Dr. Issam Toufik is the CTO of ETSI and head of the 3GPP Mobile Competence Centre (MCC). He has more than 20 years of experience in the mobile communications sector, 14 of which are within the ETSI and 3GPP.  He was active for more than a decade in the 3GPP Radio Access Network (RAN) groups. As CTO of ETSI, he is responsible for all the operational aspects of ETSI’s standards development activities. He is also responsible for the operations of the 3GPP Project Co-ordination Group and heads 3GPPs’ Mobile Competence Centre (MCC) which is an international team of 22 experts that provides comprehensive support to the project.