Mario Germán Fromow Rangel

On September 10, 2013, Mario Germán Fromow Rangel was ratified by the Senate of Mexico as Commissioner of the Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) until February 28, 2021.

At present, he is also the Chairman of the Permanent Consultative Committee II: Radiocommunications (CPP.II) of the Inter-American Telecommunication Commission (CITEL) and a Vice President of the Committee on Digital Economy Policy (CDEP) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Commissioner Fromow Rangel’s career spans of over 26 years in both the public and private sectors at national and international level in technology and knowledge transfer, public policy and regulation on Broadcasting, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and Telecommunications.

Commissioner Fromow Rangel was a member of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) of Japan.  He has participated as Deputy Head of Delegation of Mexico in the following International Telecommunication Union (ITU) World Conferences; World Radiocommunications Conference 2019 (WRC-19) in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt; Plenipotentiary Conference 2018 (PP-18) in Dubai, UAE; Plenipotentiary Conference 2014 (PP-14) in Busan, Republic of Korea;World Conference on International Telecommunications 2012 (WCIT-12) in Dubai, UAE, with Full Power granted by the President of the United States of Mexico to sign ad referendum the Final Acts and Plenipotentiary Conference 2006 (PP-06) in Antalya, Turkey.

He is a Communications and Electronics Engineer from the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) of Mexico and has a Master of Science in Engineering from Keio University in Japan. He was a Researcher on Optical Communications at the Research and Technology Development Laboratories of the Japanese company Kokusai Denshin Denwa (KDD) and also a Research Associate at the Media Lab of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).