Tayeb Ben Meriem

Co-Chair, World Broadband Association Working Group

Speaker Bio

Tayeb Ben Meriem holds an Engineering degree in Telecommunications from ENST (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications) of Paris, now IMT (Institut des Mines Telecom), a Master degree in Quantum Optic and PhD on Optical Networks, University of Paris (France).


With more than 35 years’ experience in Telecom and IT industry, he possesses a broad experience across most technologies. Tayeb was Co-Founder and Vice-President of the French IPv6 Task Force, and Board member of the European Commission IPv6 Task Force and participated in the creation of numerous IPv6 Task Forces in different Countries (Asia, MEA). Currently, Tayeb is Vice-Chair of the IPv6 Forum and Coordinator of the IPv6 Enhanced Council, member of France IPv6 Task Force, Vice-Chair of the ITUT-Focus Group on Federated Testbeds for 5G & Beyond and Co-Chair of WG 4 (Network Architecture and Technology) at WBBA (World Broardband Association).