Biography
of Mr. Derek E. BAMBAUER, Research Fellow, Berkman
Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School,
United States of America |
Mr. Derek Bambauer is a Research Fellow at the Berkman
Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. He holds a J.D. from
Harvard Law School and a B.A. from Harvard College. Derek spent five years
working for the software company Lotus Development Corp. (now a division of
IBM) as a principal systems engineer, Web developer, and technical writer.
Among his specialties were Internet messaging, server architecture, and
data recovery. His research interests include spam, Internet filtering and
censorship, intellectual property, spyware, and cognitive effects on human
decisionmaking.
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Biography
of Ms. Maria Cristina BUETI, Policy Analyst,
Strategy and Policy Unit, International
Telecommunication Union |
Ms. Maria Cristina Bueti graduated from the Faculty of Political
Science and International Cooperation and Development at the University
of Florence, where she took postgraduate studies in International
cooperation. During her studies, Ms Bueti took part in the Jean Monnet
course on telecommunications in Europe. She was also awarded a grant from
the Italian Communications Authority in order to attend a key seminar
dealing with convergence issues in telecommunications.
In 2003, Ms. Bueti completed a project for the Faculty of
Laws, University of Malta, before joining the International
Telecommunication Union in Geneva, in January 2004. Working in the
ITU's Strategy and Policy Unit, as a policy analyst she has been
involved in the organization of a wide range of activities from technical
workshops to international conferences. Ms. Bueti participated in the PrepCom
2 of the Tunis Phase of WSIS. Her specialty is cybersecurity, with a
particular focus on the problem of spam.
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Biography
of Mr. Herbert BURKERT, President, Research Center
for Information Law, University of St. Gallen,
Switzerland |
Mr. Herbert Burkert is Professor for Pubic Law, Information
and Communication Law and President of the Research Centre for Information
Law at the University of St.Gallen, Switzerland.
Mr. Burkert
is a Senior Researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute
for Media Communications in Germany (currently on
leave of absence). He is an International Fellow of
the Yale Law School Information Society Project and
has been an International Scholar at the Information
Law and Policy Institute of the New York Law School.
Mr.Burkert has studied law, history and political
science at the University of Cologne and at the
University College Dublin; he received his law
doctorate for the University of Frankfurt and his
habilitation from the University of St.Gallen.
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Biography
of Mr. Richard CHEONG, Assistant Director, Infocomm
Security Division, Infocomm Development Authority,
Singapore |
Mr. Richard Cheong has about 15 years of working
experience in the field of IT security – both in the
private and public sector.
Mr. Cheong is currently the Assistant Director of
Infocomm Security Division in the Infocomm
Development Authority of Singapore (IDA). In this
role, he oversees the exploration of security
technologies and manages the infocomm security
consultancy programme in IDA.
Prior to joining IDA, Mr. Cheong was the IT
Security Manager for a foreign bank in Singapore.
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Biography
of Mr.Tom DALE, General Manager, Strategic Policy
Branch, Australian Department of Communications, IT
& the Arts |
Mr. Tom Dale has been Chair of the OECD Task Force on
Spam since September 2004, and has also been active
on anti-spam initiatives in the APEC
Telecommunications and E-Commerce Working Groups.
Mr. Dale has occupied senior positions in the
Australian Department of Communications, IT and the
Arts since 1989, including communications regulatory
policy, e-business and international relations. He
is currently General Manager of the Department’s
Strategic Policy Branch, responsible for advice on
long-term policy issues including next generation
networks and ICT priorities. Mr. Dale has been
Australian delegation leader to many international
meetings in ITU, WTO, APEC, OECD and APT.
Mr. Dale holds a Bachelor of Arts from the
Australian National University and a Graduate
Diploma in Law from the University of Canberra, he
is a graduate of Mt Eliza Management College.
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Biography
of Mr. Alexander DIX, Berlin Commissioner for Data
Protection and Freedom of Information, Chairman of
the International Working Group on Data Protection
in Telecommunications (IWGDPT) |
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Biography
of Mr. Richard DOWNING, Project Overseer for
Computer Crime, APEC |
Mr. Richard W. Downing is senior counsel in the Computer
Crime and Intellectual Property Section of the Criminal Division of the
United States Department of Justice in Washington D.C. In that role, he
addresses a wide variety of complex legal and policy issues that arise in
connection with new technologies. Mr. Downing has specialized in the
development of U.S. legislative policy that relates to computer crime. He
participated in the development of two important pieces of legislation in
2001 and 2002 that updated the computer hacking statutes and modernized the
legal tools that law enforcement uses to collect electronic evidence. Mr.
Downing also regularly trains U.S. investigators and prosecutors on the
legal and policy implications of emerging technologies and related criminal
conduct.
In 2002, Mr. Downing created and presented a seminar for an international
audience on the legal and substantive laws needed to combat computer crime.
In addition, he oversees an APEC project devoted to assisting countries in
the region to develop comprehensive legal frameworks to combat cybercrime.
From 2003 to 2004, Mr. Downing held the position of Deputy Chair of the APEC
e-Security Task Group.
Mr. Downing graduated summa cum laude from Yale University with a B.A. in
political science, and he received a J.D. from Stanford Law School, where he
served as editor-in-chief of the Stanford Journal of International Law.
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Biography
of Ms. Myriam DUNN, Head, New Security Risks
Research Unit, Center for Security Studies, ETZ
Zurich |
Dr. des. Myriam Dunn is head of the "new security risks"
research unit at the Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich and
coordinator of the Comprehensive Risk Analysis and Management Network (CRN).
Her field of expertise is the impact of the information revolution on
security policy issues. Together with her colleague Isabelle Wigert, she is
the author of the "International CIIP Handbook", which compiles protection
policies in a range of countries.
