Jeremy Green, Principal Analyst, Telco Strategy

Jeremy Green is a Principal Analyst in Ovum’s Telco Strategy Practice.

His research interests include: M2M/IoT, with a focus on transport and Smart City applications; the use of ICT to reduce and mitigate climate change; the medium-term future of the telecoms industry, including new roles for operators, and the evolution of voice services.

He is also Ovum’s spokesperson on Green telecoms issues and has a strong interest in the use of information and communications technology to reduce and mitigate environmental damage. He has a personal blog about the use of ICT to help make transport more sustainable at http://smartermobility.blogspot.com.

Jeremy is equally at home chairing a conference, delivering a keynote or running a hands-on workshop. He is a frequent speaker at client events, conferences and industry round tables. He regularly appears in the press, radio and TV as an expert industry commentator and has been a judge for the GSMA's annual mobile awards.

In 2009 he was seconded to the UK government’s Sustainable Development Commission to work on a project on sustainable transport, including input to the Commission’s high profile report “Smarter Moves: How Information Communications Technology can promote Sustainable Mobility”. He has authored reports on the future of the telecoms industry and on operators’ strategies for machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. Jeremy's client list speaks for itself, including ZTE, Telstra, Cisco, Ericsson, Amdocs and NokiaSiemens Networks.

Before joining Ovum in 1999 he worked as Head of Market Planning at the mobile satellite services company ICO, heading a team responsible for market research, forecasting, and competitor analysis. As part of this he ran several huge multi-country market research projects which interfaced with complex trade-off and price elasticity models. Jeremy also represented ICO within the GSM Association, where he was instrumental in establishing the Satellite Interest Group (SATIG).

Jeremy has a PhD in Science and Technology Policy from the University of Manchester. He has worked in the telecommunications industry, in the UK, Australia and Hong Kong, since 1987, specialising in wireless since 1990.