Peter P. Swire
C. William O'Neill Professor of Law, Ohio State University
Constantin Graf von Rex
Institute for Legal Informatics (IRI)
Sebastian Deterding,
PhD researcher at the Hans-Bredow-Institut für Medienforschung
Cédric Burton,
Associate, Privacy and Data Security Practice, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, LLP
Jan Albrecht, Greens civil liberties and legal affairs expert in the European Parliament
Lillie
Coney,
Associate Director Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
Giovanni
Buttarelli,
Assistant
European
Data Protection Supervisor
Cecile de Terwangne, Research Director at CRIDS, University of Namur (FUNDP)
Peter
Hustinx,
European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS)
Jean
Gonié,
Director of Privacy,
EMEA Policy,
Microsoft
Sophie
Kwasny,
Head of the
Data Protection Unit of the Council of Europe
Françoise
Le Bail,
Director General DG Justice
European
Commission
Terry
McQuay, President
Nymity Inc.
Omer
Tene,
Managing
Director of
Tene & Associates
Ivan
Szekely,
Counsellor of
the Open Society Archives at Central European University
Kirsten Van Gossum,
Attorney at the Brussels bar, ICT & IP
Paul
De Hert,
organiser CPDP,
LSTS,
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Marieke
De Goede,
University of Amsterdam
Mireille
Hildebrandt,
Senior Researcher at LSTS,
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Bibi
Van Den Berg,
Leiden Law School - eLaw
Gary T.
Marx,
professor
emeritus MIT
John
Boswell,
Senior Vice President, SAS
Bruno Schroder,
Technology Officer, Microsoft Belux
Els De Busser,
European Criminal Law, Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law
Bernard Maillet,
member of the Compliance Panel of EUCOMED
Christopher
Wolf,
Founder and Co-Chair,
Future of Privacy Forum
Alessandro Acquisti,
Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
Shara Monteleone,
scientific officer at The IPTS, JRC of the European Commission
Kevin Werbach,
Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Norberto Andrade,
Scientific Officer at the IPTS within the European Commission's JRC
Aaron Martin,
electronic identity expert at the IPTS within the European Commission's JRC
José Alejandro Bermúdez Durana. Colombian Deputy Superintendent for Data Protection
Tal Zarsky,
Senior Lecturer at the University of Haifa - Faculty of Law
Lindsay Cox,
Global Business Solutions area within Barclaycard
Diana Alonso Blas,
Data Protection Officer and Head of the Data Protection Service at Eurojust
Rita Balogh,
senior associate in APCO Worldwide's Brussels office
José Alejandro Bermúdez Durana. Colombian Deputy Superintendent for Data Protection. Mr. Bermúdez is a Colombian lawyer from Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá with a master’s degree in Competition Law and Intellectual Property from ESADE (Barcelona) and a postgraduate degree in publishing from Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona). He was a partner at the law firm Muñoz Tamayo & Asociados and an associate of HR Abogados Corporativos in Bogotá. Before being appointed as Deputy Superintendent he had previously served as advisor to the Superintendent of Industry and Commerce and coordinator of the Financial Data Protection Group of the Superintendence (2009-2011). Mr. Bermúdez was a member of the Governmental commission appointed for the draft of the Colombian Data Protection Law (Law 1581 of 2012).
Sebastian Deterding,
Sebastian Deterding is a designer and researcher working on persuasive and gameful design (or “gamification”), focusing on the increasing regulation of everyday interaction by software – and what ramifications this holds for society, the individual, ethics, and design. He is a PhD researcher at the Hans-Bredow-Institut für Medienforschung, Hamburg, Germany, co-editor of “The Gameful World”, a handbook on gamification to appear with MIT Press in 2013 (covering among other things issues of privacy, governance, and civic engagement), and publishes and speaks internationally on gamification, most recently a white paper on gameful design for impact for the White House/ASU National Conversation on Games. Before that, he was program manager multimedia at the Federal Agency for Civic Education, and user experience designer at publisher Gruner+Jahr.(http://codingconduct.cc)
Lindsay Cox
Lindsay Cox is a qualified Data Protection Practitioner with fifteen years experience in Financial Services; nine of these specialising in privacy and data protection.Lindsay has recently taken responsibility as Privacy lead for the Global Business Solutions area within Barclaycard, where she focuses and advises on all aspects of Privacy and Data Protection across the Merchant and Acquiring, Corporate and Digital Business functions. Prior to this Lindsay was Head Of Privacy for Barclaycard Europe, where she worked on several large, innovative and technological, market leading projects including the delivery of Barclaycard ‘Contactless’ card technology.Lindsay has also worked on several complex corporate mergers and acquisitions, allowing the smooth migration of customers, systems and data across the Barclays Group.
Rita Balogh. senior associate in APCO Worldwide's Brussels office, is an expert in European Union (EU) institutional affairs and policy, leading public affairs support to clients in various policy sectors, including ICT, security and transport.
A Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/E), Ms. Balogh has particular expertise in data protection policy.
Prior to joining APCO, Ms. Balogh worked in the legal and corporate affairs department of Microsoft in Brussels.
Ms. Balogh holds a Master of International Relations from the Corvinus University of Budapest and a Master of Politics and Societies in Europe from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris.
Denis Butin,
postdoctoral researcher in the Privatics team at Inria
Denis Butin.
