Speaker 1 - Dr. Norman Lewis

Prior to joining WGC, Norman Lewis was the Director of Technology Research, Orange UK plc, (formerly the Home Division, France Telecom). In this role and prior to that as the founder and Director of Globalisation and Power in the Twenty First Century (1997) he has been a strategic pioneer in crafting innovation frameworks for the future application of information and communication technologies in society. Norman has a global reputation as an excellent communicator and inspirational presenter, with the ability to explain complex questions to a wide range of audiences. He has a robust track record of being able to focus, develop and mobilise a team around a set of objectives. His research team while at Orange were recognised as Internet thought-leaders across the world. Throughout his career, he has combined a passion for technology and people with a professionalism that has included extensive commitments in the private and public sphere, in voluntary as well as commercial environments. He is currently the Chairman of the ITU’s TELECOM Programme Committee and has acted as a consultant to the World Intellectual Property Organisation. He holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of Sussex (UK) and has lectured at several Universities in the UK including Sussex, the University of Kent, Canterbury and Oxford.