Ms. Dunn holds a degree in political science, history, and
international law from the University of Zurich.
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Biography
of Mr. Gianluca ESPOSITO, Head of Economic Crime
Section, Crime Problems Department, Council of
Europe |
Mr. Gianluca Esposito is a lawyer, currently Head of the Economic Crime
Section, Crime Problems Department, Directorate General I - Legal Affairs
(DG I), Council of Europe, F - 67075 Strasbourg, France. Mr Esposito is
responsible for the Council of Europe action to fight money laundering and
the financing of terrorism, cybercrime, economic and financial crimes and
sexual exploitation of children.
Mr. Esposito has been working since 1995 in the Directorate General I -
Legal Affairs of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France. He has
completed his studies at the Law School of Naples in 1994 and has then
started his career as a defence criminal lawyer in Naples District, Italy,
dealing mainly with cases on organised crime, corruption and money
laundering. He is a member of the Naples Bar. Mr Esposito moved to the
Council of Europe Directorate General of Legal Affairs in 1995, where he has
been directly involved in law reforms and intergovernmental activities
aiming at strengthening the Rule of Law in Europe.
Mr. Esposito is a specialist in international co-operation in criminal
matters (extradition, mutual legal assistance, etc.), the fight against
corruption, cybercrime, terrorism and its financing and money laundering. He
has particularly been engaged in the drafting, negotiation and finalisation
of numerous international treaties and other international legal instruments
in these areas.
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Biography
of Mr. Philippe GÉRARD, Legal and Regulatory
Officer, Information Society and Media Directorate-Generale,
European Commission |
Mr. Philippe Gérard has been a legal and regulatory officer
with the Information Society Directorate-General of the European Commission
since 2000. This position involves developing the policy and regulatory
framework for electronic communications, concentrating in particular on
privacy and data protection issues. He is also a lecturer on communications
law.
Mr. Philippe Gérard holds a degree in law from the University of Louvain
(Belgium, 1991) and a post-graduate diploma in European and international
law from the Royal University of Leiden (the Netherlands, 1992). He was
admitted to the Brussels' Bar in 1997.
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Biography of of Mr. Adam GOLODNER,
Director, Global Security and Technology Policy,
Cisco Systems |
Mr. Adam Golodner is the Director, Global Security and
Technology Policy for Cisco Systems, Inc.
Mr. Golodner works collaboratively across Cisco to help direct Cisco's
global public policy for security with governments, thought leaders,
partners and others. He helps advance Cisco's strong commitment to security,
and works on a strategic focus for security as a means of enhancing
productivity, efficiency, and competitive advantage for Cisco's customers.
Mr. Golodner is also an Executive Fellow at the Tuck School of Business,
Center for Digital Strategies. Prior to joining Cisco, Mr. Golodner was the
Associate Director for Policy of the Institute for Security Technology
Studies at Dartmouth College, where he focused on issues the intersection of
technology, economics and law. He is also the former Chief of Staff of the
Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice. As Chief of
Staff, he worked on mergers, enforcement matters, and competition policy --
focusing on technology, telecoms, media, regulated industries,
international, and intellectual property issues. He is also the former
Deputy Administrator of the Rural Utilities Service, USDA, where he led
efforts on universal service, broadband, and e-education and e-health.
Before that Mr. Golodner served as a search manager in the White House
Office of Presidential Personnel. Mr. Golodner has served on: the White
House’s E-Commerce Working Group; the White House’s National Information
Infrastructure (NII) Task Force; the National Association of Regulatory
Utility Commissioners (NARUC) Telecommunications Committee; the U.S.
Delegation to the WTO, Seattle Round; and the Department of Justice's
Privacy Council.
An expert on telecoms issues, Mr. Golodner has testified before the
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the National Association of
Regulatory Utilities Commissioners (NARUC). He has presented in many policy
forums, including at the Salzburg Seminar, the Aspen Institute, the National
Academies of Sciences, the Brookings Institution, the Rueschlikon
Conference, the IEEE, Harvard University, the University of Virginia, the
Practicing Law Institute, Cardoza Law School, the DC Bar, and other forums.
Prior to corporate, academia and government service, he was a partner in a
Denver, Colorado law firm and practiced corporate law.
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Biography of Mr. Sy GOODMAN, Georgia
Institute of Technology, United States of America |
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Biography of Mr. John HAYDON, Executive
Manager, Consumer and Universal Service Obligation
Group, Australian Communications Authority
|
Mr. John Haydon is the Executive Manager of Consumer and
Universal Service within the Australian Communications Authority (ACA) - the
national telecommunications and radio communications regulator. His current
responsibilities include: Managing the Universal Service regime (so that all
Australians have reasonable access to the standard telephone, data and
payphone services on an equitable basis, and carriers share the costs);
Enforcing consumer safeguards and industry consumer codes;
Coordinating the ACA consumer information programs for better consumer
awareness and choice; and Administering the anti spam regime under the
Spam Act.
In the recent past Mr. Haydon has led the regulator's role in the other
areas including; licensing and regulation of operators and access to
infrastructure, management of telephone numbers and number portability,
assistance to law enforcement and emergency services, national standards and
compliance for equipment and cabling, and Australian participation in
international telecommunications standardisation activity Mr. Haydon's
background in the telecommunications has encompassed diverse environments
including manufacturing, network operation, business development, defence
and power utility applications, research and field engineering. He joined
AUSTEL (the predecessor to the ACA) in 1991 from the electricity supply
industry.
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Biography
of Gus HOSEIN, Senior Fellow, Privacy International |
Mr. Gus Hosein is a Senior Fellow with Privacy
International, a London-based non-governmental organisation. At Privacy
International he directs the Terrorism and the Open Society Programme, and
is the co-ordinator of the Policy Laundering Project in association with the
American Civil Liberties Union and Statewatch.
