| Mr. Mark Williams is an economist with over 20 years of experience in the economics, regulation, and strategy of the digital sector, covering a range of specialist areas including strategy, policy, regulation, financial analysis corporate restructuring, and litigation. Mark has worked in some of the world’s leading economic consulting firms -NERA, Frontier Economics, Deloitte, and Berkeley Research Group (BRG). Previously in his career, he spent six years as an economist in the World Bank’s Global ICT team focusing on analytical work and operations in the Middle East and Africa.
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Mr. Marco Obiso is the Head of the Cybersecurity division and currently acting as Chief of the Digital Network Society Department in the Telecommunication Development Bureau of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the lead UN-specialized agency for Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). He has been working in the ICT field for the past two decades, operating in several ICT-related domains such as network infrastructure development, system integration, application cooperation, IT Service Management, Internet governance and information security. As Head of the Cybersecurity division, he is currently facilitating the work of ITU in elaborating Cybersecurity strategies and implementing programmes and initiatives as well as leading the ITU’s efforts on enabling the use of ICT applications, for the benefit of ITU Member States, including providing technical assistance in establishing capabilities and working to strengthen coordination and cooperation within the UN system.
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| Ms. Marjo Baayen is the Director of the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise (GFCE) – a multi-stakeholder platform for countries, international organizations and private companies to exchange best practices and expertise on cyber capacity building. The GFCE is the outcome of the Global Conference on Cyber Space 2015 and Marjo has had a key role as Project Leader in the organization of this Conference. With over 20 years of management experience in international cooperation programmes and project management in Asia, Africa, Europe and the USA, she currently leads the operational management of the GFCE Secretariat and is responsible for the overall coordination of GFCE Meetings and Working Groups. Marjo holds an MSc in Public Administration and Policy.
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| Mr. John Reyels joined the German foreign Service in 2003 and spent his first years in the Ministry’s Legal Department focusing on consular affairs. His first foreign posting took him to Warsaw where he served as the Embassy’s spokesman from 2007 to 2010. He continued with press work upon his return to Berlin working first as spokesman for European Affairs and, from 2012, for Middle Eastern Affairs. John was posted to Tanzania in 2014 as deputy to the Ambassador. In 2017 he joined the Ministry’s team for disarmament and arms- control focusing on the challenges raised by the military use of new technologies. John took over as head of the cyber coordination staff in January 2021. Personal background: After completing his schooling at the United World College of Southern Africa in Mbabane, Swaziland, John studied law at the universities of Freiburg im Breisgau and Heidelberg. He then worked as a peace-volunteer in Poland before earning a Master in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School. Before joining the foreign service, John worked as an associate banker with Goldman Sachs, London, in their Equity Capital Markets team.
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Mr. Pieter van den Berg has a master degree in Molecular Biology from the Wageningen University. He joined the Netherlands’ Ministry of Justice and Security in 2016 as Sr. Coordinator International Cybersecurity Policy at the National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism. Between 1992 and 2016 Pieter held several policy, advisory and management positions in the (international) security domain at the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations and the ministry of Foreign Affairs. In the first half of 2016 he also headed the cybersecurity program for the Netherlands EU presidency. And in 2018 he was closely involved in the realization and implementation of the National Cyber Security Agenda of the Netherlands. Since mid 2021 Pieter is project manager for the establishment of the new Cybersecurity Strategy of the Netherlands (NLCS). Pieter is also the alternate representative of the Netherlands to the Management Board of ENISA, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity.
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| Ms. Indira Sharshenova Previously, she was the head of Department of Infrastructure Development of e-Government of the Ministry of Digital Development of the Kyrgyz Republic. Indira Sharshenova is a specialist in the field of information and communication technologies, she has been researching the automation of control systems for a long time. For many years, she has participated in the implementation of digital reforms in the Kyrgyz Republic. She has extensive professional experience in implementation of digital solutions and studied the experience of other countries in building e-government. Indira Sharshenova was at the origins of the creation, formation and introduction of E-Kyzmat automated information system.
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| Prof. Doctor Eng. Lourino Alberto Chemane is a Professor computer systems and of the administration and security of information systems at Eduardo Mondlane University in Mozambique working in the Information and Communication Technology field since 1993. He is the Chairman of the Board of the Mozambique National Institute of Information and Communication Technology (INTIC), the ICT Regulator, since April 2021. He holds a PhD Degree (2011) in Computer and Systems Science from Stockholm University, a Master Degree (2007) in eGovernance from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, a Master Degree (1999) in Electronics Engineering (MEng) from the University of Pretoria. He has a Diploma (2018) in Contemporary Diplomacy with Specialization in Internet Governance from the University of Malta. He is a member of the first generation of the Emerging African Innovation Leaders Programme graduated by Politecnico di Milano and Politecnico di Torino in 2019. From 2010 to 2021 he was the ICT Adviser of the Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education of Mozambique. From 2010 to 2016 he was the Coordinator of the Mozambique eGovernment and Communication Infrastructure Project (MEGCIP), a World Bank funded project that supported the drafting of policies, strategies and legislative ICT documents in Mozambique, being to mention the telecommunication law, electronic transactions law, Mozambique Broadband Strategy, Telecommunications Strategy, and others.
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| Mr. Giacomo Assenza is a Cybersecurity Research Officer at the International Telecommunication Union and PhD candidate in Engineering for Humans and Environment at the University Campus Biomedico, where he is also tutor for the Cybersecurity module. His research interests cover the development of cybersecurity strategies for the protection of critical sectors. Giacomo has a background in consulting and academia and has achieved several publications in academic, technical and educational journals.
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| Ms. Anat Lewin is a Senior Digital Development Specialist at the World Bank and co-Lead of the Cybersecurity Community of Practice at the World Bank. She leads policy advice and investment lending activities in Cybersecurity, Data Governance, Data Protection and Digital Government in Eastern and Southern Africa. Anat advises developing country governments on establishing good practice Cybersecurity, Data Governance and Data Protection policies, strategies, institutional governance frameworks, technical and operational capabilities and digital skills programs. She leads activities that assist African governments – for instance in Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi and Somalia - in implementing reforms supported by large-scale financing by the World Bank. Her analytical work has focused on accessing mobility data by creating anonymized and aggregated datasets derived from call detail records of telecom operators. Anat holds a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University in New York and a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from the University of Toronto in Canada, Trinity College. She studied International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and advanced Arabic at the University of Jordan in Amman. |
| Mr. Keong Min Yoon is Counsel at the World Bank. His practice focuses on data infrastructure, including cybersecurity and cybercrime, data governance, telecommunication, and emerging technology.
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