Siddhartha Raja

Siddhartha Raja is a policy specialist with the ICT Division of the World Bank Group. He works with governments in Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, India, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Moldova on convergence, broadband, and radio spectrum policy and strategy development, and provides advisory services on ubiquitous service delivery and improved program management through mobile applications. He is also involved in a number of research projects and has published books on media convergence and broadband telecommunications during his time with the World Bank. Mr. Raja has a bachelor’s degree in telecommunications engineering from the University of Bombay, a master’s degree in infrastructure policy studies from Stanford University, has studied media law and policy at the University of Oxford, and has a doctorate in telecommunications policy from the University of Illinois.