Security

Moderator

Kenneth Neil Cukier covers technology and telecoms for The Economist in London. Earlier, his work focused on the international politics of technology, particularly intellectual property and Internet governance. Previously, he was the technology editor of The Asian Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong and a regular commentator on CNBC Asia; before that he was the European Editor of Red Herring. From 1992 to 1996 he worked at The International Herald Tribune in Paris. From 2002 to 2004 Mr. Cukier was a research fellow at the National Center for Digital Government at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he worked on a book about the Internet and international relations. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Prospect, The Financial Times and Foreign Affairs, among others. He has been a frequent commentator on business and technology matters for CBS, CNN, NPR and the BBC and others. Mr. Cukier is a term-member at the Council on Foreign Relations. Additionally, he serves on the board of advisors to the Daniel Pearl Foundation.

Panelists

Dave Belanger is AT&T Labs' Chief Scientist and Information & Software Systems Research Vice President at AT&T Labs in Florham Park, NJ. As Chief Scientist, he is responsible to the CTO for identifying pre-product technology important to the future of AT&T; evaluating technology; building alignment within AT&T on technology directions; and serving as AT&T liaison to external technical communities such as universities, government agencies and industry laboratories. Dave joined AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1979 working in the area of database support for economic analysis for product lifecycles. This was followed by research on large-scale data and information systems and programme generation for data manipulation systems. He has subsequently led research efforts in software systems and engineering, information mining and visualisation.

Lamia Chaffai is the Director general of the Tunisian certification agency (ANCE).

Ilias Chantzos represents Symantec before government bodies, national authorities and international organisations advising on public policy issues with particular regard to IT security and availability issues. Chantzos was recently elected chair of the European Policy Council of Business Software Alliance. Chantzos is regularly invited as a speaker to conferences and events on public policy, information security and privacy. Before joining Symantec in 2004, Chantzos worked as legal and policy officer in the Directorate General Information Society of the European Commission. His tasks were mainly focused around information security policy. He covered the Council of Europe Cybercrime Convention and the Framework Decision on Attacks against Information Systems. Furthermore he worked on a number of EU legislative initiatives relevant to information society and information security, including the directives on Privacy on Electronic Communications and the European Network and Information Security Agency. Chantzos represented the European Commission in various international forums and conferences.

Chengqing Huang, is the Deputy Director of CNCERT/CC of China.

Gus Hosein is a Visiting Fellow in the Information Systems Group at the London School of Economics and Political Science, a Senior Fellow at Privacy International, and an advisor to the American Civil Liberties Union project on Technology and Liberty. He also consults for various governmental and inter-governmental institutions. Most of his writing is related to the study of policy and law, mostly surrounding privacy and civil liberties. His current work looks more at policy discourse, international policy-dynamics, anti-terrorism policies, and the policy-making process.

Rikke Frank Jørgensen is the Special Adviser at The Danish Institute for Human Rights working with national human rights protection. She was adviser to the Danish Delegation to the World Summit on the Information Society (2003-2005) and is co-coordinator of the WSIS civil society's human rights caucus. In 2000 she co-founded the Danish NGO Digital Rights, and is currently on their board. She also serves on the board of European Digital Rights, and the Advisory Board of Privacy International. Rikke has authored a number of articles and presentations on human rights implications of the information society, and is editor of the forthcoming "Human Rights in the Global Information Society" (MIT Press May 2006). Rikke has previously been employed as a special adviser in the Danish Ministry of Science and Technology, dealing with the social impacts of information technology. Rikke holds a Master in Information Science and a European Master in Human Rights and Democratization, specializing in Internet and freedom of expression.

Henrik W. K. Kaspersen, is the President of the Council of Europe Cybercrime Convention Committee and Director of the Computer Law Institute at the Free University of Amsterdam.

Arkady Kremer, is the Chairman of the Russian Association of Networks and Services.

Andrew Maurer, is the manager of online policy in the Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts of Australia.

Margaret Moran is a British politician. She was first elected as the MP for Luton South in May 1997, and re-elected in June 2001. She was educated at St Ursula's High School, Greenwich, St Mary's College, Twickenham and Birmingham University, where she gained honours Degree in Geography and Sociology. She was a Labour councillor for 13 years and was the first woman leader of Lewisham Borough Council. She pioneered the use of new technologies in service delivery and local democracy and helped with the relocation of Millwall Football Club. Until the dissolution of Parliament, she was chair of the all party parliamentary group on Domestic Violence and the Parliamentary Labour Housing Group and the Parliamentary Labour Party Parliamentary Affairs Committee and was Secretary of the Parliamentary Labour Party Northern Ireland Committee. Margaret also founded Labour's E-futures group and in May 2000 was awarded the Government Computing Information Age Innovator of the Year. She is also a member of the All Party Small Business Group; Information Technology group, Kashmir Group and Children's Group. In Parliament, she was responsible for the ground breaking Womenspeak project using interactive ICT to link Parliamentarians and survivors of Domestic Violence.

Terayasu Murakami, is Chief Counselor of Nomura Research Institute (NRI), Director of Tokyo Club Foundation for Global Studies. Acting Chairman of Electronic Commerce Promotion Working Group of Nippon Keidanren and Business Steering Committee Member of GBDe (Global Business Dialogue on electronic commerce)

Frederico Neves, Frederico Neves is CTO of NIC.br, the non-profit registry service for .br ccTLD. He bas been the technical contact for .br since 1998. He has more than 15 year of software development experience and started to get involved with the Internet and the DNS during his master degree in 1994. He holds a Chemical Engineering degree.

Richard Simpson is the Director General, Electronic Commerce with Industry Canada, and is responsible for the development and implementation of the department’s overall strategy for electronic commerce. In this capacity, he has played a central role in designing Canada’s policies on electronic commerce at the domestic and international levels. One of his primary tasks was to direct preparations for the OECD Ministerial Conference on Electronic Commerce held in Ottawa in October 1998. He has continued to play a key role within the OECD as Chair of the Working Party on the Information Economy, the FTAA (as Vice-Chair of the E-Commerce Experts’ Group), the WTO, ITU and other international bodies dealing with aspects of electronic commerce. He was appointed as a member of the Commonwealth’s Expert Group on Information Technology by the Secretary General, and played a prominent role in the work of the G8 DOT Force, which reported to G8 Leaders at their Summit in Kananaskis in June 2002. Mr. Simpson has worked in the field of communications and information technology since 1975, occupying senior executive positions at the national and international levels. He was the Executive Director of Canada’s Information Highway Advisory Council from 1995 to 1997.

Christiaan van der Valk is the Vice President of Compliance Trustweaver. Prior to that, he had joined AddTrust in July 2000 after 7 years as Deputy Director of Policy and Business Practice at the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris. Set up and managed ICC's electronic business programme after leading international efforts in the logistics, telecom and marketing fields. Chief editor of worldwide private sector manifesto A Global Action Plan for Electronic Commerce (1998 and 1999 editions) and eBusiness World (a bi-monthly magazine with subscribers in 55 countries). Advised several NGOs and IGOs; served as board member of various associations and start-ups. Was elected one of the year 2000's Global Leaders for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum in Davos. Unsolicited entry in Marquis's Who's Who in the World, 2002 edition. Law degree, Erasmus University in Rotterdam.