Gopal Vittal, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (India and South Asia), Bharti Airtel, has been elected to the Board of GSMA for the 2019-20 term.
Airtel has had a long-standing association with the GSMA. Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman, Bharti Airtel, has served as board member of GSMA between 2005 and 2008 and as the Chairman of board of GSMA between 2016 and 2018.
Vittal will join 25 other distinguished leaders from across the world to provide strategic guidance and roadmap to the organisation, which represents more than 750 of the world’s mobile operators.
“I look forward to working with the GSMA board members to put out the industry’s growth vision in an increasingly digitally integrated world,” Vittal said on Monday.
The GSMA also represents over 350 companies in the broader mobile ecosystem, including handset and device makers, software companies, equipment providers and internet companies, as well as organisations in adjacent industry sectors.
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