Raimundo Beca

Biography of Raimundo Beca

• Date of birth: May 8, 1940
• Nationality: Chilean

Studies:

• D.E.S. in Economics at the University of Paris.
• Civil Engineer at the Catholic University of Chile.
• Diploma in Economic Statistics at the CIENES, Santiago, Chile.

Professional Activities (Actual positions):

• Member of the ASO Address Council, appointed by LACNIC
• Member of the Board of LACNIC.
• Partner at Imaginaccion
• Member of the Board of Mundo Telefónica Chile, leading long distance carrier in Chile.
• Member of the Board of Globus 120
• Member of the Board of Puerto San Vicente, Talcahuano, Chile
• Member of the Board of Armamater, enterprise of disabled workers

Professional Activities (Previous positions):

• 1992-2002: Vice President of Strategic Planning and Regulation at Telefónica CTC Chile
• 1996-2002: Member of the Board of Telefónica Móvil
• 1996- 2000: Member of the Board of Ahciet
• 2000-2004. Member of NIC’s Chile Steering Committee
• 1990-1991: Regional Expert in Information Technologies, Director of the proposal: “Information and Telecommunications: Vector of the Productive Transformation with Equity (an ECLAC Green Paper)” and Consultant of various governments of the LAC region in IT issues at ECLAC (Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, United Nations)
• 1986-1991: Member of the expert panel in Information Technologies TIDE2000, supported by the Japanese Government, which held various different forums about the deregulation of the Telecom Industry and International Trade in Services.
• 1976-1989: “Chargé de Mission” in charge of Information Industry issues such as the development of Minitel, Hypertext, Smart Card and CD-ROM, at the Ministry of Industry of France
• 1976-1989: Member of the French delegation before the European Commission, the Council of Europe, the OECD, the ITU and the GATT.
• 1976-1989: “Rapporteur” of various Public Policy Reports, among them: the Nora-Minc report on the Impact on Society of Information Technologies and the Madec report on Transfrontier Data Flows.
• 1976-1989: “Rapporteur” of Bills on Data Privacy, Intellectual Property and Data Processing Fraud.
• Member of the Ethical Committee for the Minitel
• 1974-1975: Chief Engineer at SERTI, an information technology firm in Paris.
• 1970-1973: CEO of ECOM (Chilean National Company of Data Processing Technologies)
• 1966-1970: Researcher, Professor and Director of the Mathematical Economic Studies Center of the University of Chile (CEDEM)
• 1966-2003: Professor at different Chilean Universities and Institutes of Courses and Diplomas on Management, Information Technology Strategies, Statistics, Econometric Analysis and Project Evaluation, among others.

Various presentations on different subjects related to IT, among others:

• The IP World.
• The Internet development in the LAC region.
• Deregulation and Privatization of the Telecom Industry in Latin America.
• Regulatory issues of the Telecom Industry.
• Strategic Planning and General Management.
• 2010 Scenario.
• Mobile Telephony.
• The Drivers of the New Economy.
• The Internet in Latin America.