Mr. Hosein is a Visiting Fellow in the Department of
Information Systems at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
At the London School of Economics and Political Science he lectures on the
politics of the Information Society, technology, regulation, law, and
policy. He holds a PhD from the University of London and a B. Math from the
University of Waterloo.
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Biography
of Deborah HURLEY |
Ms. Deborah Hurley is the Principal of the consulting firm she founded in
1996, which advises governments, international organizations,
non-governmental organizations, and foundations on information and
communication policy. She was (1997-2002) Director of the Harvard
Information Infrastructure Project at Harvard University, Adjunct Lecturer
in Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
University, and a Senior Research Associate in the Belfer Center for Science
and International Affairs (BCSIA) and in the Center for Business and
Government (CBG) at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
University.
Ms. Hurley was an official (1988-96) of the Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris, France. At the OECD, she first
held the post of Administrator in the Information, Computer and
Communications Policy (ICCP) Division of the Directorate for Science,
Technology and Industry (DSTI). She had responsibility for identifying
emerging issues related to protection of personal data and privacy, security
of information systems, cryptography technology and policy, and protection
of intellectual property. Ms. Hurley organized annual meetings on issues
related to the protection of personal data and privacy, including reviews of
the 1980 OECD Guidelines for the Protection of Privacy and Transborder Flows
of Personal Data, privacy enhancing technologies, protection of medical
data, and rule-making related to privacy, such as legislative initiatives,
enactments, implementation, and enforcement at regional, national and
sub-national levels, private sector codes of conduct, and standards. Ms.
Hurley, after writing the seminal report on information network security for
the OECD member nations in 1989, was responsible for the drafting,
negotiation and adoption by OECD member countries of the 1992 OECD
Guidelines for Security of Information Systems. She also initiated the OECD
activities on cryptography technologies and policy in the early 1990s. In
April 1993, Hurley was promoted to Principal Administrator in the Science
and Technology Policy (STP) Division. She retained her former duties from
the ICCP Division and assumed responsibility for launching the OECD Working
Group on Innovation and Technology Policy and related work on technology
policy, including international technology cooperation, foreign access to
national technology programs, nanotechnology, and technology foresight. In
addition to responsibility for legal, economic, social and technological
issues related to information and communications technologies, she carried
out activities in several other advanced technology fields, including
intellectual property protection and technology transfer of biotechnology
and the effects of international treaty obligations, and the development of
new environmental and energy technologies to respond to global climate
change.
Shortly before her arrival at the OECD, Ms. Hurley received a Fulbright
grant to undertake a study of intellectual property protection and
technology transfer in Korea. She carried out this study during her annual
leave from the OECD in 1989 and 1990, spending a total of five months in
Korea.
From 1983 through 1988, Ms. Hurley practiced intellectual property law in
the United States, including copyright, trade secret, trademark, and
computer law. As a consultant to UNIDO and as a lecturer at the
International Law Institute in Washington, DC, she also instructed
government officials from developing countries in the intellectual property
laws of developed nations and the contrast of these laws with intellectual
property laws and technology transfer rules of developing countries.
Ms. Hurley is the recipient of the 2002 Namur Award, which is a biennial
award given by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP)
in recognition of outstanding contributions, with international impact, to
awareness of the social implications of information technology. She was also
selected, following a global search, as one of seven finalists in the Policy
category of the inaugural World Technology Awards, which were created to
honor those innovators whose work is of the greatest likely long-term
significance for the benefit of business and society.
Ms. Hurley has served on committees and boards of the U.S. State
Department, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the
Electronic Privacy Information Center, and the Anti-Terrorism Advisory
Council of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. She has served as Chair of:
the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Strategic Planning Workshop
on Creating Trust in Critical Network Infrastructures in May 2002; the
American Library Association Forum on New Technology, the Information
Commons, and the Future of Libraries in November 2001; the ITU Strategic
Planning Workshop on the Regulatory Implications of Broadband in May 2001;
and the 2001 Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference in March 2001.
She is the author of "Pole Star: Human Rights in the Information
Society" (International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic
Development, 2003), which has been translated and issued in French, Spanish
and Arabic. She is also the author of "Foreign Policy in the Ubiquitous
Information Environment" in Science and Diplomacy: The State of Science
at the Department of State (American Association for the Advancement of
Science, 2000), and, with Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, of "Globalization of
Communications" and "Information Policy and Governance" in John
Donahue and Joseph Nye, Jr., eds., Governance in a Globalizing World
(Brookings Institution Press, 2000). Other publications include "The
First 100 Feet: Options for Internet and Broadband Access, edited with
James H. Keller (The MIT Press, 1999), and "Security and Privacy Laws:
The Showstoppers of the Global Information Society" in Masters of the
Wired World (Pitman Publishing, 1999).
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of Augustin IDO, CAPTEF and Francophonie, Institut
francophone des nouvelles technologies |
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of Shamsul JAFNI SHAFIE, Head, Information and
Network Security Department, Monitoring and
Enforcement Division, Malaysian Communications and
Multimedia Commission (MCMC), ASEAN
Telecommunications Regulators' Council (ATRC) |
Mr. Shamsul Jafni Shafie is a lawyer by qualification. He graduated from
University Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) and started his career as a Deputy
Public Prosecutor in the Commercial Crime Unit in the Attorney General
Chambers. He later joined the Securities Commission in the Prosecution
Department and remained as a Prosecutor until June 2000.
Mr. Jafni Shafie is presently attached to the Malaysian Communications
and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), a statutory body that is the regulator for
the communications and multimedia industry in Malaysia.