Denis Butin is a postdoctoral researcher in the Privatics team at Inria (Lyon, France). His research currently focuses on security policy languages and accountability by design. He holds a PhD in computer science from Dublin City University, where he worked on the application of formal methods to electronic voting protocol analysis. Earlier, he earned a Master’s degree in mathematics and computer science at the University of Tours. He is involved with the Security chapter of the European FI-WARE project.
Niraj Nathwani,
EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA)
Gordon Nardell
barrister at Thirty Nine Essex Street Chambers
Mario Oetheimer,
EU Agency for Fundamental Rights
Gordon Nardell
Gordon Nardell QC is a barrister at Thirty Nine Essex Street Chambers in London, specialising in EU law and regulation including information privacy. He previously practised at the former European Commission of Human Rights and the Legal Affairs Directorate of the Council of Europe. Gordon has acted in several high-profile information rights cases in UK and European jurisdictions, including Liberty and others v. UK and S. and Marper v. UK in the European Court of Human rights. He is Leader of the European Circuit of the English Bar, and is currently leading the Bar Council’s response to the Commission’s draft Data Protection package. Gordon was a contributor to CPDP 2009 and 2011.
Niraj Nathwani
Niraj Nathwani is Programme Manager for Legal Research in the Freedoms and Justice Department of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA). Currently he coordinates FRANET, the multi- disciplinary experts group of the Agency. He holds a PhD in international law of the European University Institute, Florence. At the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia of the EU, the predecessor of FRA, Mr Nathwani served as data protection officer of the centre. At the FRA, Mr Nathwani was responsible for both PNR opinions 2008 and 2011 and for the 2010 report “Data Protection in the European Union: the role of National Data Protection Authorities”. His currently ongoing projects include a socio-legal project on redress mechanisms in the area of data protection and how they are used. Mr. Nathwani also writes the data protection chapter of the annual report of the Fundamental Rights Agency every year.
Mario Oetheimer
Mario Oetheimer's areas of expertise with respect to the FRA’s work include: data protection and freedom of expression; disability and human rights; the European Court of Human Rights. He previously worked for the Council of Europe for thirteen years – first with the Council of Europe media division and then with the European Court of Human Rights research division.
He studied law, and is the author of the book Harmonisation of Freedom of Expression in Europe (2001) in French. He has authored several articles on freedom of expression and the European Court of Human Rights.
Daniel Trottier
Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI) at the University of Westminster
Chris Hopfensperger
Technology Policy Counsel BSA | The Software Alliance
Chris Hopfensperger
As Technology Policy Counsel, Chris Hopfensperger works with members of BSA | The Software Alliance to develop the BSA's technology policy positions and articulate these positions to US and international policy makers. He advises members in such critical areas such as privacy, innovation, e-commerce, and cloud computing.
In 2012, Hopfensperger oversaw the publication of the first-of-its-kind BSA Global Cloud Computing Scorecard. That report analyzed and ranked the "cloud readiness" of the legal and regulatory environments of 24 countries around the world that together comprise more than 80 percent of the global IT market. The Scorecard also provides a roadmap for the initiatives and policies -- on privacy, security and other areas -- that countries can take to ensure that they reap the full growth and economic benefits of the growth of cloud computing.
Daniel Trottier
Daniel Trottier (PhD, 2010 Queen's Canada) is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Social and Digital Media at the Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI) at the University of Westminster. He is participating in two European Union FP7 projects on security, privacy and digital media (RESPECT and PACT). Daniel previously held appointments at the Department of Informatics and Media at Uppsala University and the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta. He is the author of the book "Social Media as Surveillance,"
Published by Ashgate, as well as numerous articles on the sociology of digital and social media.
Cliff Stearns,
former US Congressman, senior advisor at APCO Worldwide
Harry Valetk,
Director of MetLife's Global Privacy Office
Aleardo Furlani
CEO and founder of INNOVA
John Vervaele,
European criminal law at Utrecht Law School
Kasey Chappelle
global privacy counsel for Vodafone Group
Didier Wallaert,
senior associate in the IP/IT team of DLA Piper Brussels
Harry Valetk
Harry Valetk is an information technology and data privacy attorney in New York City. He has written extensively on the legal and public policy concerns surrounding data privacy, social networking, identity theft, and Internet safety. He currently serves as Director of MetLife's Global Privacy Office overseeing the Firm's commitment to sound data privacy policies and practices around the world. He was also a visiting scholar at Oxford University's Internet Institute and a Fulbright Senior Specialist. Before joining MetLife, Mr. Valetk was a trial attorney in the Civil Division of the Department of Justice. He is a graduate of the Bernard M. Baruch College, Zicklin School of Business, and received his J.D. from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. In 2011, the Hispanic National Bar Association awarded Harry with its prestigious "Top Lawyer Under 40" Award. Harry is fluent in Spanish.
Cliff Stearns
Cliff Stearns is a senior advisor based in APCO Worldwide’s Washington, D.C., office and serves as a member of APCO’s International Advisory Council. He is a former U.S. representative for Florida’s 6th congressional district, where he gained extensive experience in telecommunications, technology, cybersecurity and international trade during his 24 years of service.
Congressman Stearns has extensive experience as a business owner, legislator, issues advocate and policy leader. As chair of the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, he helped increase transparency in the federal government. Congressman Stearns also served as the Republican leader on the Communications, Technology and Internet Subcommittee and was chairman of the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade where he enacted consumer privacy and data security legislation. Congressman Stearns was a member of the Committee on Energy and Commerce. He also served on the Veterans Affairs Committee where he advocated for increased funding for the VA and improved long-term care for veterans. As chairman of the Transatlantic Dialogue for the European Union, he was appointed as primary liaison between the U.S. House of Representatives and elected members of the European Parliament.
