WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS - 22, november
2005 1st TRANSATLANTIC TELECOM INDUSTRY
Dimitri Ypsilanti is Head of the Telecommunication and Information
Policy Section at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development (OECD), Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry.
He is responsible for the work on communications policy and the
Working Party on Telecommunication and Information Services Policy
(Committee on Information, Computer and Communications Policy).
Mr. Ypsilanti's work has included telecommunication economic and
policy analysis in a range of areas including trade in telecommunication
services, international telecommunication tariffication and accounting
rates issues, analysis of regulatory reform, comparative analysis
of telecommunication performance among the OECD Member countries
and work on regulatory requirements for information infrastructures,
convergence and the infrastructure requirements for electronic commerce.
Mr. Ypsilanti has managed the Directorates input into the OECD’s
programme on regulatory reform.
He was a member of the Advisory Board to the Greek government on
their telecommunication law and has advised the Greek telecommunications
regulator (EETT). He has also been involved in the OECD's work on
technical assistance in the field of telecommunication policy to
the Central and Eastern European Economies and the Newly Independent
States of the former Soviet Union. He has also worked on industrial
policy issues, including structural adjustment and issues regarding
high technology industries.
Mr. Ypsilanti is member of the Editorial Board of Telecommunications
Policy and of Info.
Mr. Ypsilanti studied economics at Bristol University (UK), Memorial
University (St. John’s, Canada) and Queens University at Kingston
(Canada). Mr. Ypsilanti has Greek and Canadian nationality.
Dimitri Ypsilanti is Head of the Telecommunication and Information
Policy Section at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development (OECD), Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry.
He is responsible for the work on communications policy and the
Working Party on Telecommunication and Information Services Policy
(Committee on Information, Computer and Communications Policy).
Mr. Ypsilanti's work has included telecommunication economic and
policy analysis in a range of areas including trade in telecommunication
services, international telecommunication tariffication and accounting
rates issues, analysis of regulatory reform, comparative analysis
of telecommunication performance among the OECD Member countries
and work on regulatory requirements for information infrastructures,
convergence and the infrastructure requirements for electronic commerce.