Within the MCMC, he has been a Prosecutor and later as a Policy Analyst.
in the Industry Development Division. There his work was mainly focused on
building E-Commerce Trust, the Digital Signature, Information and Network
Security and the self-regulatory forums.
Presently, Mr Jafni Shafie is the Head of the Information and Network
Security Department in the Monitoring and Enforcement Division. The
Information and Network Security Department is responsible for implementing
initiatives to support the 10th National Policy Objectives of the
Communications and Multimedia Act for the communications and multimedia
industry, which is to ensure information security and the reliability and
integrity of the network.
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Biography of Mr.
Jonathan KRADEN, Staff Attorney, Federal Trade
Commission (FTC), United States |
Mr. Jonathan Kraden is a staff attorney at the Federal Trade
Commission and is currently assigned to the Bureau of Consumer Protection,
Division of Marketing Practices. His work at the FTC includes coordinating
the agency's enforcement efforts under the CAN-SPAM Act and investigating
and litigating cases involving spam, internet videotext services and
telemarketing fraud. In addition, Mr. Kraden was the lead counsel on the
FTC's rule pursuant to the CAN-SPAM Act that requires the labeling of
sexually oriented spam. Prior to joining the FTC in July 2002, Mr. Kraden
was a trial attorney with the Manhattan District Attorney's Office
specializing in the prosecution of white-collar crime. Mr. Kraden received
his J.D. from the Duke University School of Law and his B.A. in Accounting
from Binghamton University.
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Biography of Mr.
Arkadiy KREMER, Chairman, Russian Association for
Networks and Services (RANS) |
Mr. Arkadiy Kremer is the Chairman of Russian
Association for Networks and Services which joins
over 130 governmental and business organizations in
Russia. He is head of the department of Moscow
Telecommunication University and the author of
approximately 50 publications on IT&T and security
issues.
Mr. Kremer is a Vice Chairman of the ITU-T SG17
and leader of the ITU-T project "Security Baseline
for Network Operators".
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Biography
of Mr. John LEVINE, Founder, Taughannock Networks |
Mr. John R. Levine is the founder of Taughannock Networks
Mr. Levine writes, lectures, and consults on the Internet, email and
spam, and related computer topics. He chairs the IRTF Anti-Spam Research
Group, is a board member of the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial
E-mail (CAUCE) and a North American representative to the ICANN At Large
Advisory Committee. He speaks frequently at conferences, and has written or
co-authored over twenty books, including the popular Internet for Dummies.
now in its 10th edition.
Mr. Levine has been active in a variety of governmental activites
including as a member of the Industry Canada Task Force on Spam, and
advising the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in its implementation of the CAN
SPAM act. Since 2004 he has been the mayor of his home village of
Trumansburg, N.Y.
Dr. Levine holds a B.A. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Yale
University.
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of Mr. Steve LINFORD, Spamhaus Project |
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of Mr. Liang LIU, Assistant Director, Anti-Spam Coordination
Team, Internet Society of China (ISC) |
Mr. Liang Liu has worked in Anti-Spam Coordination
Team of Internet Society of China as the assistant director since 2003.
Current areas of focus include anti-spam operations and
administration of email service. Mr. Liu is also responsible for organizing
to launch email server masters’ training programs and communicating
activities for effective controlling spam.
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Biography of Mr. Luc MATHAN, Luc MATHAN,
Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) |
Mr Luc Mathan is currently
responsible for spam and privacy issues at International Public Affairs
department of France Telecom.
Education at McGill University (Canada) and Telecom Paris (France); PhD in
signal processing; started career in France Telecom R&D center on speech
recognition, moved on to telecommunication management network; then to
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Biography of Mr. Michel MAECHLER, Senior ICT
Specialist, World Bank |
Mr. Michel Maechler has been working in the field of
cybersecurity for over 14 years. He joined the World Bank in 2003 as a
consultant and specializes on e-security, information and communication
technologies (ICT), and e-Government strategy formulation. Michel has worked
on a range of ICT sector reform projects in Eastern Europe and Central Asia,
the Caribbean, as well as the Middle East and Northern Africa. Prior to
joining the World Bank, he was working for Ernst & Young, providing
information systems audit and advisory services to large international
organizations and public entities, specializing on mitigating ICT-related
risks. . Michel studied computer science, holds a post-graduate degree in
Business Administration from the University of Strathclyde and is a
certified information system auditor and information security manager. He
speaks French, English and German.
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Biography of Mr. William MCCRUM, Deputy Director
General, Canadian Department of Industry, Canada |
Mr. Bill McCrum is presently Deputy Director General,
Spectrum Engineering, in the Canadian Department of Industry. His
responsibilities include telecommunications regulation, network
vulnerability analysis, and implementation of various Trade Agreements
including the telecom chapter of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Mr. McCrum is Executive Secretary of the Telecommunications Standards
Advisory Council of Canada (TSACC), and is chair of a number of national
standards committees. Mr. McCrum has published a wide range of technical
papers and authored a technical book on network interconnection issues.
Mr. McCrum has a Bachelor and Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering
from the Queen`s University of Belfast. His job history includes employment
at General Electric Labs in the US, and at Bell-Northern Research Labs in
Ottawa.
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Biography of Ms. Maneesha MITHAL,
Assistant Director of the Federal Trade Commission’s
International Division of Consumer Protection,
United States of America |
Ms. Maneesha
Mithal is Assistant Director of the Federal Trade Commission’s International
Division of Consumer Protection. Ms. Mithal’s areas of expertise include
international privacy and security, international spam, cross-border fraud,
international litigation, ICANN-related issues, and building consumer trust
in a global marketplace. Ms. Mithal has served on the U.S. delegations of
various international organizations, including the OECD Committee on
Consumer Policy, the OECD Information, Communications and Computer Policy
Committee, the APEC Electronic Commerce Steering Group, and the Hague
Conference on Private International Law. Prior to joining the Federal Trade
Commission in 1999, she was an associate at the Washington law firm of
Covington & Burling, where she practiced in the commercial litigation,
international litigation, and legislative areas. Ms. Mithal earned her law
degree from the Georgetown University Law Center and her undergraduate
degree from Georgetown University.
