{"id":38,"date":"2023-06-13T13:09:10","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T13:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itu-app42363.pagelyhosting.com\/tribute\/?page_id=38"},"modified":"2025-01-06T14:30:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T14:30:25","slug":"alexandre-sascha-kholod","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/itu-app42363.pagelyhosting.com\/tribute\/alexandre-sascha-kholod\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr Alexandre (Sascha) Kholod"},"content":{"rendered":"    <div class=\"ituContainer grid\">\n        <div data-span=\"12\">\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n    <section>\n        <div class=\"ituContainer grid \">\n                                <div class=\"ituCard bg hor alternating parent-side\" data-span=\"12\">\n        <img src=https:\/\/itu-app42363.pagelyhosting.com\/tribute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2023\/06\/Mr-Alexandre-Sascha-Kholod.jpg alt=\"Decorative image\" class=\"img-side\" \/>\n        <div class=\"content content-side\">\n            <div class=\"main\">\n                                    <p class=\"title\">Mr Alexandre (Sascha) Kholod<\/p>\n                                                    It is with profound sadness that we announce the untimely loss of Mr Alexandre (Sascha) Kholod, Chairman of the Conference Preparatory Group of the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations (<a href=\"https:\/\/cept.org\/ecc\/news\/alexandre-kholod-chairman-of-the-conference-preparatory-group\/\">CPG<\/a>), who sadly passed away during the weekend.<br>\u00a0<br>Alexandre was an esteemed colleague and a valuable contributor to the work of the Union, particularly in the Radiocommunication Sector. His presence and expertise were highly regarded by the ITU membership and secretariat.<br>\u00a0<br>As Deputy Head of the Swiss delegations to WRC-15 and WRC-19, he participated with great competence and commitment to representing the positions of his adopted country. Owing to his experience and know-how, in 2020 he was elected chairman of the Conference Preparatory Group of the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations (CEPT), which is currently working on the preparation of WRC-23.<br>\u00a0<br>As the Head of International Frequency Planning at BAKOM\/OFCOM, the Swiss regulatory authority, Alexandre was a prominent and influential figure in frequency spectrum management across Europe and at the international level for numerous years. He joined OFCOM&#8217;s Radio Fundamentals Section in 2001 as a spectrum engineer after obtaining a doctorate in physics\/mathematics in his home country of Belarus and a post-doctoral qualification in research management at the Universit\u00e9 de la M\u00e9diterran\u00e9e in Marseille. Since 2012, he had been working as Head of the International Group in OFCOM\u2019s Frequency Planning Section.<br>\u00a0<br>With Alexandre\u2019s passing, we have lost a dear friend who will always be remembered as a warm, kind, cheerful and committed colleague whose professional and human qualities we greatly appreciated. He will be sorely missed.<br>\u00a0<br>We offer our deepest sympathies and sincerest condolences to Mr Kholod\u2019s family, his wife and children, and to his friends and colleagues at BAKOM\/OFCOM and in the radiocommunications sector globally.<br>May he rest in peace.                                            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-brblocks-code-editor\" data-selected-script=\"jquery\" data-code-content=\"$(document).ready(function() {\n    $('button#desktopfullmenutrigger').hide();\n});\n\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-brblocks-code-editor\" data-selected-script=\"css\" data-code-content=\".ituContainer.grid .ituCard.hor.alternating img {\n    max-width: 20%;\n}\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"folder":[],"class_list":["post-38","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"gs-tiny":false,"xl":false,"xxl":false,"xxxl":false,"xxxxl":false,"xxxxxl":false,"gform-image-choice-sm":false,"gform-image-choice-md":false,"gform-image-choice-lg":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"mgaillard","author_link":"https:\/\/itu-app42363.pagelyhosting.com\/tribute\/author\/mgaillard\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itu-app42363.pagelyhosting.com\/tribute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itu-app42363.pagelyhosting.com\/tribute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itu-app42363.pagelyhosting.com\/tribute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itu-app42363.pagelyhosting.com\/tribute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itu-app42363.pagelyhosting.com\/tribute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itu-app42363.pagelyhosting.com\/tribute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itu-app42363.pagelyhosting.com\/tribute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itu-app42363.pagelyhosting.com\/tribute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/folder?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}