Ilsa Godlovitch

Ilsa Godlovitch is Director, Brussels at WIK-Consult. Since joining WIK in 2012, she has conducted numerous studies which relate to fibre deployment, demand-side challenges and electronic communications regulation. Recent studies for the European Commission include "Support for the Review of the Broadband Cost Reduction Directive” (2022 pending), “Future electronic communication markets susceptible to ex ante regulation” (2020), and the “Role of State Aid for the rapid deployment of broadband networks in the EU” (2020). She has also prepared studies for Cityfibre on the Impact of broadband labelling on full fibre take-up (2021), for the UK Broadband Stakeholder Group on "barriers to Gigabit adoption" and for the FTTH Council Europe on copper switch-off and misleading advertising (2020). Between 2002-2012 Ilsa worked in the telecommunications industry, first as international regulatory advisor for Cable & Wireless and then as Director at ECTA, a pan-European trade association representing challenger telecom operators. Between 1998-2002, Ilsa was senior advisor at Oftel, the UK telecoms regulatory authority, where she was responsible for the UK's first analysis of the broadband market, and developed policy and negotiated on behalf of the UK Government on the EU Framework for electronic communications, together with the Ministry for Trade and Industry.