Statement of Assistant Secretary Redl on Doreen Bogdan-Martin's Election as Director of the ITU’s Telecommunication Development Bureau

Statement of Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information and NTIA Administrator David Redl on the election of Doreen Bogdan-Martin as Director of the ITU’s Telecommunication Development Bureau:

"I am pleased that Doreen Bogdan Martin, an NTIA alum, has been elected as the Director of the ITU Development Sector. Doreen is immensely qualified and the United States looks forward to working with her and continuing in our role on the ITU Council to support the global expansion of communications technologies. Significantly, she is the first woman to hold one of the ITU’s five elected positions, and her leadership will give the United States a voice in ITU leadership for the first time in three decades."