Peter H. Hellmonds is a senior public and international affairs executive at Nokia Siemens Networks. He was Ethics Officer and Head of Corporate Social Responsibility at at Nokia Siemens Networks. This followed on his position as Vice President of Public and International Affairs at Siemens Networks, a subsidiary of Siemens AG in Munich, Germany, where he was responsible for the development and communication of national and international information society strategies and initiatives.

Peter’s career began with an apprenticeship in business administration, followed by workign in international business in Berlin, Germany and Cairo, Egypt. Following that, he completed a rigorous course of studies, earning a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service degree from the School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., a Diploma in International Studies from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, Bologna, Italy, and a Master’s degree in Public Affairs (MPA) from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.

Upon completion of these studies, he joined the World Bank, developed strategies for advancing electronic networking with developing countries, and helped a number of African countries to achieve Internet connectivity. Peter commissioned the first Web server for the World Bank in 1993, later used for implementation of the Bank’s new public information policy, set up a mobile computing task force, and established the Electronic Media Center at the World Bank in 1994.

After his return to the private sector, Peter worked for the Swiss-Swedish Asea Brown Boveri (ABB) on structuring and negotiating the 2bn EUR project finance deal for the International Airport for Athens, Greece, and the 1.5bn USD privatization of the Jorf Lasfar Power Station in Morocco. Since joining Siemens in 1999, he negotiated telecommunications financing, served as Senior Advisor for International Financial Institutions, established an eGovernment Strategy for Siemens Business Services, while resuming his work related to the information society.

He was involved the work of the World Economic Forum Digital Divide Initiative in 2001, participated in the Digital Opportunities Task Force of the G8 in 2002, and in the United Nations Information and Communications Technologies Task Force from 2002-2005, where he served as Chair of the Working Group on Human Capacity Building, eHealth and Local Content in 2005. Peter organized Siemens’ participation and actively contributed in the negotiations in both parts of the World Summit on the Information Society (Geneva, 2003 and Tunis, 2005) .

In early 2006, Peter was appointed to serve on the Commission on E-Business, Information Technologies and Telecommunications of the International Chamber of Commerce, and to the Communications Expert Group of the German UNESCO Commission. He has also been selected to serve in the multi-stakeholder advisory group, assisting UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in setting up the Internet Governance Forum, and is also a member of the strategy council of the United Nations Global Alliance for ICT and Development.

In national public affairs, he is a member in the Public Affairs working group of BITKOM, the German ICT industry association, and served as Executive Advisor to the Chairman of the Board of the Initiative D21, where he developed close working relationships with German federal and state ministries. Between 2006 and 2008, he was Chairman of the German Broadband Initiative.