The President of the Republic of Brazil, Jair Messias Bolsonaro has appointed three new directors for the National Telecommunications Agency, Anatel replacing the retiring Agency’s Board of Directors by virture of the Decrees of January 28, 2022 , published in the Official Gazette of this Monday, January 31.
The list has the following precedence 1st Wilson Diniz Wellisch, 2nd Nilo Pasquali and 3rd André Gustavo Farias Gonçalves. According to the agency, Wilson Diniz Wellisch is an Engineer and holds Master in Electrical Engineering from the University of Brasília (UnB), he has been a career servant at Anatel since 2011, where he worked at the Superintendence of Private Services, he was an advisor to the Management of Control of Universalization and Access Expansion Obligations and superintendent of Granting and Recourses to Substitute Installment. Transferred to the Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovations and Communications in 2019, he served as director of the Department of Digital Inclusion, deputy secretary of Telecommunications and secretary of Broadcasting. He was director of the Telecommunications and Broadband Infrastructure Projects Department at the Ministry of Communications until March 2021.
While Nilo Pasquali graduated in Electrical Engineering and post-graduated in Telecommunications Regulation from the University of Brasília (UnB), he has been a career employee at Anatel since 2005. He was Manager of Regulation of Mobile Services, from 2010 to 2013, and Manager of Regulation , from 2013 to 2017. Since 2017, he has held the position of Superintendent of Planning and Regulation at Anatel, coordinating the development of rules and regulations for all telecommunications services, the preparation of bidding documents for the granting of telecommunications and law services use of radio frequencies and the proposal of measures to expand access to telecommunications services.
In addition, André Gustavo Farias Goncalves also graduated in Business Administration from Centro Universitário do Distrito Federal (UDF) and postgraduate in Telecommunications Regulation from Instituto Nacional de Telecomunicações (Inatel). He has several technical and governance courses in information technology. Before joining Anatel, he worked in the private sector for 12 years in the Pay TV and Internet engineering area, where he held technical supervision positions. The Agency’s server since 2005, he works in the Agency’s IT management, occupying the roles of User Support operational manager; advisor to the Network Planning, Operation and Maintenance Management; Information and Library manager, Network Planning, Operation and Maintenance manager; and superintendent of Internal Information Management.