New director general appointed at UAE’s TRA

Hamad Obaid Al Mansouri has been appointed the new director general of the UAE’s Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA). Al Mansouri replaces Mohammed Al Ghanim, who will continue to act as a consultant to the TRA’s board of directors, a government agency said in a statement.

Al Mansouri previously served as the director general of the UAE mGovernment initiative and was earlier the deputy director general of the TRA. He also held the post of director general of Information and e-Government from May 2013 to April 2014.

A graduate in Multimedia from Middlesex University in the UK, he was also a technical consultant in a number of government institutions.