Education
Saint St. Petersburg State University of Telecommunications.
Saint St. Petersburg State University of Telecommunications.
He was re-elected for a second four-year term in 2010. He actively promoted the International Telecommunication Union Connect series of events, with the first one, Connect Africa, being held in Kigali, Rwanda, in 2007. Connect Africa raised United States$55 billion in investment pledges to improve Africa"s telecommunications infrastructure over seven years.
In the first two years, 2008 and 2009, United States$22 billion was invested in Information and communications technology infrastructure, mainly for mobile communications.
Doctor Touré serves as co-vice-chair of the Broadband Commission for Digital Development which was launched in May 2010 by International Telecommunication Union and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, with Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda, and Carlos Slim Helú, Honorary Lifetime Chairman of Grupo Carso, as co-chairs. He is also on the International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber Threats (IMPACT) International Advisory Board
In May 2011, IMPACT has been appointed the United Nation’s (United Nations) Cybersecurity Executing Arm by the United Nations’s Specialised Agency – International Telecommunication Union (International Telecommunication Union).
The Memorandum of Agreement was officially signed by Doctor Hamadoun Touré and Datuk Mohd Noor Amin, Chairman of IMPACT at the International Telecommunication Union’s head office in Geneva. Doctor Hamadoun Touré was born in 1953 in the Republic of Mali.
He studied at the Technical Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication of Leningrad (LEIS), receiving a Master"s degree in electrical engineering, and a Candidate of Sciences degree (equivalent to Doctor of Philosophy) from the Moscow Technical University of Communication and Informatics (MTUCI), in Russia.
Doctor Touré was Director of International Telecommunication Union"s Telecommunication Development Bureau from 1998 to 2006. Prior to joining International Telecommunication Union he had a distinguished career in the satellite industry. Doctor Touré also is a licensed radio amateur with the call sign HB9EHT.