Aleardo Furlani
CEO and founder of INNOVA S.p.A., Aleardo FURLANI holds an MBA from IESE- Barcelona. Senior associate for MAC Group/GEMINI Consulting Group from 1987 to 1992 carrying out consultancy strategy formulation projects for leading Italian corporations and Space sector state-owned enterprises, he set up the company INNOVA in 1993 to support EU companies and Universities in the implementation of their exploitation strategies of R&D results. Today the Group has branches in Italy, USA, Luxembourg, Poland, UK, Spain and Belgium and integrates R&D laboratories, and INVENT, a seed capital company.
John Vervaele
John Vervaele is full time professor of economic and European criminal law at Utrecht Law School (the Netherlands) and professor of European criminal law at the College of Europe in Bruges (Belgium). He is vice-president of the AIDP, in charge of the scientific coordination of the world organization for criminal law. His scholarly work is dealing with white collar crime and economic offences and European criminal law and procedure. The main topics in his research field are: enforcement of Union law; standards of due process of law, procedural safeguards and human rights; criminal law and procedure and regional integration; comparative economic and financial criminal law; terrorism and criminal procedure. He has realized a lot of research in these areas, both for Dutch Departments and European Institutions and worked as well as a consultant for them. He is regularly teaching as visiting professor in foreign universities, in Europe, the US, Latin America and China .
Kasey Chappelle
Kasey Chappelle is global privacy counsel for Vodafone Group, providing strategy, policy and compliance advice on privacy and data protection issues affecting the company. She leads a practice group of Vodafone employees that brings together privacy legal, regulatory and public policy experts across the Vodafone corporate family to share privacy, data protection and related legal and regulatory advice, create strategy around privacy risks, respond to external developments and explain Vodafone’s position to policy makers and opinion formers.
Didier Wallaert
Didier Wallaert is a senior associate in the IP/IT team of DLA Piper Brussels and has significant experience in data protection and privacy law, including advising clients on managing their international data streams in a compliant manner and setting up their business and developing their products and services in line with applicable privacy/data protection laws. Didier graduated from the Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) (Belgium) and also studied at the University of Montpellier I (France).
Tobias Bräutigam
Privacy Training and Awareness Officer Nokia
Kirsten Bock
Office of the Data Protection and Freedom of Information Commissioner of Schleswig-Holstein
Sarah Spiekermann,
Vienna University of Economics and Business
Sophie Louveaux
Supervision and Enforce-ment Unit at the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS)
Ana Brian Nougrères
Universidad de la República Oriental del Uruguay
Birgitta Jónsdóttir,
Chairperson
at International Modern Media
Institution
Sarah Spiekermann
Sarah Spiekermann is a professor for Information Systems since 2009 and chairs the Institute for Management Information Systems at Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Vienna). Before tenured in Vienna, she was assistant professor at the Institute of Information Systems at Humboldt University Berlin (Germany) and was Visiting Scholar at the Heinz College of Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Sarah has published over 70 articles in leading IS, marketing and computer scienice journals and conferences, in particular in the domain of electronic privacy and electronic marketing. She has two goals in her research work: (1) to better understand users’ privacy- and disclosure behavior and (2) to develop concepts for ethical system design, in particualr privacy by design. Since 2008 Sarah is regularly working for the European Commission as a reviewer, rapporteur or adivsor on privacy issues.
Tobias Bräutigam
Tobias Bräutigam joined Nokia Corporation in August 2008. His main responsibility currently is operational support for Nokia's business units in all privacy related questions. The work includes both implementing privacy by design principles and last minute work before product launches. Tobias is the Privacy Training and Awareness Officer for Nokia.
Before joining Nokia, Tobias worked for Helsinki University, giving lectures on European law and international business law. He received his doctorate from Helsinki University in 2008 on his thesis on access to information laws. The thesis compares freedom of information legislation in the United States, Germany and Finland.
Birgitta Jónsdóttir
Birgitta Jónsdóttir is one of the most prolific Icelandic poetician (politician), a Member (activist) of the Icelandic Parliament for the Movement & chairperson of the International Modern Media Institution.
She has worked as a volunteer and spokesperson for various organizations including WikiLeaks, Saving Iceland and Friends of Tibet in Iceland. Prior to becoming an MP she has worked as an activist, writer, pioneer in web development and publisher at Beyond Borders.
Ana BRIAN NOUGRèRES
Holding a degree of Doctor of Jurisprudence and Social Sciences from Universidad de la República - Uruguay, and being council adviser at the Uruguayan Parliament, Senate and Chamber of Representatives (since 1992), Dra. Brian teaches at Universidad de la República, School of Law - Legal Informatics Chair (since 2003). She is Principal Consultant at Estudio Jurídico Briann and Associates, Montevideo, Uruguay, and works as a legal consultant at the Uruguayan College of Attorneys (since 2003). She is co-founder of the Institute of Computer Law (School of Law, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay) (2000).
She is a member of the Iberoamerican Network on Data Protection since its inception in 2003. Member of the International Working Group on Data Protection in Telecommunications (since 2004). Member of the Uruguayan FIADI Chapter (International Federation of Law and Informatics) since 2006. Member of the IAPP (International Association of Privacy Professionals) since 2007. Proud Ambassador of Privacy by Design (since 2011), Member of the Board of the Academic International Network on Data Protection (since 2011).
