Donna Murphy

Senior Vice President of Global Regulatory Policy, Inmarsat

Bio

Donna Murphy is Senior Vice President of Global Regulatory Policy for Inmarsat. In this capacity, she leads the company’s domestic and international regulatory policy activities. Donna serves in the government-appointed position of Committee Member to the United States National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s Commerce Spectrum Management Advisory Committee (CSMAC). She is the Vice Chair of the United States International Telecommunications Union Association (USITUA) Board and serves as Focal Point to the ITU/UNESCO Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development. She is a Board Member of the United Telecommunication Training Institute and Advisor to the ITSO-American University’s WCL Program on Internal Communications Regulation.

Preceding Inmarsat, she was Vice President of Regulatory for Iridium where she led the company's global regulatory activities, including those related to policy, standards, licensing, International Telecommunication Union (ITU), and spectrum. She was appointed to the Federal Communication Commission’s Communications Security, Reliability and Interoperability Council and served as Chair of the Working Group on Satellite Issues for Cybersecurity. Donna also served as Vice Chair and Founding Member of the ITU Smart Sustainable Development Board. 

She was previously Senior Director of Spectrum Policy at PanAmSat Corporation. Prior to joining PanAmSat, she was Director of Technology and Regulatory Affairs for AirTouch Communications, where she developed and implemented a technical regulatory policy for terrestrial wireless services. Before her position at AirTouch, she was responsible for the FCC's international and domestic spectrum and licensing policy. Donna holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Clemson University.