Tomas Lamanauskas is Deputy Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union, elected at the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference of 2022, and in office since January 2023.
He has over 25 years of experience in telecommunications and digital policy, regulation, and strategy, holding executive-level positions in agencies, companies, and organizations across Europe, the Middle East, the Caribbean, and the Pacific.
As Deputy Secretary-General, Tomas focuses on ITU’s financial sustainability and operational excellence. He also promotes investments in digital infrastructure and resilience through the Digital Infrastructure Investment Initiative and International Advisory Body on Submarine Cable Resilience, and leads efforts to raise the digital industry’s ambition in fighting the climate crisis through the Green Digital Action initiative. Additionally, Tomas contributes to the global efforts to harness the opportunities and mitigate challenges of new technologies, in particular Artificial Intelligence, serving as a co-chair of the United Nations Inter-Agency Working Group on AI. Furthermore, he serves as Chair of the Management Committee of the United Nations International Computing Centre (UNICC) – a key shared platform for the delivery of infrastructure and services across the UN system. Tomas is also playing a key role in ensuring ITU’s support to other UN-wide development and governance efforts, including through the World Summit of the Information Society process and membership at the Operational Steering Committee of the UN Joint SDG Fund.
Tomas holds Master’s degrees in Public Administration (Harvard), Leadership and Strategy (London Business School), Telecommunications Regulation and Policy (The University of the West Indies), and Law (Vilnius University).
