North America Digital Communications and Media Forum, Washington D.C. – Save the Date

Since 2022, Carlos Baigorri has served as President of the Board of Commissioners at the National Telecommunication Agency (Anatel), Brazil’s telecom regulatory authority. Anatel is the body responsible to regulate a national sectorial landscape of more than 346 million accesses of the many telecom services, including 34 millions set to 5G technology and a market that attracted around 5 billion USD in investment in 2024. 

A seasoned expert in telecommunications, he has been a key figure within Anatel’s permanent career staff since 2009, holding several pivotal roles such as Executive Superintendent, Competition Superintendent, Enforcement Superintendent, and Head of the Technical Advisory Unit. His career in the industry began in 2006 in the private sector, where he worked as a consultant and analyst for mobile operators. 

Lynn Robinson became Director General of the International Institute of Communications (IIC), in March 2020.

Lynn is an experienced senior director and trustee / non exec-director, having held key senior leadership positions in the technology, built environment, regulation, accreditation and dental industries. She has extensive experience of professional membership bodies working within the full spectrum including, Regulatory bodies, Industry associations and Chambers of Commerce. Lynn is a well-known and established ambassador in these areas having led on many strategic programmes to aid engagement, growth, retention, change management, stakeholder and political engagement.

Mauricio Vera Sánchez is Commissioner of the Audiovisual Content Session. He is a Social Communicator and Journalist with a PhD in Social Studies from Universidad Externado de Colombia, and holds specializations in Television from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and in Aesthetics from Universidad Nacional de Colombia. With more than 26 years of experience in academia and the audiovisual sector, he has served as professor and researcher at several universities, including Universidad Externado, UNAD, Universidad del Quindío, and Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina. He has also worked as a director and producer of content at Universidad de Antioquia, Telecafé, and the Caro y Cuervo Institute, and was a member of the Research Group of the Audiovisual Content Observatory of the ANTV. His productions have received national and international recognition, including the India Catalina Awards, Prix Jeunesse International, Japan Prize, the National Culture Award, and the National Scientific Merit Award.

Russ Headlee is the Senior Bureau Official for the Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy. A career Foreign Service Officer, he most recently served as Acting Chief of Staff to the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs and as a member of Secretary Rubio’s Policy Planning Staff. His previous domestic assignments include Director for Jordan and Lebanon at the National Security Council, as well as roles in the Office of Macroeconomic Affairs and the Office of China Coordination. Russ has completed overseas tours in Israel, Iraq, and Thailand. Prior to joining the Foreign Service, he served in the United States Navy and the Peace Corps. A Nebraska native and graduate of the University of Nebraska, Russ was awarded the honorary title of Admiral in the Great Navy of the State of Nebraska by then-Governor Pete Ricketts in 2021.

Will Johnson leads Verizon’s federal regulatory and international public policy teams and has responsibility for representing Verizon on a wide range of regulatory and policy issues, including spectrum policy, broadband regulation, and network transformation. Before joining Verizon in 2004, Will was a litigator at Hogan & Hartson in Washington, DC, and before that at Long, Aldridge & Norman in Atlanta, GA. He also clerked for Chief Judge R. Lanier Anderson and for Judge Ed Carnes, each on the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Will currently serves on several boards, including the Emory College Alumni Board, the International Institute of Communications, the Media Institute, and the National Exchange Carriers Association. He previously served as Chairman of the Board for Miriam’s Kitchen, a nonprofit aimed at ending chronic homelessness in Washington, D.C