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Preeti Banzal

Preeti Banzal

Preeti Banzal is an Indian Telecommunication Services officer. Presently, she works as Adviser/ Scientist G, in the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India.

Banzal has more than three decades of experience working in Telecommunication Policy Making, Telecom Equipment & Networks Standard Setting, Telecom Projects Management, Project Finance, Capacity Building, and Training Management in the field of Disaster Management, Energy Conservation, Telecom Standardisation Regulatory, and Policy Issues. 

Banzal contributed to the formulation of National Policy and Sectoral Guidelines and Plans frontier technologies i.e. Artificial Intelligence (AI), Trustworthy and responsible AI, and Quantum Key distribution standards. She is a member of Several working groups and Inter-Ministerial Advisory Committees in National Missions and Programmes in the areas of AI, Quantum Communications, Cyber Physical Systems, Photonics, Technical Textiles, e-Mobility and National Startup Advisory Council among others.

Banzal had been regularly engaging with International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in Geneva Switzerland and the Asia Pacific Tele community (APT) in Bangkok, Thailand; as a resource person and contributor to standards. She had been appointed as Vice-Chair of the ITU-IMO-UNEP Focus Group on AI for Natural Disaster Management (AI4NDM) (December 2020 – June 2021)

 Academic Credentials:

  1. Ph.D. in Disaster Communications and Early Warning Systems in India (2016)
  2. Master of Business Administration (Human Resource Management) (2012)
  3. Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics & Telecommunications) (1990)

Publications: Dr. Banzal has multiple publications on Communication Technologies, Artificial Intelligence, and Disaster Management. She has authored a book: “Disaster Communication and Early Warning Systems” and contributed a chapter for a book with Springer.

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