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New Fellows


       Congratulations to ETSI Fellows 2024!





       Established in 2015, the ETSI Fellowship Programme rewards and honours those individuals who have made
       an outstanding personal contribution to ETSI, helping to build ETSI’s work, or raising its reputation in specific
       standardization sectors. Following the call for Nominations for the ETSI Fellowship Awards, we are pleased
       to introduce our Fellows for 2024. More information: www.etsi.org/membership/fellows


















       Dr. Howard Benn                      Philippe Magneron                    Dr. Matthias Schneider

       Retired, former VP, Samsung          Connected Product                    HF Standardization Expert,
       Electronics, United Kingdom          Standardization Manager,             IP and Licensing Schneider,
                                            Hager group, France                  Germany
       Over the past 32 years, Howard Benn
       has  been  a  major  contributor  to   Philippe  Magneron  has  been  a  key   Matthias Schneider has been an active
       ETSI and 3GPP. He started in SMG2,   member of the Short Range Devices    figure  in  R&D  for  human  factors,
       where  he  worked  on  Phase  2  GSM   standards  community  since  2004,   accessibility,   usability,   and   user
       radio  standards,  developing  the     when  he  joined  ETSI  ERM/TG28,   interface  design  since  his  graduation
       RF  scenario  concept  that  reduced   where  he  contributed  to  developing   from  the  University  of  Stuttgart  in
       radio     requirements      while    standards  for  SRDs  used  by  millions   1986. He joined ETSI’s Human Factors
       maintaining high performance levels.   of citizens in their daily routines. He   Committee  in  1995.  Since  2010,  he
       This work paved the way for single-  has spent over 30 years of his career   has been the Chair of TC HF and from
       chip solutions that acted as catalysts   working in Private Mobile Radio, Short   2011 to 2022 he was also the Chair of
       in the mobile industry.              Range   Devices   communications,    the  ETSI/CEN-CENELEC  Joint  Working
                                            and  is  now  expanding  into  Cyber   Group  on  eAccessibility.  During  his
       In 1998, he helped to create the radio   Security  for  connected  devices.  He   tenure as TC HF Chair, the committee
       group  in  3GPP,  becoming  convenor   has  been  a  passionate  promoter  of   was  responsible  for  developing  the
       and  then  Chair,  remaining  in  this   the  SRD  industry  in  both  his  direct   most  important  European  Norm
       position until 2007. He then moved on   contributions  to  ETSI’s  work  and  in   and  standards  supporting  European
       to the SA1, SA plenary and CT plenary   his championing of ETSI on a broader   Accessibility  legislation.  He  has  been
       groups, which he attended until 2023   level:  particularly  in  CEPT  ECC,   the initiator of the development of the
       as a contributor. Outside of meetings,   CENELEC, and CEN in Europe; and in   ETSI Accessibility Policy and has been
       he  has  supported  academia  with   IEC on the international scene.      instrumental in overseeing its adoption
       standards  education.  As  part  of  his                                  by ETSI. His current roles focus on the
       efforts to develop ETSI’s strategy and   As  rapporteur  of  the  EN  300  220   implementation  of  ETSI’s  accessibility
       support  ETSI’s  operations,  he  joined   standard series, Philippe has made an   strategy  to  ensure  that  ETSI  will
       the  Board  in  2008,  a  role  that  he   ETSI leading global standard for SRD /     become a fully inclusive and accessible
       continued until his retirement in 2023.  licence-exempt  technologies,  being   standardization organization.
                                            cited across five continents.



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