Established in 2015, the ETSI Fellowship Programme rewards and honours those individuals who have made an outstanding personal contribution to ETSI, helping to build ETSI’s work, or enhancing its reputation in specific standardisation sectors.
Any individual representing an ETSI member, except members of the Awards Committee, may propose up to one candidate per call for an ETSI Fellowship.
Although nominations may be submitted at any time, ETSI Fellowship awards are announced at the spring General Assembly each year.
To be eligible for an award, a candidate shall be nominated by at least four (4) individuals who do not belong to the same ETSI member, Corporate Group, or Public Group as the nominee, and not to one of the other nominators. Nominations from individuals representing a diverse mix of member categories would be strongly recommended.
ETSI Fellowships are awarded each year by an Awards Committee composed of the ETSI General Assembly Chair and Vice-Chairs, the ETSI Board Chair and the ETSI Director-General.
To be considered for an award at GA#89, nominations should be sent to the ETSI Director-General using this document and should be received by the end of the day on 18 December 2026.
The following people were honoured for their achievements.
Discover more by watching the video about our ETSI Fellowship Programme and reading our flyer.
Climate Associates, United Kingdom
Retired, Former Director
Keith Dickerson was a regular participant in ETSI Technical Bodies, the Board, as well as the General Assembly from 1992 to 2024, spanning nearly 33 years, which represented a significant part of his career. During this time, he made hundreds […]
BT, United Kingdom
Industry Standards Director
Kevin Holley has over 38 years of experience in ICT standardisation. He has been driving the development of ETSI and 3GPP standards from the very beginning. He started working on GSM within CEPT in 1988 and moved to ETSI upon […]
Castle Consulting Ltd, United Kingdom, Retired, Lead Developer for the EN 301 549 Accessibility Standard
Mike Pluke was active in early Human Factors standardisation work in ISO/IEC and ITU-T since 1988. He became a member of ETSI TC HF (Human Factors) in 1993 and first held the role of TC HF Vice-Chair in 2002. He […]
GSMA, UK
Technical Security Director
Alex Leadbeater is a leading expert and active member of the ETSI security community, having attended his first 3GPP SA3 meeting 24 years ago.
Orange, France
Standardisation and Intellectual Property Strategy Director
Serge Raes devoted countless hours, effort, and financial resources to his professional career, focusing on various activities within or complementary to ETSI.
Samsung Electronics, United Kingdom
Retired, Former VP
Over the past 32 years, Howard Benn has been a major contributor to ETSI and 3GPP.
Hager group, France
Connected products standardisation Manager
Philippe Magneron has been a key member of the Short Range Devices standards community since 2004, when he joined ETSI ERM/TG28, where he contributed to developing standards for SRDs used by millions of citizens in their daily routines.
Schneider, Germany
HF Standardisation Expert, IP and Licensing
Matthias Schneider has been an active figure in R&D for human factors, accessibility, usability, and user interface design since his graduation from the University of Stuttgart in 1986.
CommLedge, France
Retired, Former Standards Expert
Isabelle Valet-Harper, was a senior Standards Adviser at Microsoft, then a Standards Expert at CommLedge.
Nokia, Germany
Retired, Former Head of Standards Policy
Dirk Weiler is a firm believer in the power of standardisation. He has been involved in standardisation throughout his successful career in Siemens and Nokia.
Cadzow Communications Consulting Ltd (C3L), United Kingdom
Director, Engineer
Scott Cadzow has been an active member of ETSI’s community since 1995 and over that period has contributed to developments across a vast swathe of ETSI’s technical work.
Kapsch TrafficCom, Sweden
Radio Expert
Hans has been a key contributor in ETSI from 2002 onwards for standards on road vehicle radio communication.
SYSTRA Consulting Services, France
Retired, Former Director Technologies and Services for Mobility
Robert has been the Chair of the Telecommunications Committee for Railway Communications (TC RT) for 21 years.
BBC Design + Engineering, United Kingdom
Principal Systems Architect
Lindsay has been involved in radio broadcasting throughout his career and is a pioneer of digital broadcasting technologies.
OVE, Austria
Standardisation Manager
Dr. Günter Kleindl has been a key member of the DECT standards community since 1987, when he joined ECTEL TCS and started to participate in CEPT RES3, what then became ETSI RES3 after the foundation of ETSI.
