The UAE’s foremost authority on spectrum management, Tariq Al Awadhi is a prominent figure in international spectrum planning and negotiation. Al Awadhi played a pivotal role in international spectrum management as chair of the World Radiocommunication Conference 2012 (WRC-12), where he garnered sufficient support among ITU members in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (ITU Region 1) to allocate a ‘second Digital Dividend’ for mobile.