Lucy Lombardi
Ms Lombardi is Vice President for International Groups & Standards at Telecom Italia where her responsibilities include defining the company's positioning within the
international fora and standards bodies and developing new business opportunities.
She has been working in the Communications/Telecommunications industry for the past 16 years starting her career in software development and satellite radiometry (ESA). She landed in the mobile telecommunication business in 1996 where she has taken up severa1 management roles including Technical Roaming and Services Development, alongside being Telecom Italia's delegate in different 3GPP working groups.
She has been confirmed for 3 consecutive terms as Chair of GSMA/IREG (Interworking and Roaming Experts Group) from 1999 to 2006. In this position she
led the team through the challenges of defining the new technical requirements for the introduction of packet switched technology in a natively circuit switched business (2Gto 2.5G and then to 3G).
Lucy received a Masters Degree in Physics from the University of Rome which included a thesis on an origina1 research project studying infrared radiometry for advanced robotics.
