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Virginia Cram-Martos
CEO, Triangularity SàRL

Virginia Cram-Marto is the CEO of Triangularity SàRL which supports economic development through Innovation, eCommerce and Trade. She also participates as an expert in a range of activities related to blockchain and other technologies. This includes being the leader for a project of the United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT) that created a white paper on Blockchain in Trade Facilitation and co-leader of another white paper project on the Internet of Things and Trade Facilitation. In addition, she participates in blockchain fora organized by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the European Union and the World Economic Forum. Prior to Triangularity she worked for 25 years at the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe in Geneva. During her last 11 years at the UN, she was a Director responsible for: trade facilitation, global UN electronic business standards, regulatory cooperation, national innovation frameworks and public-private partnerships. Ms. Cram-Martos is a recognized public speaker on blockchain as well as other technology topics, having made presentations during 2018 and 2019 in Argentina, China, France, Morocco, Senegal, Spain, Switzerland and the United States and, depending upon the venue, in English, French or Spanish. She holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and a Masters in Finance from the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium.
Alexander Chuburkov
Expert, Standardization and Regulation, Association for Development of Financial Technologies, Russia.

Alexander is an expert on standardization and regulation at the Association for Development of Financial Technologies (Russia) and a Сhief Legal Officer at QIWI Blockchain Technologies LLC (Russia). He is also a national expert on international standardization GOST-R, Russian Technical Committee 26 for standardization "Cryptography and security mechanisms" (TC26), ISO TC307. His research interests include corporate governance and finance, financial regulation, and protocol design. E-mail: chuburkovalex@gmail.com
​​​​Person IconVasily Dolmatov
SG17 Vice-Chairman

Vasily Dolmatov was born 21 January 1960 in Moscow, USSR. Graduated with honors from the Moscow State University's Department of Physics and from the Higher Commercial School with the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation (МВА degree). In 1983 he joined the Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IRE RAS).  On different occasions Vasily Dolmatov held managerial offices with the Russian Internet companies. Several years he serviced in Ministry of Communication and Mass Media of Russian Federation. In 2017 he joined "Rostelecom" company as Projects director of Centre of Cybersecurity and Defense. Vasily Dolmatov participated in work of IETF, he has been contributing to the development of several RFCs setting international standards in the area of Internet technologies. Vasily is  actively working in ITU-T Study Group 17 and is a Vice-Chairman of SG17 since 2016. 
Jacques Remi Francoeur
Founder & CEO, Spheric Security Solutions

Jacques is the founder and CEO of Spheric Security Solutions a software tool company whose mission is to enhance and automate the management and communication of “all matters Security Controls” to optimize protection. Jacques has over 30+ years of experience in high technology beginning his career as an Aerospace Engineer with the Canadian Space Agency, next moving to Silicon Valley in 1999, starting his privacy and security consulting advisory career with KPMG, followed by SAIC and E&Y. During this time, Jacques repeatedly observed the painful process of determining one’s state of control and its ability to report on it to internal and external stakeholders as only a snapshot in time. After leaving E&Y in 2012, Jacques set his mind to find a better way. He started Spheric Security and has ever since been head’s down, finally breaking through the core problem with Security Control Expression Syntax Language. This was the final keystone piece of the Unified Security Model Jacques developed over his 20-year career in security. Jacques now travels around the world institutionalizing the model as radically better way to deliver protection.Jacques is a US Delegate of U.S. Department of State to the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), Standardization Study Group 17: Security in 2018 and 2019. He was also Vice Chair of the ITU Focus Group on Digital Fiat Currency and co-chair of the Security Working Group. Finally, Jacques supports the San Jose State University as a Faculty Cyber Executive-in-Residence. Jacques has an MBA from Concordia University, Montreal; M.A.Sc from the University of Toronto, Institute for Aerospace Studies and a B.A.Sc. in Engineering Science, Aerospace Engineering from the University of Toronto.
Wei Kai
Chairman, ITU-T Focus Group on Application of Distributed Ledger Technology (FG DLT)

