Dr. Veena Rawat

Dr. Veena Rawat is President of Expert Strategies International, a US-based consulting firm, advising national and international organizations on telecommunication policies and regulations. She is consulting since 2014 for GSMA as Senior Spectrum Advisor. In 2014 she was awarded ‘Officer of the Order of Canada’ for her “contributions to telecommunications engineering and for leadership in establishing the global regulatory framework for radio spectrum management”. Dr. Rawat received PhD in Electrical Engineering from Queen’s University, Canada in 1973. She spent 28 years within the Canadian Government where she held executive positions in managing radio frequency spectrum.  Between 2011-14, Dr. Rawat worked as Vice President and Ambassador to ITU for BlackBerry. During 2004-11, she was President of Communications Research Centre (CRC) of Canada. She had many trailblazer ‘firsts’ and has a long list of national and international awards. She is a Fellow of WWRF and  the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE), and a member of the External Advisory Board of Spectrum X of NSF, their innovation center for spectrum.