guido Gómez Mazara
• President, National Television Council (CNTV) Chile and President, Platform of Ibero-American Audiovisual Regulators (PRAI) Mauricio Muñoz Gutiérrez
• Deputy Superintendent for the Protection of Personal Data, Superintendency of Industry and Commerce, Colombia, Juan Carlos Upegui Mejía
• Director of International Spectrum Policy, Ofcom, UK; Treasurer, International Institute of Communications, Chris Woolford
• Communications Commissioner, Commission for Communications Regulation of Colombia (CRC) Lina María Duque del Vecchio
• Presidential Advisor for the Digital Transformation of Colombia, Saúl Kattan

The Welcome Reception for the IIC 56th Annual Conference follows the close of the International Regulators Forum in the early evening of October 21 in the same venue. the COSMOS 100 Hotel + Centro de Convenciones.

“This is the perfect opportunity for industry to meet the international regulatory community for informal conversation ahead of the official Conference agenda.

The Annual Conference agenda is being developed with input from IIC’s strategic partners and sponsors. Plenary sessions, focused breakouts and breakfast roundtables enable us to include a broad range of telecom/media/tech policy and regulatory themes addressed from the perspective of countries large and small, from the global north and south,” stated the Director-General at the IIC, Ms. Lynn Robinson.. 

Registration and sponsorship opportunities are still available.