About the Speaker:

Dr. Rawat is currently Deputy Director-General of Spectrum Planning and Engineering at Industry Canada.  Her duties include oversight of all technical matters concerning spectrum management both at the national and international level for all radio services except broadcasting.  In 1998, Dr. Rawat received the Trailblazer Award presented by the organization Canadian Women in Communications.  Dr. Rawat is very active in promoting women in engineering through university recruitment.

She received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1973 from Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.  Since then, she has worked at Computing Devices of Canada and has held a number of positions within Industry Canada (formerly the Department of Communications) dealing with Spectrum Policy and Engineering matters.  She has been the Canadian spokesperson for major ITU-R meetings including World Radio Conferences over the last 10 years, and has chaired a large number of Groups, the last one being Chairman for the Frequency Allocation Committee for WRC-97.