Mohamed Ezzedine Mili
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Mohamed Ezzedine Mili | |
|---|---|
| Secretary-General of the ITU | |
| In office 20 February 1967 – 31 December 1982 | |
| Preceded by | Manohar Balaji Sarwate |
| Succeeded by | Richard E. Butler |
| Personal details | |
| Alma mater | Ecole Normale Supérieure, France Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, France |
Mohamed Ezzedine Mili (4 December 1917 – 5 August 2013) was a Tunisian diplomat who served as the Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union from 1967 to 1982, including an ad interim tenure from 1967 to 1973.[1]
Career
Mili studied in France at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Saint-Cloud) and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (Paris), graduating as a telecommunications engineer in 1946. He joined the Tunisian Posts and Telecommunications (PTT) Administration in 1948. In 1957, he was promoted to become Chief Engineer and took up his duties as Director-General of Telecommunications at the Ministry of PTT. In that capacity, he modernized the Tunisian telephone network by introducing the automatic crossbar-type system.[1]
From 1956, Mili led the Tunisian delegation at many of ITU’s major events, including the Plenipotentiary Conferences of 1959 and 1965, the Plenary Assemblies of the International Telephone and Telegraph Consultative Committee (CCITT) of 1958, 1960 and 1964, and the Plenary Assembly of the International Radio Consultative Committee (CCIR) in 1963. He was also active in several CCITT study groups, notably those that dealt with telephone switching and signalling and the worldwide automatic and semi-automatic telephone network, and in CCIR study groups in the areas of space systems and radio astronomy and radio-relay systems. Mili was actively involved in the work of the World Plan Committee, which was responsible for planning the world telecommunication network. In 1961, he was elected Vice-Chairman of the Plan Committee for Africa and became its Chairman in 1964. From 1960 to 1965, Mili represented Tunisia on the ITU Administrative Council and was elected Chairman of its 19th Session in 1964.[2]