Hamadoun Ibrahim Touré (born September 3, 1953) [1] of Mali was Secretary General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the specialized agency of the United Nations dedicated to information and communication technologies (ICTs), from 2007 to December 2014.

[5] In May 2011, Touré was appointed the United Nations' (UN) Cybersecurity Executing Arm by the UN's Specialised Agency – International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

The Memorandum of Agreement was officially signed by Touré and Datuk Mohd Noor Amin, Chairman of IMPACT at the TCU's head office in Geneva.

He had a distinguished career in the satellite industry, working with Intelsat from 1985 to 1996 and managing its rapid expansion in Africa and the Middle East regional through connectivity projects such as RASCOM.

[8] In 2015, following his retirement from ITU, Touré returned to Mali where he was appointed as Founding Executive Director of the SMART Africa Alliance.