Sophie Louveaux
Sophie Louveaux is Head of the Supervision and Enforcement Unit at the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) responsible for monitoring and ensuring compliance with the data protection Regulation (EC) 45/2001 in the EU institutions and bodies.
She has been with the EDPS since October 2004 previously as legal officer notably responsible for prior checking opinions and for coordinating EDPS relations with the Data Protection Officers of the EU institutions and bodies.
Sophie has also worked for many years at the CRID Research Centre for Computer and Law (CRID – University of Namur) where she took part to numerous European and national research projects and publications in the field of data protection, privacy and ICT.
Axel Arnbak.
Axel Arnbak is a full-time faculty researcher and a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute for Information Law (IViR, Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam). His Ph.D. project is on the regulatory aspects of cybersecurity, other research topics include cloud computing surveillance, online censorship, privacy and data protection. Between 2009 and 2011, Axel was part of the core team that revived the Dutch digital rights organization Bits of Freedom. He was responsible for all privacy advocacy and worked on both a national and European level under the flag of European Digital Rights (EDRi). For his LL.M. thesis on the fundamental rights aspects of the EU Data Retention Directive, Axel was awarded the national internet law oriented Internet Thesis Award 2009 and the general University of Amsterdam Thesis Award 2010.
Charles Raab,
University of Edinburgh
Monique Altheim,
Law Office of Monique Altheim
Andy Roth
Andy Roth co-chairs Denton's Global Privacy and Security Group. Prior to joining the firm Andy was the Chief Privacy Officer of American Express Company. Under his leadership American Express was ranked The #1 Most Trusted Company for Privacy four years in a row by The Ponemon Institute while launching bold new digital partnerships and initiatives.
At American Express Andy was responsible for ensuring the privacy of more than 100 million customers and 60,000 employees worldwide. He built a progressive global program based on the principles of Privacy by Design and Operational Risk Management. Andy has extensive experience dealing with regulators at all levels, including the Federal Reserve Bank and the Federal Trade Commission in the United States and the European and Asian Data Protection Authorities abroad. Before leaving American Express he initiated the Binding Corporate Rule for employee and customer data that was recently approved by the ICO in the UK.
Andy Roth
Denton's Global Privacy and Security Group
Ben Hayes
Ben Hayes has worked for the civil liberties organisation Statewatch since 1996 and is a Fellow of the Transnational Institute. He specialises in inter/national security and policing policies and also works as an independent researcher and consultant. Ben's research has two main focuses: (i) the impact of counter-terrorism, surveillance and border control policies on democracy, human rights, civil society and international development, (ii) the influence and activities of the defence and security industries. Ben has a PhD from Magee College (Derry/Londonderry) awarded by the University of Ulster in 2008.
Ben Hayes,
Transnational Institute
Giuseppe Abbamonte.
Giuseppe Abbamonte is an Italian qualified lawyer. Giuseppe has been working as a Commission official since June 1992. Before joining the Commission he was an associate in the law firm Allen & Overy in Milan for four years (1989/1992).
In the Commission he worked in five DGs (TREN, COMP, SANCO, JLS and INFSO).
From the first of July 2012 Giuseppe Abbamonte is the new head of the unit dealing with Trust and Security matters in the new DG CONNECT (former INFSO).
He is author of several publications mainly in English law magazines. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Centre of Competition Policy of the University of East Anglia.
Axel Arnbak,
IViR, Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam
Harri Koponen,
Rovio Entertainment Ltd.
Dennis Hirsch,
Capital University Law School in Columbus
Christopher
Docksey,
European Data Protection Supervisor
Siani Pearson,
Principal Research Scientist
Cloud and Security Lab Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
Jean-Christophe Le Toquin,
Microsoft Europe Middle-East & Africa
Dennis Hirsch
Dennis D. Hirsch is the Geraldine W. Howell Professor of Law at Capital University Law School in Columbus, Ohio, USA, where he teaches information privacy law. In 2010, served as a Fulbright Senior Professor at the University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Law where he conducted research on Dutch data protection regulation and taught a course on Comparative Information Privacy Law. He is the author of numerous articles and a prize-winning textbook and has lectured nationally and internationally at universities, law schools, bar associations and conferences. His research focuses on alternative forms of privacy governance including co-regulation and industry codes of conduct.
Professor Hirsch received his B.A., summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Columbia University. He earned his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he served as Articles Editor of the Yale Law Journal. He clerked for the Honorable John M. Walker, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and worked as an associate at Sidley & Austin in Washington, D.C. He currently serves as Counsel to the Firm at Porter Wright Morris & Arthur in Columbus.
Harri Koponen
Harri Koponen is currently the COO of Rovio Entertainment Ltd., an industry-changing entertainment media company headquartered in Finland, and the creator of the globally successful Angry Birds franchise. Angry Birds, a casual puzzle game, became an international phenomenon within a few months of its release, and is now the number one paid app of all time.Following this success in mobile gaming, Angry Birds has expanded rapidly in entertainment, publishing, and licensing to become a beloved international brand. Before joining Rovio, Mr. Koponen served as CEO of Swedish Tele2, as President and CEO of Sonera Corporation and as Deputy CEO of TeliaSonera Ab. He has also served as Managing Director of Kuwait Wataniya Telecom and has held positions for such international companies as Hewlett-Packard and Shell. Koponen holds a Ph.D. in Economics h.c. and has a long history of successful achievements in a number of global organizations.
