Mohamed Sharil Tarmizi
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| Country: | Malaysia |
| Email: | sharil [at] cmc.gov.my |
Mohamed Sharil Tarmizi was elected as the Chairman of the Government Advisory Committee (GAC) in ICANN and is the liason from the GAC to the ICANN Board in December 2002. Subsequently he was reelected for a second and final term in 2005 in the meeting held in Argentina.[1] Sharil has been involved in the ICANN process issues relating to Internationalised Domain Names (IDNs) where he was involved in the early development of identifying problems in the deployment of IDNs.
Work in MCMC
Mr. Mohamed Tarmizi was appointed as Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) on 16 June 2008.[2]
Until April 2006 Sharil served as the Senior Advisor in the Office of the Chairman and General Manager in the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC). In April 2006 he left his position at MCMC and is now with a strategic and financial advisory firm called BinaFikir. He has been appointed as the special envoy for Malaysia in GAC by the MCMC, in recognition of his contribution and interest in GAC.
In May 2006, he was positioned as a commission member in MCMC, by the Government of Malaysia. At the time he was one of the seven Commissioners serving on the Board of MCMC.
As a senior staff member in MCMC (from 2000 to 2006) he led the developent of the convergence legislation in Malaysia. This was reported as first of this kind of legislation. This enabled licensing migration to a convergence framework, 3G mobile systems, broadband initiatives, capacity building programmes on bridging the digital divide and self regulation in the communications and multimedia sector within the MCMC.[3]
International Collaboration
He has collaborated with many international organizations for Development projects, Speaking and Training programs. Following is a list international organizations he has collaborated with,
- International Telecoms Union (ITU)
- The Commonwealth Telecoms Organisation (CTO)
- The Asia Pacific Telecommunity (APT)
- The Pacific Telecoms Council (PTC)
He was also involved in advising multinational clients in relation to their participation in the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) Project and was particularly involved in two out of the seven initial MSC Flagship Projects in Malaysia.
Work as an Attorney
Before joining the MCMC, Sharil was an attorney specializing in construction law and privatization of utilities before moving on to communications, multimedia and e-commerce issues and has acted in an advisory capacity to multi-national clients in domestic and foreign projects.
Education
He received his LL.B(Hons) from the University of Wales.[4]