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14 ETSI FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME

ETSI GAs since 1989 and was the Vice Chair from 2014
Honoured fellows to 2018. She has also been a member of the ETSI Board

since 2011. She was a member of several Review Groups
and has taken on the roles of Board Champion or Ad-
hoc Group Chair on multiple occasions. She also chaired
the Board Process Group. Isabelle has been especially
involved in matters of governance, making sure that ETSI

Established in 2015, the ETSI Fellowship Programme Philippe Directives, including the Technical Working Procedures,
rewards individuals who have made an outstanding Magneron are fit for the rapidly evolving purpose of serving a highly
personal contribution to ETSI, to building our work, dynamic standard-setting organization.
or raising our reputation in specific sectors of Philippe Magneron is Dirk
standardization. Any individual representative of an a connected products Weiler
ETSI member organization may propose a candidate standardization Manager
for an ETSI Fellowship. at Hager Group in Dirk Weiler, now retired,
France. He has been was a former Head of
In April 2024 the Awards Committee, composed of the GA a key member of the standards policy at Nokia
Chair and Vice-Chairs, the Board Chair and the ETSI Short-Range Devices in Germany. He is a firm
Director-General, unanimously named Howard Benn, standards community believer in the power
Philippe Magneron, Matthias Schneider, Isabelle Valet- since 2004, when he of standardization. He
Harper, and Dirk Weiler as ETSI Fellows for their joined ETSI ERM/TG28, has been involved in
outstanding personal contributions to the organization. where he contributed standardization throughout
to developing standards his successful career in
for SRDs used by Siemens and Nokia. This
Dr. Howard millions of citizens in spanned from contributing
Benn their daily routines. He to technical work for GSM in ETSI in 1988 and leading

Dr. Howard Benn, now has spent over 30 years Siemens Communication Standardization activities during
retired, was a former VP of his career working in Private Mobile Radio, Short Range the 1990s and up to 2006, including the creation of 3GPP,
at Samsung Electronics Devices communications, and is now expanding into to guiding and leading standardization organizations and
in United Kingdom. Over Cyber Security for connected devices. He has been a related industry bodies, enabling mobile communications
the past 32 years, he has passionate promoter of the SRD industry in both his direct and supporting the world’s most successful standardized
been a major contributor contributions to ETSI’s work and in his championing of eco-system. Within ETSI, Dirk has chaired the IPR Special
to ETSI and 3GPP. From ETSI on a broader level. As rapporteur of the EN 300 220 Committee (2008–2018), the GA (2010–2014), and the
1992 to 1998, he was a standard series, Philippe has made an ETSI leading global Board (2014–2023). He was also a member of the CEN-
contributor to GSM standard for SRD / licence-exempt technologies, being CENELEC-ETSI Joint Presidents’ Group and the 3GPP
radio specifications. This cited across five continents. PCG/OP delegation, and representative for the European
work paved the way Commission ICT Standardization MSP. Dirk is a renowned
for single-chip solutions advocate for global, open, and consensus-based
that acted as catalysts in standardization with FRAND IPR policies, allowing for the
the mobile industry. incorporation of the most appropriate technologies.
Then in 1998, he helped
to create the radio group
in 3GPP, becoming convenor and then Chair, remaining
in this position until 2007. He then attended the SA1, SA
plenary and CT plenary groups, until 2023 as a contributor.
Outside of meetings, he has supported academia with
standards education. As part of his efforts to develop
ETSI’s strategy and support ETSI’s operations, he joined
the Board in 2008, a role that he continued until his
retirement in 2023.
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