Pasquale Stirparo
Pasquale Stirparo is a Ph.D. student at the KTH - Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, currently working as Digital Forensics and Mobile Security Researcher at the Joint Research Centre of European Commission. His main interests are penetration testing, vulnerability analysis, reverse engineering, malware research and analysis. He is also involved in, other than very interested to, the Digital Forensics field from technical, research and "standardization" point of view. Currently research interests revolve around: Security and privacy issues of wireless communication protocols such as Bluetooth, NFC, GSM, etc.; Mobile malware/Botnets; Digital Forensics.
Jean-Christophe Le Toquin
As Director of the Digital Crimes Unit for Microsoft EMEA’s Legal and Corporate Affairs group, Jean-Christophe drives the programs of this global team in Europe, Middle East and Africa. Since late 2011, the Digital Crimes Unit put a focus on implementing threat intelligence sharing against botnets, as well as fighting the distribution of child abuse material. Directly or through public/private public partnerships, he works to enhance collaboration and build capacity not only for industry and law enforcement but also for the cybersecurity community.
Since 2010, he has been Chairman of Signal Spam, a public-private partnership in France which is now considered as a rare example of operational and pragmatic cooperation against cyber threats.
Christopher Docksey
Christopher Docksey is the Director of the Secretariat of the European Data Protection Supervisor, responsible for ensuring the coordination and implementation of EDPS policies and activities. He is a member of the Bar of England and Wales and a law graduate of the Universities of Cambridge and Virginia. He has taught law at the University of Exeter, the College of William & Mary and the University of Washington. He joined the European Commission in 1983, working successively on labour law, gender discrimination and information society law. From 2001 to 2010 he was the Commission's legal adviser on data protection, advising on draft legislation, working on international negotiations, and appearing before the Court of Justice in all the data protection cases over that period.
Daniel Pradelles,
Hewlett-Packard Company
Wendy Seltzer,
Policy Counsel to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Stewart Robinson,
U.S. Mission to the European Union
Wendy Seltzer
Wendy Seltzer is Policy Counsel to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and a Fellow with Yale Law School's Information Society Project, researching openness in intellectual property, innovation, privacy, and free expression online. As a Fellow with Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Wendy founded and leads the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse, helping Internet users to understand their rights in response to cease-and-desist threats. She serves on the Board of Directors of The Tor Project, promoting privacy and anonymity research, education, and technology; the World Wide Web Foundation, U.S., dedicated to advancing the web and empowering people by improving Web science, standards, and generative accessibility of Web; and the The Open Source Hardware Association. She seeks to improve technology policy in support of user-driven innovation and communication.
Daniel Pradelles
Daniel Pradelles manages the HP EMEA privacy office, and ensures that the company’s goals and objectives are carried out within the region. Prior to this assignment, Pradelles was customer privacy manager for EMEA, held several management positions at HP at local and international levels in customer support, product marketing and international project management, and was EMEA information system manager. Prior to joining HP, Pradelles worked in R&D and served as a university professor.
A native of France, Pradelles holds an engineering degree from ENSEA (France), an MScA in electrical engineering from Sherbrooke University (Canada) and an MBA from UQAM University (Canada). He also holds a CIPP certification from the IAPP.
Kjetil Rommetveit
Kjetil Rommetveit holds a PhD in philosophy of science and technology, and has studied philosophy, law and science and technology studies. At the University of Bergen (Norway) he has thought theory and ethics of science for the humanities at PhD level. He has been a visiting researcher at Ludwig Maximillian University, Munich; Boston University and the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is the principal investigator of the EPINET project, investigating conditions and possibilities for integrated assessments in emerging technosciences.
Kjetil Rommetveit,
principal investigator of the EPINET-project
Ian Brown
associate director of Oxford University's Cyber Security Research Centre
Ian Brown
Dr Ian Brown is associate director of Oxford University's Cyber Security Research Centre. He has led numerous research projects on the social, ethical and legal implications of ICT and the more technical fields of communications security and healthcare informatics. He has recently completed three books (Regulating Code, Research Handbook on Governance of the Internet, and Online Privacy and European Law) and advised the European Commission during the development of the Data Protection Regulation. Since 1998 Dr Brown has variously been a trustee of Privacy International, the Open Rights Group and the Foundation for Information Policy Research. He is a Fellow of the International University of Japan and the British Computer Society, an ACM Distinguished Scientist, and has consulted for the UN Office of Drugs and Crime, US Department of Homeland Security, JP Morgan, Credit Suisse, Allianz, McAfee, BT, BBC, Cabinet Office, Ofcom, National Audit Office and OECD.
Stewart C. Robinson
Stewart Robinson is Senior Counsel for the European Union and International Law Enforcement Matters at the U.S. Mission to the European Union in Brussels. Mr. Robinson has previously served as the Principal Deputy Director of the Department of Justice’s Office of International Affairs (OIA) in Washington, and works directly with Federal and State prosecutors around the country regarding international issues. He has represented the Department of Justice on delegations negotiating extradition and mutual legal assistance treaties, and has served on international expert groups in matters relating to law enforcement. Mr. Robinson is a career prosecutor, having served for over 25 years in Federal and State criminal justice systems, and has also been engaged in the private practice of law representing individuals accused of crimes.
Since 2004, Mr. Robinson has served as an adjunct professor of law on the faculties of: Washington College of Law, American University; Columbus School of Law, The Catholic University of America; Georgetown University Law Center; and The George Washington University Law School. He received his B.A. from The University of Texas at Austin, and his J.D. from The University of Texas School of Law.
