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ARLX010 Doreen Bogdan-Martin, KD2JTX, is Elected as Next ITU
Secretary General

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Special Bulletin 10  ARLX010
From ARRL Headquarters  
Newington CT  October 4, 2022
To all radio amateurs 

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ARLX010 Doreen Bogdan-Martin, KD2JTX, is Elected as Next ITU
Secretary General

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations
specialized agency for information and communication technologies,
has announced the election of Doreen Bogdan-Martin of the United
States of America as the next ITU Secretary-General. Bogdan-Martin
will assume office on January 1, 2023. She is a radio amateur and
holds the call sign KD2JTX.

The election took place during ITU's Plenipotentiary Conference
(PP-22) in Bucharest, Romania, on Thursday, September 29, 2022.
Bogdan-Martin won the position with 139 votes, out of 172 votes cast
by representatives of Member States.

You can read the ITU press release here:
https://www.itu.int/en/mediacentre/Pages/PR-2022-09-29-ITU-SG-elected-Doreen-Bogdan-Martin.aspx

"This is an exciting development for ITU," said International
Amateur Radio Union (IARU) President Tim Ellam, VE6SH. "...she will
be the first female SG [Secretary General] and only the third to
hold an amateur license. Doreen has an exciting agenda for ITU."

The US Department of State has published a statement from
Bogdan-Martin, as well as her biography, and vision.

"She will make an outstanding ITU Secretary-General and one IARU
will be proud to work with on behalf of the Amateur Services," said
Ellam.
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