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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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