Constantin Graf von Rex
Constantin Graf von Rex has studied law in Passau and Münster and has successfully completed both state examinations in law in Germany. He is an admitted lawyer. Being a research associate at the Institute for Legal Informatics (IRI), a principal focus of his field of work is data protection law. Mr Graf von Rex mainly works in the EU-FP7 Project "Linked2Safety" (http://www.linked2safety-project.eu/) in the area of medial data protection and data security. Beyond this, fields of research are the legal aspects within another EU-FP7 Project "LinkedUp" (http://linkedup-project.eu/).
Marietje Schaake,
Member of the European Parliament in 2009 for the D66 political party (NL)
Bojana Bellamy,
Director of Data Privacy, Accenture
Peter Schaar,
Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information
Peter Schaar
Peter Schaar, the Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, holds a diploma in economics and was born in Berlin in 1954.
From 1980 to 1986 he worked in different capacities in the administrative service of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. From 1986 to 2002 he worked at Hamburg’s Data Protection Commissioner’s office. From 2002 to 2003 he was the managing director of a data protection consultancy, since 2007 he has worked as lecturer at the University of Hamburg. Since December 2003 Peter Schaar has been the Federal Data Protection Commissioner and in 2006 he also became the Federal Commissioner for Freedom of Information. In November 2008 he was reconfirmed in this office for another five-year term by the German Bundestag.
Awards: Prize from the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation “Das politische Buch 2008” (“the political book 2008”) for the book Das Ende der Privatsphäre (The end of privacy); “eco Internet AWARD 2008”, special German internet business award.
Bojana Bellamy.
Bojana is Director of Data Privacy at Accenture, heading a global team of 8 privacy professionals. Bojana has overall responsibility for Accenture’s data privacy strategy and compliance programs worldwide, in respect of internal operations and the company’s technology, outsourcing, consulting services.
Bojana currently sits on and is the former Chairman of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), sits on the Advisory Board of the International Data Privacy Law journal and participates in many industry groups. She is a regular speaker at international conferences and events.
Dorota Głowacka,
The Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights
Roger Clarke,
Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd, Canberra
Raphaël Gellert
LSTS research group of the law faculty of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
Bodó Balázs,
economist, piracy researcher at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) at the University of Amsterdam
Pasquale Stirparo,
Researcher at the Joint Research Centre of European Commission
Roger Clarke
Roger Clarke is an eBusiness consultant, based in Canberra, and focussing on strategic and policy aspects of advanced information technologies. He is also a Visiting Professor in Computer Science at the Australian National University, and in Cyberspace Law & Policy at the University of NSW. He has published over 100 papers on many aspects of surveillance and privacy, and originated the now-mainstream term 'dataveillance' in the mid-1980s. He has been a member of the Privacy International Advisory Board since its inception in 2000, and is currently Chair of the Australian Privacy Foundation - the world's oldest such body, having been founded in 1987.
Dorota Głowacka
Dorota Glowacka - Lawyer at the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, Poland dealing with freedom of expression and right to privacy issues. Coordinator of the HFHR’s 'Observatory of Media Freedom in Poland' programme. Involved in preparing the national report on the use of redress mechanisms in the area of data protection (a part of FRA research project). PhD candidate at the Public International Law Department, University of Lodz, Poland.
Roberto Lattanzi
Roberto Lattanzi, PhD, is the Head of the “Unit on Public and Private Work” at the Italian DPA (Garante per la protezione dei dati personali). Admitted at the Bar, he has been Assistant professor of Private Law at the Catholic University of Piacenza and has served as seconded national expert at the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) in Brussels. Author of scientific articles, especially in the data protection field, he is a “Marie Curie Fellow” and he has participated to several European (PRIVIREAL ad PRIVILEGED) and national research projects and reports in the field of data protection, privacy and health law.
Marietje Schaake
Marietje Schaake (Twitter: @MarietjeD66) is a Member of the European Parliament for the Dutch Democratic Party (D66) with the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) political group. She serves on the Committee on Foreign Affairs, where she focuses on neighbourhood policy, Turkey in particular; human rights, with a specific focus on freedom of expression, internet freedom, press freedom; and Iran. In the Committee on Culture, Media, Education, Youth and Sports she works on Europe's Digital Agenda and the role of culture and new media in the EU´s external actions. In the Committee on International Trade she focuses on intellectual property rights, the free flow of information and the relation between trade and foreign affairs. She is also a founder of the European Parliament Intergroup on New Media and Technology.
Katherine Tassi
Katherine Tassi is currently the head of data protection for Facebook Ireland, the European Headquarters for U.S.-based Facebook, Inc. She previously held the position of lead regulatory counsel with Facebook, Inc., for two and half years, working on global regulatory issues. Before working at Facebook, Katherine was an assistant attorney general with the Washington State Attorney General’s Office in the U.S., where she worked for eight years. In that position, Katherine prosecuted technology-related cases in the office’s high-tech unit of the consumer protection division.
Bodó Balázs
He was a Fulbright Visiting Researcher at Stanford University’s Center for Internet and Society in 2006/7 and a Fellow at the Center between 2006 and 2012. Since 2012 he has been a Fulbright Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. Since 2013 he is based in Amsterdam, working as a researcher and a Marie Curie Fellow at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) at the University of Amsterdam. Before moving to the Netherlands, he was deeply involved in the development of the Hungarian internet culture. He was the project lead for Creative Commons Hungary. He is a member of the National Copyright Expert Group. As an assistant professor at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, he helped to established and led the university’s Masters Program in Cultural Industries. He has advised several public and private institutions on digital archives, content distribution, online communities, business development. His academic interests include copyright and economics, piracy, media regulation, peer-to-peer communities, underground libraries, digital archives, informal media economies. His most recent book is on the role of P2P piracy in the Hungarian cultural ecosystem.
