Professor Emeritus Charles Raab, University of Edinburgh: Fellow, Alan Turing Institute (ATI), co-Chair, ATI Data Ethics Group; co-Director, CRISP; Biometrics & Forensics Ethics Group (Home Office); Digital Identity Scotland Expert Group (Scottish Govt); Indep. Ethics Advisory Panel (Police Scotland). Research: privacy, data protection, surveillance, regulatory policy/ practice, data ethics, identification, security, democracy. Publications include The Governance of Privacy (2006); A Report on the Surveillance Society (2006); Specialist Adviser, House of Lords Constitution Cttee for Surveillance: Citizens and the State, 2009; FAcSS, FRSA.

Colin Bennett is Emeritus Professor of Political Science and Fellow at the Center for Global Studies at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. For over thirty years, his research has focused on the comparative analysis of privacy protection policy at domestic and international levels. In addition to numerous scholarly and newspaper articles, he has published seven books on these subjects, including The Governance of Privacy (MIT Press, 2006), as well several policy reports for national and international agencies. His current work focusses on the importance of privacy for democratic rights, and on the capture and use of voters’ personal data by political parties in Western democracies.

Since July 2015, Marit Hansen is the Privacy Commissioner Schleswig-Holstein and Chief of Unabhängiges Landeszentrum für Datenschutz (ULD). Before being appointed Privacy Commissioner, she was Deputy Comissioner (since 2008) and in charge of the "Privacy Technology Projects" Division and the "Innovation Centre Privacy & Security" within ULD. Since her diploma in computer science in 1995 she has been working on privacy and security aspects with a focus on Privacy by Design from both the technical and the legal perspectives.

Sébastien Ziegler serves as Chair of the Privacy Symposium and President of the Europrivacy International Board of Experts of the European Centre for Certification and Privacy. He also serves as President of the IoT Forum. As founder and Director General of Mandat International, he is actively supporting international cooperation. He also served as Rapporteur on Research and Emerging Technologies at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU/SG20), and he initiated and/or took part in over 30 international research projects largely related to data governance. Sébastien has a PhD in Management with a specialization in Information Systems at the Faculty of Economy and Management of the University of Geneva. He graduated in International Relations at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, followed by a Master in Environment, a MBA in international administration (HEC Geneva), and complementary executive courses at Harvard Business School in Boston, Stanford University, UC Berkeley and EPFL. He is also a qualified expert in data protection accredited for Europrivacy, EuroPriSe and ISO 27001 certifications. Sébastien founded several foundations, SMEs, and organizations.