GCTIO Unit of Telefonica, Spain
Head of Technology Exploration and Standards
Diego has been especially active in the ETSI Network Transformation initiatives, being among the original proponents of the seminal ISG NFV, and since then taking part in its leadership
Discrete Time Communications, United Kingdom
Retired, Former Consultant
Larry has spent much of his career working to obtain spectrum for new or emerging communications technologies, supporting spectrum requests with industry and international standards, participating in conferences, workshops and funded R&D programs to promote the work and associated standards.
Zeata Security Ltd, United Kingdom
Director
Charles Brookson OBE CEng FIET FRSA has been involved in Security since the late 1970s and has been promoting and participating in Security in ETSI from the start.
HEAD acoustics GmbH, Germany
Managing Director Telecom Division
Dr.-Ing. H. W. Gierlich started his professional career in 1983 at the Institute for Communication Engineering at RWTH, Aachen.
Qualcomm CDMA Technologies GmbH, Germany
Vice President, Technical Standards
Jamshid has been since 1996 a key member of several ETSI TBs, Projects and Task Groups for broadband and mobile radio access networks.
Agency NL, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate, The Netherlands
Coordinator Engineering for Spectrum Management, Radiocommunications
Dr. Gabrielle Owen joined the ETSI Technical Committee Electromagnetic Compatibility and Radio Matters (TC ERM) in 2002 and was the Chair of TC ERM as well as the Operational Coordination Group R&TTE (OCG R&TTE), from 2005-2013.
Nokia
Head of Management, Virtualisation & Application Enablement Standardisation
Nurit initiated and led the industry effort to set up the ETSI ISG MEC and successfully positioned the MEC technology as a key building block and enabler for 5G, IoT and mission-critical, vertical solutions.
ETSI
Former CTI Director
Anthony joined the ETSI staff in 1995 as a member of the Permanent Experts group, which eventually evolved into ETSI’s Centre for Testing and Interoperability.
Copsey-Comms - United Kingdom
Director
has over 56 years of experience in telecommunications, radio, outside broadcast, fiber optics and radio interference.
UK Radiocommunications Agency
Telecommunications Technical Officer
For eight years, Ian Doig had been a Higher Telecommunications Technical Officer with the UK Radiocommunications Agency before being seconded to ETSI as a Technical Editor in 1993.
Fellow IET - United Kingdom
B.Sc. C. Eng.
as VP – Product Strategy, Standards and Regulations at Siemens SpA, Italy; and as Telecommunications Advisor of Italian Government, participated in all ETSI’s strategic/policy activities from 1992 to 2009.
Cisco Systems - Belgium
Manager Engineering
started work in ETSI back in 1993, when he became a member of the former TC RES and RES 02. Later on he became active in other groups such as RES 9 (EMC) and RES 10 (Hiperlan).
has been a key member of the TETRA standards community since 1994, when he joined what was then ETSI RES6 WG6, who designed the TETRA security standards.
began his career at Deutsche Telekom. He became project manager for the German public packet switching network.
has been involved in ETSI for more than 20 years, as a participant then Chairman, since 1997, of the ETSI fixed radio systems working group (TM4) in the Access, Terminals, Transmission and Multiplexing technical committee (ATTM).
was one of the few who participated in the early work on GSM, before ETSI was founded, and continued to help define our current 3G and 4G networks.
is the “champion” of Short Range Devices at ETSI – which are now used in thousands of applications.
is the person who has driven the standardisation of the SIM, USIM and UICC.
has managed to have three, almost parallel careers, a ‘corporate’ career in Vodafone where he rose to Group R&D Director, an academic career as a professor at Royal Holloway, University of London, and Head of a School in Kings College (University of London) and his ETSI career.
was elected in 1988 as ETSI Deputy Director, and served in that capacity and Deputy Director General until his retirement in 1996.
has participated in ETSI since 1992. From 1997 to 2000 he served as chairman of the Analogue Terminals and Access committee, and then as chairman of the Access and Terminals committee until 2006.
has been active in ETSI since 1989 through different leadership, technical and strategic roles.
was influential in the CEPT committee that triggered the establishment of ETSI, as well as e.g. in the CEPT group that determined the relative allocation of responsibilities on Radio spectrum matters between CEPT and ETSI.
has been intensively involved in the research, development and standardisation activities of the GSM system since the mid-80’s and has contributed heavily to standardisation bodies.
represented Siemens and later Nokia Siemens Networks at ETSI.
first involvement with ETSI dates back to 1988 when he was a technical expert for BT contributing to the writing of EN 300 001 (NET4).
served as ETSI Director General from 1990 to 2006 and is now Honorary Director General.
was the founding chairman of TC ERM from 1997 to 2005. During this time it grew to be one of the largest technical committees in ETSI in terms of participation and workload.