Raphaël Gellert
Raphaël Gellert is a full-time researcher and a Ph.D. candidate at the LSTS (law, science, technology, and society) research group of the law faculty of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). Since his arrival at LSTS, he has written on privacy, data protection (especially in the context of the EU-FP7 project PRESCIENT), discrimination, and accountability. He his now preparing his Ph.D. on the application of the precautionary principle to data protection legislation from a cosmopolitical perspective. Raphaël Gellert has a law degree from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (2008) and a European Master's Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation (2009).
Fosca Giannotti,
Information Science and Technology Institute of the National Research Council, ISTI-CNR
Dino Pedreschi
professor of computer science at the University of Pisa
Dino Pedreschi
Dino Pedreschi, a professor of computer science at the University of Pisa, leads the university branch of KDD LAB, the Pisa Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Laboratory. His research interests are in data mining and data analysis, in the integration of data mining and databases, in spatio-temporal data mining, in complex network analysis and data privacy techniques. He is a member of the program committee of the main international conferences on data mining and knowledge discovery, and an associate editor of Knowledge and Information Systems, and Statistical Analysis and Data Mining. D. Pedreschi has received a Google Research Award (2009) for his work on privacy-preserving data mining and anonymity-preserving data publishing.
Fosca Giannotti
Fosca Giannotti is a director of research at the Information Science and Technology Institute of the National Research Council, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy. Her current research interests include spatio-temporal data mining, privacy preserving data mining, social network analysis, data mining query languages. She has been the coordinator of various European research projects, including the FP6-IST project GeoPKDD. She is a member of steering committee of the FP7 European Coordination Action MODAP: Mobility, Data mining and Privacy. She is the author of more than one hundred publications and served in the scientific committee of the main conferences in the area of Databases and Data Mining. She chaired ECML/PKDD 2004, the European Conf. on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Data Bases, and ICDM 2008, the IEEE Int. Conf. on Data Mining. Fosca Giannotti leads the Pisa KDD Lab – Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Laboratory2 – a joint research initiative of the University of Pisa and ISTI- CNR.
Malcolm Hutty
Malcolm is President of EuroISPA, the pan-European organisation of membership associations representing the interests of Internet Service Providers. Malcolm is also Head of Public Affairs at LINX, the London Internet Exchange, and acts as Regulatory Affairs spokesman for Euro-IX, the European association of Internet Exchanges. He is a member of a number of other organisations relating to Internet regulation.
He has acted as an expert witness in two ground-breaking court cases concerning network blocking in the UK (the Newzbin2 case, and BT’s challenge to the Digital Economy Act), and in Ireland (EMI v Eircom), and has testified to Select Committee hearings of both the UK House of Commons and the House of Lords.
Guo Liang
Guo Liang is Associate Professor for the Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He started to use the Internet in 1995 when he was visiting scholar in University of Oxford. Then he became a well known column writer introducing the Internet and discussing its impact on Southern Weekend, a leading weekly newspaper in China. In 1997, he edited seven books of Internet Culture Series, including one book written by himself. Hence he was elected as one of the top 10 Chinese Netizens in 1998. He is director for CASS China Internet Project and has released 4 survey reports on Internet usage and impact in China, which is regarded, by Google, as "well respected" and "statistically rigorous". These led to his recognition as one of the leading experts on Internet impact in China.
Guo Liang is also a member of United Nations Multistakeholder Advisory Group for the Internet Governance Forum, and a consultant for Internet Society of China.
Lokke Moerel
Lokke Moerel heads the privacy practice of De Brauw and provides strategic advice to multinationals on their global ICT compliance. She leads the working group in which the CPOs of the leading Dutch multinationals developed their binding corporate rules in consultation with the Dutch DPA, which have received EU-wide approval. In 2011, Moerel obtained her PhD on binding corporate rules at Tilburg University, which Oxford University Press published in 2012. Moerel teaches data protection at Tilburg University and is arbitrator and mediator with WIPO and the Dutch institute for ICT disputes. She is a graduate of Leyden University and Cambridge University.
Moerel is consistently ranked as a leader in ICT and data protection in Chambers Global and Legal 500.
Elena Ferrari
Computer Science at the University of Insubria, Italy
Paul Timmers
Sustainable & Secure Society Directorate in the European Commission Communications Networks
Lokke Moerel,
Partner ICT
De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek
Paul Timmers
Dr. Paul Timmers is Director of the Sustainable & Secure Society Directorate in the European Commission Communications Networks, Content and Technologies Directorate General (DG CONNECT). Previously he headed the ICT for Inclusion and the eGovernment unit (EU policy, research and promotion). He has been a member of the Cabinet of European Commissioner for Enterprise and Information Society Erkki Liikanen, responsible for the information society and telecommunications policy portfolios. Other activities in the European Commission included electronic commerce policy and programme development.
Paul Timmers has been a manager in product marketing and head of software development in a large IT company and has co-founded a software start-up. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands and an MBA from Warwick Business School, UK. He was awarded an EU Research Fellowship at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, USA in 2009. He has widely published in the field of technology and policy, including a book on electronic commerce strategies and business models, and has been a visiting professor and lecturer at several universities and business schools across the world.
