Moderator: World Radiocommunication Conference 2019: The Global Future for Satellites

Julie Zoller is the Chief Government Affairs Officer at Omnispace LLC, where she leads global government relations initiatives to deliver innovative communications solutions with the Omnispace hybrid satellite wireless platform.

An expert on technology policy and accomplished negotiator, Julie has worked with diverse constituencies to shape and achieve U.S. digital economy policy objectives at the global level. She served as Senior Deputy Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy in the State Department’s Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs from March 2013 to January 2017 and as Acting Coordinator during the administration transition, from January to August 2017.

In 2016, she chaired the governing Council of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and headed the U.S. delegation to the ITU World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly. She also served as deputy head of delegation to the 2016 OECD Ministerial Meeting on the Digital Economy, 2015 ITU World Radiocommunication Conference, and 2014 ITU Plenipotentiary and World Telecommunication Development Conferences. Julie was elected to two terms on the ITU’s Radio Regulations Board (2006 to 2014), serving as its first chairwoman.

Julie was the Deputy Associate Administrator for International Spectrum at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration from 2011 to 2013 and a program director at ITT Information Systems from 1997 to 2011. She previously worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the Department of Defense.

Julie earned a Master of Science in Business Administration from Boston University and graduated cum laude from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, where she received a Bachelor of Science (engineering science).