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Biography of Mr. Miguel A. MONTERO, Spam Ruling Administrator, Radiografica
Costarricense (RACSA), Costa Rica |
Ing. Miguel A. Montero graduated form the University of
Costa Rica and spent 18 years with ICE, Costa Rica’s telecommunications
provider, where he served as an Outside Plant Manager, including amongst his
duties, customer care and solutions. Mr Montero subsequently served as
Operations manager for Acer and Sykes’Call Centres in Costa Rica. Five years
ago, he joined RACSA, Costa Rica’s ISP, where he has worked as a Call Centre
Manager and Spam Ruling Administrator, producing, updating and enforcing the
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Biography of Mr. Alexander NTOKO, Chief,
E-Strategies Unit, Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT), ITU
|
Mr. Alexander Ntoko is the Chief of E-strategies
Unit at the ITU Telecommunication Development
Bureau. His main responsibility includes the
implementation ITU E-strategies Programme that has
Cyber Security, E-Applications, E-Legislation and
Internet Protocol as four (4) of the six (6)
priorities areas for the Programme.
Mr. Ntoko's activities in IT security began in
the late 80s in the United States where he obtained
Bachelors and Master of Science degrees in Computer
Science from the State University of New York in
1985 and 1987 respectively and specializing in
Operating Systems and Data Communication Networks.
From the early 1990s while in the ITU Information
Services Department, he played a key role in the
introduction of IT security services to ITU
especially in the domain of e-commerce. Since his
move to the ITU Development Sector in 1998, he has
implemented projects on cyber security based on
Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) in a number of
developing countries, organized and spoken at many
international events, written papers on technology
strategies for cyber security and has assisted many
developing countries on technology strategies for
cyber security in ICT applications (e.g., e-health,
e-government, e-payment and e-business).
Mr. Ntoko is Cameroonian and has been with ITU HQ
in Geneva for more than 15 years.
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Biography of Mr. John PALFREY, Executive
Director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School
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As Executive Director of the Berkman Center, Mr. John
Palfrey is responsible for working with the faculty
directors to set and carry out the Center's
ambitious, public-spirited agenda and overseeing the
work of its crack team of staff, fellows and
students. As Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School,
Mr. Palfrey has taught "Cyberlaw and the Global
Economy", "Digital Democracy," and "Internet &
Society: the Technologies and Politics of Control".
His research interests include the Internet and
democracy, intellectual property, and technology law
as it relates to commercial transactions. Recent
work includes "Public Participation in ICANN" (along
with co-authors Noah Eisenkraft, Clifford Chen, and
Sam Hwang). Other working papers include "The End of
the Experiment: How ICANN's Foray into Global
Internet Democracy Failed" (forthcoming, in the
Harvard Journal of Law and Technology) and "The
Accountable Net" (with David R. Johnson and Susan P.
Crawford).
A long-time affiliate of the Berkman Center, Mr.
Palfrey comes to the Berkman Center from the law
firm Ropes & Gray, where he worked on intellectual
property, Internet law, and private equity
transactions. Mr. Palfrey is a co-founder and a
former officer of a venture-backed technology
company. He also served as a Special Assistant at
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency during the
Clinton administration. He serves on the Board of
Directors of the Charles River Watershed
Association, which does terrific work to clean up
our local river. While attending Harvard Law School,
he was a Teaching Fellow in Internet Law and served
as an editor of the Harvard Environmental Law
Review.
Mr. Palfrey graduated from Harvard College, the
University of Cambridge, and Harvard Law School. His
awards include the Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial
Scholar to the University of Cambridge and the U.S.
EPA Gold Medal (highest national award). John is
admitted to the New York and Massachusetts bars.
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Biography of Mr.
Claudio PEGUERO, Chief, High Tech Crime
Investigation Department, National Police, Dominican Republic |
Colonel Claudio Peguero was born in Santo Domingo,
Dominican Republic on May 18th, 1972. Went to
elementary and high school in the Dominican De La
Salle School (Colegio Dominicano De La Salle),
graduating in 1988.
That same year he joins the National Police,
working in the Homicide Investigations Department.
In 1992 he graduates as Systems Engineer in the
Technologycal Institute of Santo Domingo (Instituto
Tecnológico de Santo Domingo -INTEC), promoted to
the rank of second lieutenant, then went to work in
the Crimes Against Property (Robbery) Investigations
Department.
In 1999 Mr. Peguero is designated Commander of
the Systems and Information Technology Department
for the Nacional Police, position he keeps to date.
In July 2003,Mr. Peguero is designated, in addition
to his other responsabilities, Head of the
Cybercrime Investigation Division in the National
Department of Investigations (DNI), created in that
same date. In November 2004 the High Technology
Crimes Investigation Department (DICAT) is created
in the National Police, and he is moved to command
that new department.
Mr. Peguero has participated in conferences and
workshops on the subject in Argentina, Bolivia,
Chile, México, Peru, England, Spain, Thailand and
the Dominican Republic, most of them organized by
the OAS and the UN. He has participated in trainings
in the network security area in the SANS Institute
and Cisco´s CCNA. Mr. Peguero was a member of
the interinstitutional, multidisciplinary group of
experts that drafted and submitted to the Republic´s
Senate the Bill Draft (Law Project) against High
Technology Crimes.
