Michael Walker

Michael Walker 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. In ETSI he chaired a number of technical bodies, including SMG 10, 3GPP SA3 or the Technical Committee Security from 1996 to 1998. Through these committees he led the development of mobile security standardisation for GSM, UMTS and LTE. He was an ETSI Board member, chairman of the Board for 3 years, and the person who probably did most to drive the development of ETSI’s Long Term Strategy. He is one of those who have left their mark on the Institute, as well as helping shape this industry.