 Welcome to the ITU studio here at the Radio Communication Assembly, RA-23 in Dubai. And I'm very pleased to be joined in the studio by the chair of RA-23, who is Carol Wilson. Carol, welcome to the studio. Thank you very much. Now I'd like to start off by asking you, we just had the opening ceremony and we had the opening plenary here. What your hopes are for this conference and for this preparatory conference for the World Radio Communication Conference? Well, we have a lot of important issues ahead of us and I'm not going to choose among them because everybody has their favourites. But they set the work plan and the directions for the next four years in the ITU. And a very important time is technology is improving and changing and affects the lives of so many people in so many ways. And one of the things I've learned over the years is there's no single way to weigh up the different uses of spectrum. Some as commercial, some as scientific, some as safety. And it's very difficult to give those equal weighting on any metric. So we have always a tension among how we deal with spectrum and there will be issues. But I hope that out of this we arrive at a compromise that makes people happy and that we can move on with the work for the next four years. Now we were talking about when you're not chair of RA, what your main day-to-day tasks are? My main tasks have been in two parts. One is that I've been very privileged to be the chairman of ITU study group three on radio propagation. And that has been a real privilege, a very enjoyable activity. I'm chairing that group. I've been involved there for almost 30 years, so it's over 30 years. So it's quite near and dear to my heart. Out of that and the propagation, I use my skills for the other half of my job, which is looking at interference issues to do with a radio quiet zone for radio astronomy for a new telescope facilities in Western Australia. So looking at interference and managing spectrum issues. When you found out you were going to be chair of the RA, were there any major concerns or any major thoughts about the challenges of leading a conference such as this? Well it is quite daunting, but I guess I've been chairing study group three for a number of years and I've had the experience of dealing with difficult situations and complicated problems. But also I feel that this is very important work and I did want to do my part to contribute to that. So I was very pleased to take it on but it is rather daunting and I've been very fortunate to have the strong support of the director of the bureau and the staff in the bureau who have been very, very helpful in the background getting things ready. Excellent. And now this morning it was mentioned that you are the first female chair of the Radio Communication Assembly. I wanted to know how that made you feel. I mean we've been encouraging at ITU a female participation, a better gender balance in radio communication conferences. And how far do you think that's being achieved? I think we're getting there. I mean I think this is now, I'm probably the third in the trifecta. Vina Rawat was the first woman to chair a WRC, Cindy Cook was the first to chair a CPM and now I'm the first to chair a Radio Assembly. And I was approached by two of the women after the plenary this morning from a developing country who said that they were very pleased to see a woman up front because it encouraged them to be more participating. So I think I'd like to do that as a role model and I'd like to see more women taking on the roles. And indeed we have a number of very qualified women chairing subcommittees and working groups at this assembly and I'm sure at the conference to come. Well Carol, thank you very much for joining us in the studio and we wish you all the very best. It's the first day here and we've got a few more days to go. But I'm sure that you'll be able to lead it admirably and thanks so much for joining us. Thank you very much. And do join us on the ITU YouTube channel for more interviews from the Radio Communication Assembly as well as next week from the World Radio Communication Conference too. And look forward to catching up with everybody here and giving you some more insights into the interesting world of radio communication. Thank you very much.