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Biography of Mr. Suresh RAMASUBRAMANIAN,
Manager, Antispam Operations, Outblaze |
Mr.
Suresh Ramasubramanian is Manager, Antispam Operations
at Outblaze, a large provider of managed messaging
services for over 40 million users. He has several
years experience in ISP antispam operations,
starting with a stint on the abuse desk at Juno (now
United Online).
Mr. Ramasubramanian is a founder member and
currently coordinator of APCAUCE (the Asia Pacific
chapter of the Coalition Against Unsolicited
Commercial Email). APCAUCE organizes two antispam
conferences a year, in different cities in the Asia
Pacific region. He is also founder president of
CAUCE India. Mr. Ramasubramanian also serves on the
management committees of two Asia Pacific regional
network operators conferences - APRICOT and SANOG.
He has been interviewed about spam by journals
ranging from Businessweek and the Wall Street
Journal to Wired, PC Mag and Salon. Mr.
Ramasubramanian is currently writing a book on mail
systems administration, to be published by O'Reilly
Associates.
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Biography of Mr. Anthony-Michael RUTKOWSKI, Vice President for
Regulatory Affairs and Standards, VeriSign, Inc |
Mr. Anthony Rutkowski is Vice-President for Regulatory Affairs at VeriSign,
Inc. - and deals with development, articulation, and implementation of its
regulatory and standards strategies domestically and internationally for
Next Generation Networks. He also participates significantly in diverse law
enforcement and security related forums.
Mr. Rutkowski is a prominent engineer-lawyer whose career has spanned more
than 40 years in industry and government in the U.S. and abroad - focusing
primarily on pursuing cutting edge business and technology developments.
Beginning with leading design projects for Apollo launch support
communications and control systems at Kennedy Space Center. Over the past
several decades, he has been a corporate and government technology
strategist, public official, organization leader, consultant, lecturer,
publisher, and author of several books, agency proceedings, and scores of
articles in the Internet, telecom, mass media, and aerospace worlds.
He has enjoyed commercial business positions with SAIC Network Solutions,
General Magic, Sprint International, Horizon House, Pan American
Engineering, General Electric, and Evening News Association; government and
elected positions with the Federal Communications Commission, the
International Telecommunication Union, and Cape Canaveral City Council; and
educational positions with the Internet Society, MIT, and NY Law School.
At the ITU, Mr. Rutkowski was Chief of International Telecommunication
Regulations and Relations Between Members, Counsellor to the
Secretary-General, and headed the Secretariat at the International
Telecommunication Regulations treaty conference.
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Biography of Mr. Jean-Jacques SAHEL, Assistant Director,
International Communications branch of the Department of Trade and Industry
(DTI), London, United Kingdom |
Mr. Jean-Jacques Sahel is an Assistant Director in the
International Communications branch of the Department of Trade and
Industry (DTI) in London. His role is to lead on the UK's International
Communications Policy and represent UK interests in a number of
international fora dealing with telecommunications and the information
economy. He is particularly active on the issue of spam, and at the
OECD, ITU and the WTO; he was also recently one of the UK delegates to
the UN's World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).
Mr. Sahel
has been working for DTI for a couple of years; before that he was an
advisor in the Cabinet Office, which he had joined after holding a
number of positions in industry. A graduate in management and languages,
Mr. Sahel is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM)
and he holds a Masters degree in International Law and Politics from
King's College School of Law.
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Biography of Mr. Nabil SAHLI, Chief Executive
Officer, National Agency for Computer Security, Tunisia |
Professor Nabil Sahli is
the CEO of the National Agency for Computer Security (NACS) in Tunisia. He
was previously in charge of elaborating a National Strategy and Plan in IT
security, which lead to the promulgation of an “original” law on IT Security
and to the creation of the National Agency for Computer Security, and of a
CSIRT, ISAC and CERT inside the NACS (CERT/TCC).
Mr. Sahli is a professor in Computer Science at the Navy
Academy and Advisor of the Minister of Technologies of Communications. Past
years, besides teaching in the university, he was scientific consultant of
the International company Biodata IT AG Inc and founder of an R&D entity of
this company in Tunisia, which produced several security products (PC
Firewall Sphinx, Distributed Firewalls PCFire and Seventh, etc.). He is also
author of several guides, papers and courses in IT security and redactor of
the mailing-lists of the NACS.
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Biography of Mr. Jeffrey SANDERS, United Nations
University International Institute of Software Technology (UNU-IIST) |
Mr. Jeffrey Sanders is attending the Cybersecurity
Thematic Meeting on Cybersecurity as representative of Mike Reed, Director
of the United Nations University's International Institute for Software
Technology in Macau. Both have spent more than two decades in the
Programming Research Group at the University of Oxford, UK, where Jeff is
still based. His interests lie in the applications of Mathematical methods
to reason about complex or novel forms of computation (like probabilistic
algorithms, distributed protocols, security and hardware design) and he is
also interested in the philosophy of information.
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Biography of Mr. Stein SCHJOLBERG, Chief Judge, Moss Tingrett,
Moss District Court, Norway |
Mr. Stein Schjolberg is the Chief Judge at Moss Tingrett,
a District Court in Norway.
Mr. Schjolberg is a former Assistant Commissioner of
Police in Oslo, Norway. He was appointed as a Judge in 1983 and a Chief
Judge in 1994. He has published widely on Computer Crime legislation and
Judicial Decisions Support Systems.
