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Biography
Chaesub Lee (Korean: 이재섭) is the Director of ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, the permanent secretariat of the International Telecommunication Union Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T).
Early career
In 1986 Lee started working at Korea Telecom, where he worked for 17 years. Following this, Lee worked at Korea's Electronic and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) for eight years.
ITU involvement
Lee was the Chairman of the ITU-T Focus Group Next-Generation Networks (FG-NGN), as well as the Vice-Chairman of the ITU-T Focus Group IPTV.
Lee served as Vice-Chairman of ITU-T Study Group 13 "Future Networks and Cloud" (SG13) from 2001 until 2008, after which he became Chairman of that group in 2009.
Director Telecommunication Standardization Bureau
Lee was elected at the 2014 Plenipotentiary Conference in Busan Korea, wit the term beginning on January 1, 2015.At the 2018 ITU Plenipotentiary Conference Dubai, Lee was elected to a second term.