Mr. Wei Kai is Chairman of ITU-T Focus Group on Application of Distributed Ledger Technology(FG DLT). He is the Vice Director of Cloud and Big Data Institute, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology(CAICT). He leads a research group in CAICT working on big data and blockchain technology, consulting, standardization, testing and certification. His team proposed the Trusted Blockchain framework, which is a framework for Blockchain and DLT platform assessment. He is the founder and the Secretary General of Trusted Blockchain Initiatives(TBI), a cooperation network of 300 blockchain commpanies from China and abroad. He was the core drafting group of several Chinese national industrial policy and standards in ICT area in the past years. Wei Kai is also the Rapporteur of Question 21 and 22 under ITU-T Study Group 16.
Young Guk Kang
Director, Security Consultant, KISCA Corporation, Seoul, Korea

Young majored in Information Security at Soonchunhyang University. He currently works as a Security Audit Director at KISCA (Korea Information Systems Consulting & Audit co), Republic of Korea. His main task is to manage the  Personal Information Management System audit, Information Security Management System audit, Security standardization. He is also an adjunct professor at Soonchunhyang University.  He is an active member of the following associations: TTA members, Personal Information Protection Standards Forum members, and  International Standards Fintech Study group members in Korea.
Thomas Lammer
Principal Market Infrastructure Expert, European Central Bank

Thomas Lammer is a Principal Market Infrastructure Expert at the European Central Bank (ECB), leading the team on payment instrument/payment scheme oversight. Previously (2013-2016) he was a Senior Financial Sector Specialist at the World Bank Group (WBG) and played a leading role in global financial inclusion initiatives (incl. the ITU Focus Group on Digital Financial Services). Thomas contributed to payment system reforms and financial inclusion projects in a variety of countries, mainly in Sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia. From 2008-2013 he was a Market Infrastructure Expert at the ECB, focusing on the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA). He started his career at Oesterreichische Nationalbank in 2001, where he was project manager for the implementation of payment infrastructures and he also was a visiting expert at Banca d’Italia. Thomas has published a number of books, reports and articles on payments. He is a graduate of the Vienna University of Economics and Business.
Zhaoji Lin
Director, ICT Security Standardization, ZTE Corporation, China 

Zhaoji Lin is the vice-chairman of ITU-T SG17 and co-chairman of Working Party of ITU-T SG17. He works as an ICT Security Standardization director in the technical planning and development unit at ZTE Corporation. He was also active in many international and regional standards organizations, including Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and China Communications Standards Association (CCSA) in the areas of device management, digital rights management, identity management, IoT security and cloud computing security and 5G securit. He is the author, editor, and co-editor of many ITU-T recommendations, OMA specifications and CCSA standards.            

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Senior Manager, Technology Strategy Department, KDDI Corporation

​Dr. Yutaka Miyake has been engaged in the research on high-speed communication protocol and secure communication system at the KDD R&D Laboratories and KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc. He is currently a senior manager of Technology Strategy Department in KDDI Corporation, and is also a senior manager of Smart Security Laboratory in KDDI Research Inc.He began participating in ITU-T SG 17 in 2005 and has been actively contributing to its activities as information security experts. He is a vice chair of ITU-T SG17, and a chair of WP1/SG17 from March 2017.
Hyunsun Mun
PhD Student, Chungnam National University, Deajeon, Korea

Hyunsun Mun is currently a Ph.d student at Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea. He majors in Computer science, Computer network.  His main research topic include: dark web and Blockchain data analysis, AppSpeedXray: Mobile application performance measurement and analysis, VASpeedTest: Voice assistant performance measurement and analysis and privacy exposure at web community.
Jae Hoon Nah
WP4 Co-chair & Rapporteur of ITU-T SG17