Some of Mr. Schjolbergs more recent talks related to
cybercrime include speeches at The 11th United Nations Crime Congress,
Bangkok, Thailand (2005), Council of Europe Conference, Strasbourg, France
(2004), Council of Europe Conference, Sinaia, Romania (2004), The Oslo
Cybercrime Workshop, Oslo, Norway (2003), The 13th World Congress of
Criminology, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2003), The Fifth Interpol International
Conference on Computercrime, Seoul, Korea (2202), and a Conference on
International Cooperation to Combat Cyber Crime and Terrorism, Stanford
University, USA (1999).
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Biography of Mr. Bruce SCHNEIER, Counterpane |
To be added.
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Biography of Ms. Betty-Ellen SHAVE, Senior
Counsel/Coordinator for International Computer Crime Matters, Department of
Justice, Unites States |
Ms. Betty-Ellen Shave is a
Senior Counsel and the Coordinator for International Computer Crime Matters
in the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS) of the
Criminal Division of the US Department of Justice. She supervises the
international aspects of CCIPS' criminal caseload; critical information
infrastructure protection matters; training and speaking engagements; and
policy-making. In addition, she is in charge of CCIPS' activities in many
multilateral fora such as the European Commission, the Asia Pacific Economic
Cooperation Forum, and the Organization of American States. Ms. Shave headed
the US delegation to the High-Tech Crime Subgroup of the countries of the G8
for three years and participated actively in the negotiations of the draft
Cybercrime Convention at the Council of Europe from the beginning in 1997.
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Biography of Mr. Robert SHAW, Policy Advisor,
Strategy and Policy Unit, International Telecommunication Union (ITU) |
To be added.
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Biography of Ms. Pernilla SKANTZE, Policy
Advisor, European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA), Belgium |
Ms. Pernilla Skantze is a lawyer specialised in
IT-related issues. Since February this year she holds the position as policy
advisor at ENISA, the European Network and Information Security Agency. Previously she has worked with IT-related legal and policy
issues as a lecturer at Stockholm University, at Vinge law firm and in the
Swedish Ministry of Industry.
Before moving to ENISA Ms. Skantze worked for the European Commission, where
she was responsible for the ENISA Regulation and for general information
security policy development at DG Information Society.
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Biography of Mr. Klaus STEDING-JESSEN, Technical Manager, CERT.br |
Mr. Klaus Steding-Jessen is the technical manager of
CERT.br (formerly known as NBSO), working there since 1999. He is conducting
his doctorate studies in Computer Security at the Brazilian National
Institute for Space Research.
Mr. Steding-Jessen has been working with Incident
Response and Forensic Analysis, cooperating with the Brazilian law
enforcement in several computer crime cases. He is also the co-author of the
chkrootkit tool. Mr. Klaus Steding-Jessen is a CERT-Certified Computer
Security Incident Handler and an authorized instructor of Carnegie Mellon
CERT/CC courses.
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Biography of Ms. Valerie STEEVES, Assistant
Professor, University of Ottowa |
Ms. Valerie Steeves is an Assistant Professor in the
Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa in Ottawa, Canada. Her
main area of research is human rights and technology issues.
Ms. Steeves has written and spoken extensively on privacy from a
human rights perspective, and is currently a researcher with the On the
Identity Trail project at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Common Law. On
the Identity Trail is a multi-million dollar project funded by the Social
Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to examine the potential
to preserve privacy and anonymity in a networked society.
Ms. Steeves is also an active participant in the privacy policy
making process in Canada. In 1997, as a Special Advisor to the House of
Commons Standing Committee on Human Rights, she organized and facilitated a
series of public consultations exploring the meaning of privacy as a human
right, and was one of the principal drafters of the Committee’s report,
Where Do we Draw the Line? She has appeared as an expert witness before a
number of Parliamentary Committees regarding privacy legislation, and was a
Special Advisor to Senator Finestone with respect to the Privacy Rights
Charter. She is currently a member of the Canadian Standards Association’s
Technical Committee on Privacy and the Chair of the National Privacy
Coalition.
Ms. Steeves is the author of a number of award-winning educational
games designed to teach children how to protect their human rights in
cyberspace. Her multi-media game Sense and NonSense won the Canadian Race
Relations Foundation’s Award of Excellence in Race Relations Education and
her interactive cyberplay about online privacy is used by Girl Guides across
the country in the You Go Girl in Technology badge program.
In 2004, Ms. Steeves she was awarded the Labelle Lectureship at
McMaster University. The Labelle is a juried prize that recognizes scholars
engaged in multi-disciplinary research who are challenging existing methods
or accepted ideas.
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Biography of Mr. Mark SUNNER, Chief Technology Officer, MessageLabs |
Mr. Mark Sunner is the CTO of MessageLabs, the leading
provider of managed email security services to
businesses worldwide and part of the MessageLabs
Group.
Since joining MessageLabs Group in 1996 Mr.
Sunner has been the technical driving force behind a
number of groundbreaking products and services which
have consequently set new standards worldwide. These
include a fully comprehensive Internet Server
Appliance (co-developed with Cisco), an email to fax
service, real-time bandwidth usage and a
revolutionary statistics interface.
Mr. Sunner sits on the board of directors, and
heads up the Research and Development teams for the
two divisions: Star and MessageLabs. While
overseeing Internet provision and the continued
innovation of Star's NetTools and e-commerce
products, Mr. Sunner has led the development of the
revered MessageLabs internet-level email security
scanning services.
Prior to joining the MessageLabs Group, Mr.
Sunner was a senior trainer at QA Training, the UK’s
leading IT training scheme, writing the ‘original’
Internet Training Course in the early 90’s which was
delivered to a large number of blue-chip companies
at the CTO/CEO level. Mr. Sunner is also a Certified
Novell Engineer (CNE), Certified Novell Instructor (CNI),
Enterprise Certified Novell Instructor (ECNE) and a
Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT).
