Pamela Kumar

Pamela Kumar Director General Telecommunications Standards Development Society (TSDSI), Founding Chair & Current President of CCICI and the Bharti Chair Visiting Professor at UIET Panjab University. Since her joining TSDSI as Director General in early 2017, TSDSI has made a mark in the global standards arena – with its contribution of the Low Mobility Large Cell (LMLC) requirement for 5G Rural broadband in ITU and later approval of its Radio Interface Technology (RIT) - 5Gi as an IMT2020 technology standard by the ITU. She drove adoption of TSDSI Transposed oneM2M as the national standard for IoT/M2M in India. She worked with Department of Telecom to conceptualise 5G High Level Forum, leading several of its task forces and is now actively driving execution of its recommendations. TSDSI has forged deep partnerships with global SDOs and forums under her watch. She spent the first 10 years of her career at AT&T, Bell Labs in USA and at C-DOT in Bangalore. Later, she held leadersh