Peter Zimri

Peter Zimri is a policy and regulatory specialist with more than 20 years of cross-functional telecommunication/ICT, broadcasting and postal industry experience. Zimri possesses a wide skill set, including corporate governance, public sector, international and local policy and regulation development as well as compliance and enforcement competencies.

He has a proven track record and vast experience in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector, including employment periods with the policy maker the Department of Communications (now Department of Communications and Digital Technologies (DCDT) as the Chief Director: Radio and Satellite Communications and ICASA’s predecessor, the South African Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (SATRA), as Senior Manager: Frequency Management. Zimri also headed the Technical Regulation at Liquid Telecoms South Africa (former Neotel). In the formative years of his career, He served as a trainee in electronic engineering at Telkom South Africa.

As an ICT Policy and Regulatory principle consultant at Pygma Consulting, Peter has been involved, not only in South Africa, but also across various markets on the African continent. He was involved in the acquisition of electronic communications and network service licenses as well as advising licensees on various ICT regulatory and policy compliance matters and the relevant pieces of ICT legislation.

At the recent ITU WRC-19, RA-2019, and CPM23-1, he served as a Vice-Chairman on the Steering Committee, representing and Chaired the ATU/African Group negotiations to successful conclusions and deliberations. Zimri was appointed as the Chairperson of the ATU ITU WRC-2023 preparations and the preceding CPMs. Zimri is still actively involved in the WRC-2023 preparatory work and is participating in the National Preparatory Working Group (NPWG), SADC and ATU meetings and is overseeing the regulatory contributions in developing these position papers.

He championed the regulatory matters as part of several South African delegations, at the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference, 2018 (PP18), World Telecommunications Development Conference, 2017 (WTDC-17), Universal Postal Union (UPU) Congress, 2016 and Pan African Postal Union (PAPU) Plenipotentiary Conference, 2016, Southern African Development Community (SADC) ICT Ministerial and Senior Communication Official Sub-Committee and the Smart Africa Alliance (SAA) meetings.

During the period April 2016 to March 2019, Zimri served as an Executive Committee member of CRASA as well as appointed to as Chairperson of CRASA from April 2017 to March 2018 with the mandate to harmonise policies and regulatory frameworks across SADC.

Amongst various other standards and ICT (Telecoms & Broadcasting) industry bodies, Zimri served on the boards of the South African Council for Space Affairs (SACSA), Number Portability Company (NPC), and South African Communications Forum (SACF). He also served on the various standards development Technical Committees of the South African Bureau of Standards (SABS). Zimri is a member of the Institute for Directors South Africa.

Peter Zimri holds a Masters degree - Master of Management in the Field of ICT Policy & Regulation (MM/MA (ICT)PR) from University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). He also holds various electronic engineering qualifications and credits in specialised ICT related programmes.