Mr. Sunner has over 10 years’ public speaking
experience and is renowned as a keynote speaker
within the industry. He has spoken on the Internet
to over 5000 executives in the UK and has addressed
audiences around the world such as at the yearly
Virus Bulletin Conferences. Not only is Mr. Sunner a
well-respected spokesperson but he is also a key
media figure, having done numerous interviews for
the BBC, CNN, Channel 4 and Sky Television on
internet and security issues.
Mr. Sunner counts his most significant
achievement as stopping and naming the LoveBug virus
hours before it was even identified by any other
anti-virus vendor.
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Biography of Mr. Basil UDOTAI, Coordinator,
Nigerian Cybercrime Working Group (NCWG) |
Mr. Basil Udotai is the Coordinator of the Nigerian
Cybercrime Working Group (NCWG), a multi-agency body of the government of
Nigeria consisting of key federal law enforcement, security, intelligence
and ICT agencies as well as strategic private sector ICT organizations in
Nigeria. The body was established in March 2004 to implement the country’s
National Cybersecurity Initiative (NCI), aimed primarily at forging
appropriate legal and institutional framework necessary to secure computer
systems and networks and protect critical information infrastructure in the
country. Mr. Udotai heads the NCWG Secretariat and works directly with the
National Security Adviser to execute the mandates of the body, including but
not limited to drafting a law to criminalize computer abuses, with
procedures for investigation and prosecution of offenders; developing a
national cybersecurity policy with special emphasis on critical information
infrastructure protection; undertaking institutional awareness and public
enlightenment on cybercrime and the need to foster cybersecurity; promoting
capacity building amongst law enforcement, security and intelligence
agencies as well as initiating international law enforcement cooperation
with global law enforcement agencies and other relevant international
institutions.
Before his appointment to head the NCWG
Secretariat, Mr. Udotai was General Counsel and
Legal Adviser of the National Information Technology
Development Agency (NITDA), a Federal institution
charged with the responsibility of implementing the
National IT Policy and coordinating the development
of information technology (IT) in Nigeria. In that
position, he steered the implementation of the legal
aspects of the National IT Policy towards promoting
enactment of laws necessary to create the enabling
environment for IT development and growth in
Nigeria; while structuring various public private
partnerships to execution a range of ICT projects in
the country. Mr. Udotai serves in several ICT
Committees and bodies of the Government of Nigeria
as well as on the Board of the National Enterprise
Technology Center and the National eGovernment
Strategies Limited.
Mr. Udotai obtained his Bachelor of laws (LL.B) and Master of laws degree
(LL.M) from the University of Lagos, Nigeria and also received LL.M from the
Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium as well as the University of Georgia,
USA, in European Union Law and Antitrust, respectively.
Before returning to Nigeria a few years ago, Mr. Udotai worked in and
consulted for a few law firms in Washington, DC and served for 3 years in
the Government of the District of Columbia, Washington, DC where he worked
in the area of technology contracting, intellectual property and Internet
law.
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Biography of Mr. Mabito YOSHIDA, Director of IT
Security Office, Information and Communications Policy Bureau, Ministry of
Internal Affairs and Communications, Japan
|
Mr. Mabito Yoshida, Director of IT Security Office of the
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan, is responsible for
the security of telecommunication infrastructure. He also actively
contributed to formulation of the national strategy of information security,
which was initiated by the Japan's prime minister's office recently. Since
he started working for the ministry in 1985, he has experienced several
posts in the Telecommunication Bureau which is responsible for overseeing
telecommunication operators in Japan. From 1995 to 1998, he served for the
Permanent Delegation of Japan to OECD in Paris as First Secretary in charge
of telecommunications.
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Biography of Mr. Eric WALTER, Chef du Bureau,
Direction du Développement des Médias, Services du Premier Ministre, France |
Après avoir été chargé de mission au cabinet du Ministre de
la culture et de la communication français, Eric Walter est nommé en 2002
chef du bureau des évaluations économiques et de la société de l'information
au sein de la Direction du développement des médias, placée sous l’autorité
du Premier ministre français et en charge du développement de l’ensemble des
médias: presse écrite et audiovisuel classique, aussi bien que nouvelles
formes de communication en ligne.
C'est en juillet 2003 que le Gouvernement français a chargé
la Direction du développement des médias de coordonner l'action française en
matière de lutte contre le spam, dont la responsabilité est depuis assumée
par le bureau dirigé par Eric Walter. Au titre de cette activité, le bureau
assure l'animation du groupe de contact anti-spam réunissant les acteurs
publics et privés intéressés à la lutte contre le spam et a lancé en avril
dernier le premier réseau de lutte contre le spam des autorités africaines
francophones à l’issue de la Conférence des administrations des postes et
des télécommunications d’expression française (CAPTEF)
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Biography of Mr. Bing Zhang,
Senior Engineer, CNCERT/CC, People's Republic of China |
Mr. Zhang Bing is currently a Senior Engineer in the
National Computer network Emergency Response technical Team/ Coordination
Center of China (CNCERT/CC), Department of Administration & Operation. Mr.
Zhang’s working functions include coordinating with other network security
organizations and CSIRTs to prevent and handle Network Security Incidents
related to the public Internet of China, acting as a leader or coordinator
of some technical projects of CNCERT/CC, working with others on the CSIRTs
standards and Internet Network Security Response Plan.
Mr. Zhang is also active in the
anti-spam coordination team of Internet Society of
China. Before joining CNCERT/CC, Mr. Zhang was
working as a full-time researcher in China Internet
Network Information Center (CNNIC), he had led and
participated several projects on ENUM/DNS study and
applications, including the security problems in the
application. Mr. Zhang received his doctor degree in
Engineering in 2001 and the master degree in 1998
from the Harbin Institute of Technology.
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