Elena Ferrari
Elena Ferrari is a full professor of Computer Science at the University of Insubria, Italy and scientific director of the K&SM Research Center. Her research activities are related to various aspects of data management, including access control, privacy and trust, secure cloud computing and emergency management. In 2009, she received the IEEE Computer Society’s Technical Achievement Award for “outstanding and innovative contributions to secure data management”. She is an IEEE Fellow and an ACM Distinguished Scientist.
Salvatore Ruggieri
Salvatore Ruggieri holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science (1999). He is currently associate professor at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Pisa, Italy, participating in the KDDLAB research group (http://www-kdd.isti.cnr.it). Current research interests are focused in the data mining and knowledge discovery area, including: discrimination discovery and prevention, languages and systems for modeling the process of knowledge discovery; sequential and parallel classification algorithms; web mining; and applications. He has also investigated areas of (constraint) logic programming, software verification, type systems, and meta-programming. He is currently coordinator of “Enforce”, a national FIRB (Italian Fund for Basic Research) young researchers project on “Computer science and legal methods for enforcing the personal rights of non-discrimination and privacy in ICT systems” (http://enforce.di.unipi.it).
Salvatore Ruggieri
Department of Computer Science of the University of Pisa, Italy
Frances Robinson
Frances Robinson covers EU affairs for Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal, a role which involves everything from interviewing Prime Ministers and Central Bankers to taking part in a beer-pouring competition at Belgium’s biggest brewery. Prior to this, she studied languages at Cambridge University, worked in Paris as a freelance journalist and translator, then moved to AFX in Brussels where she covered a range of issues as deputy bureau chief. After spending the first phase of the crisis in Frankfurt, covering the European Central Bank for Bloomberg, she took a career break to travel in Europe and Canada. Now back in Brussels at DJ/WSJ, her beat includes eurozone crisis, tech and telecoms, and the fascinatingly complex world of Belgian politics. Frances has appeared on Sky News, BBC News Channel, RTL, RTBF and Europe 1.
Frances Robinson,
Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal
Eva Salzmann
Eva Salzmannis Data Privacy Officer and Counsel at IBM for Europe and the Central Eastern European countries, responsible for legal, compliance and policy support to IBM's business data privacy-related matters in this geography.
She leads a team of legal professionals and data protection officers at IBM who address privacy and protection in the leadership manner expected of the IBM global brand.
Previously, Eva has been Counsel for IBM's Global Business Services brand in charge of the European South-Western countries.
Eva holds a law degree in Commercial and Tax Law of from University Paris 1, Panthéon Sorbonne (DESS Droit des Affaires et de Fiscalité).
Eva Salzmann
Data Privacy Officer and Counsel at IBM for Europe
Alessandro Acquisti
Alessandro Acquisti is an Associate Professor of Information Systems and Public Policy at the Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), and a member of Carnegie Mellon CyLab. He is the co-director of CMU Center for Behavioral Decision Research (CBDR), and a member of the National Academies' Committee on public response to alerts and warnings using social media and associated privacy considerations. He has held visiting positions at the Universities of Rome, Paris, and Freiburg (visiting professor); Harvard University (visiting scholar); and Microsoft Research (visiting researcher). (http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/~acquisti/)
Kevin Werbach
Kevin Werbach is an Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, where he served as Publishing Editor of the law review, and a summa cum laude graduate of the University of California at Berkeley. Kevin Werbach is a leading expert on the business, policy, and social implications of emerging Internet and communications technologies. He is also the founder of the Supernova Group, a technology analysis and consulting, advises companies and writes about emerging trends in communications and information technology. He co-led the review of the Federal Communications Commission for the Obama-Biden Transition Project. His research interests include: digital convergence, gamification, innovation, telecommunications policy, the business/government interface (http://werbach.com/).
Aaron Martin
Dr Aaron K. Martin is a social scientist whose research explores the topics of privacy, surveillance, digital identity and IT policy. He spent 2012 an electronic identity expert at the Institute for Prospective Technologies Studies within the European Commission's Joint Research Centre. In 2011 he completed a PhD in biometrics policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He has consulted for business, government, civil society and research organizations, including Vodafone, OECD, Open Society Foundations, IDRC and ITV, among others. He tweets as @_nomap. For information about Aaron's research and publications, see: http://personal.lse.ac.uk/martinak
Shara Monteleone
Shara Monteleone is a scientific officer at the JRC-IPTS (Institute for Prospective Technological Studies) of the European Commission. She graduated in Law from the University of Florence (Italy), and after a Master degree in ICT Law, she held a PhD in Law and Information Technologies from the 'Media Integration and Communication' Centre (MICC) of the University of Florence in 2007. She has also a Master degree in Comparative, European and International Law from the European University Institute of Florence (EUI). She has been working as post-doc researcher at INRIA (France), involved in projects on Privacy and Ambient Intelligence. As university lecturer, she has participated in several projects in Media Law (Constitutional Law) at the Department of Public Law (University of Florence and Universitad Autonoma de Barcelona), with special attention to privacy and data protection issues. She has taken part as a legal expert in several national and European research projects. Her previous working experiences include the collaboration as attorney at the Court of Florence, with the ITTIG-CNR (Istituto di Teoria e Tecnica dell' Informatica Giuridica, Centro Nazionale di Ricerca), as well as with the Chamber of Commerce and with the Trade Union of Journalists of Florence. Her research interests comprise the role of technologies in the protection of fundamental rights, with a focus on privacy, data protection and identity.