Robert Mourik joined the Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg) as Commissioner in 2019 and is currently serving his second five-year term. Robert has almost thirty years’ experience in the telecoms sector, as an industry executive and as a Government official. Prior to joining ComReg, he worked for Cubic Telecom, a new entrant in the automotive Internet of Things space, where he was responsible for all wholesale activities. Robert spent almost 10 years in Telefonica as the European Regulatory Strategy Director at their corporate headquarters in Madrid and as Strategy Director in Ireland. He also worked for Vodafone Group as its head of their Brussels Office and in the regulatory department in Newbury, UK. In 1991, Robert began his career in the Dutch Department for Transport and Telecommunication, and from 1994 until 1999, he served as Telecom Attaché at the Netherlands’ Permanent Representation in Brussels. He was a Member and Chair of the Council Telecoms Working Group in 1998 when the first telecom regulatory package was adopted. Robert was born in the Netherlands and studied Economics and Public Policy at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam and the University of Hull (UK).