 
He began participating in ITU-T SG 17 in 2005. For the two Study Periods (2009 – 2012, 2013-2016), he served as a Rapporteur of Question 7/17 (Secure Application Services). He has been a Project Editor or Co-editor for 8 approved ITU-T Recommendations or agreed Supplements in the area of P2P (Peer-to-Peer) security, IPTV security, Web security, authentication protocol. From 1987, he has worked as a researcher for ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute), Republic of Korea. He is currently a special fellow researcher of Security Research Laboratory in ETRI. He had developed wired/mobile call processing software of a digital switching machine (TDX-10 ISDN, TDX-ATM) from 1987 to 2000. And He had developed security protocols and standards of secure P2P services, scalable code of IPTV security, Mashup Web security and enhanced attribute-aggregated authentication from 2001.​
Heung Youl Youm
Chairman, ITU-T Study Group 17, Security   
  
He is Chairman of ITU-T SG17 (Security). He is working as a professor for the Department of Information Security Engineering of the Soonchunhyang University, Korea from September 1990. He is currently the Director of SCH Cybersecurity Research Centre from Dec. 2013. He began participating in ITU-T SG 17 in 2003 and has actively contributed to the work of SG17 as a core member of security experts. He was an associate Rapporteur of SG 17 Question 10/17 from 2003 to 2004. For the Study Period (2005 – 2008), he served as a Rapporteur of Question 9/17. He was a Vice Chairman of ITU-T Study Group 17 from 2009 to 2016. He was a Chairman of Working Party 2 (Application Security) of SG17 for the Study Period (2009–2012) and was a Chairman of Working Party 3 (Identity management and cloud computing security) of SG17 for the Study Period (2013–2016). He has been a Project Editor or Co-editor for many approved ITU-T Recommendations or agreed Supplements in the area of IPTV security, home network security, authentication protocol, USN security, mobile security, and cybersecurity. He was a president of KIISC (Korea Institute on information security and cryptology) in 2011 and is an emeritus president of KIISC. He had worked for ETRI as a senior research engineer from 1982 to 1990. He had been involved in developing high speed transmission system. He had been involved in many (advisory or self-performance evaluation) committees for the Korea Communications Commission (KCC) from 2008 to 2016, the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP) from 2013 to 2017, the Ministry of Industry and Energy (MoTIE) from 2015 to 2017. He has been involved in self-performance evaluation) committees for the Ministry of Science and ICT since 2017. He is a Chairman for the ISMS/PIMS certification committee in Korea since 2007 and had been the chairman for the committee on information security in the PyeongChang Organizing Committee for the 2018 Olympic & Paralympic Winter Games from January 2015 to May 2018. He received a Bachelor degree in 1981, a Master degree in 1983, and a Ph.D. degree in 1990, all in Electronics Engineering from Hanyang University, Korea. ​​​
Min Zuo
Engineeer, Alipay


Min Zuo received her Ph.D. degree in Telecommunication and Information System from Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China, in 2008. She has worked as an engineer and a researcher in China Mobile Research Institute for almost 10 years before entering Ant Financial Services Group (Alipay). She had experiences working in several international SDOs and industrial alliances including ITU-T (SG17 security), 3GPP (SA3 security), oneM2M (WG4 security), GSMA, NGMN, W3C, IETF, ONF, GTI, etc. In the recent years, she has been the co-lead of NGMN SCT (security competence team), the associate rapporteur of ITU-T Q14/17 (DLT security), the co-rapporteur of ITU-T Q6/17 (5G and IoT security) and the editor of several work items in ITU-T SG17. She is also a registered expert in ISO/IEC JTC1 SC37 (Biometrics), ISO TC307 (DLT and Blockchain) and ISO TC68 (Financial Services). She is now a Senior Standardization Expert in Ant Financial Services Group, and her research interest includes mobile payment, risk control, biometrics, Blockchain/DLT and other innovative FinTech topics.