Dr. Federico Kuhlmann (Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Master of Engineering, Cornell University, Electromechanical Engineer, UNAM) is a Full Professor and the Head of the Digital Systems Department at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), where for the last 15 years he was also the Dean of the Telematics Engineering Program. He has held teaching and research positions at the Engineering Graduate School at UNAM (the National University in Mexico), and the Electrical Research Institute (in Mexico), has been visiting scholar at WIK (Telecommunications Research Institute in Germany), T-Labs (the strategic research laboratories of Deutsche Telekom in Berlin) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has also delivered conferences in many universities in Mexico and abroad. He has supervised over 40 theses, and has published over 70 technical papers and conference proceedings, 2 books and several book chapters, all in telecommunications. His areas of interest are telecommunications technology and trends, interconnection economics, regulation, strategy and policy design, technology forecasting. In addition to his academic duties, he also has been very active in consulting projects, where he has worked on a great variety of technological projects. The Communications Ministry in Mexico, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Telefonica Moviles, the Latin American Institute for Communication in Education (ILCE), the Competitive Studies Center at ITAM, and many private organizations belong to the list of institutions for which he has recently worked for.