New Delhi: Bharti Airtel managing director and CEO Gopal Vittal, Reliance Jio president Mathew Oommen and 24 others have been elected to the board of global telecom industry body GSMA for the 2019-2020 term.
Vodafone Group CE for the Africa, Middle East and Asia-Pacific Region, Vivek Badrinath, too has been elected to the GSMA board, according to the announcement. Badrinath is also a non-executive director on the board of Vodafone Idea Ltd.
The GSMA Board has 26 members, including 25 operator representatives from the world’s largest operator groups as well as smaller, independent operators with global representation. All three major private Indian telecom operators are part of the GSMA board.
GSMA also announced election of Stephane Richard, chairman and chief executive officer of Orange Group as chair, and group CEO, Singtel Group, Chua Sock Koong, as deputy chair.
Richard replaces Bharti Airtel chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal, who is currently serving as the chairman of the GSMA board, and his two-year tenure is coming to an end by this year-end.