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​​​ Person Icon Heung Youl Youm
Chairman, ITU-T Study Group 17, Security | Professor, Department of Information Security Engineering, Soonchunhyang University, South Korea  

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 is a Commissioner for Personal Information Protection Commission from August 2020. 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 for many approved ITU-T Recommendations or agreed Supplements in DLT security, authentication/application protocols, de-identification techniques, USN/IoT security, 5G security, and cybersecurity. He is a Chairman for the ISMS/PIMS certification committee in Korea since 2007, and a Board director for Korea Information/Security agency from May 2020. He was a member of advisory committee to the Korea national security office for the Office of the President, Republic of Korea from October 2018 to May 2022, 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, Ministry of Science and ICT from 2017. He had been involved in self-performance evaluation) committees for the Ministry of Science and ICT since 2017 to 2019. He 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’s degree in 1981, a Master degree in 1983, and a Ph.D. degree in 1990, all in Electronics Engineering from Hanyang University, Korea. 
Person Icon Zhiyuan Hu
Vice-Chair, WP2/17 "5G, IoT and ITS security", Co-Rapporteur, Q2/17 | Director, Security Research, vivo Mobile Communication Co. Ltd, China​​​​​

Ms. Zhiyuan Hu got her Ph.D. in computer science in 2002. She worked as a security researcher at Nokia Shanghai Bell Co. Ltd. from 2002 to 2021. Since July 2021, she has worked as Director of Security Research at vivo Mobile Communication Co. Ltd. Dr. Hu was nominated for Vice-Chair of WP2/SG17 (5G, IoT& ITS security) (2021-present), Co-Rapporteur of Q2/SG17 (Security architecture and network security) (2017-present) and Associate Rapporteur of Q2/SG17 (2015-2016). She acted as Chair of OMA (Open Mobile Alliance) security working group (2009-2014) and Vice-Chair of OMA security working group (2007-2008). She also acted as Vice-Chair of CCSA (China Communications Standards Association) TC5 WG5 (Wireless communication security) (2008-2021). She completed to publish more than 20 specifications. ​​ ​
Person Icon Jean-Paul Lemaire
Question 11/17 Rapporteur | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC 6/WG 10 Convenor

J​ean-Paul Lemaire worked between 1978 and 1996 as civil servant in University Paris Diderot in charge of systems, networks and security. Since 1998, he is involved in standardization of ASN.1 then also Directory. Since 2017, he is Rapporteur of Q11/17 (Generic technologies to support secure applications) and, also Convenor of ISO/IEC/JTC 1/SC 6/ WG10 (Directory, ASN.1 and registration). He is also lecturer in Gustave Eiffel University (France) and works also as consultant in development of applications related to security.

Person IconErik Andersen
Editor of ITU-T X.509 | Independent consultant, Andersen's L-Service, Denmark

Erik Andersen was employed by IBM for 27 years. and was in the early 1980th appointed by IBM to be the IBM representative in Danish Standards. Became chair of the Danish committee for Open Systems Interconnection standardization and participated in numerous international meetings within ISO/IEC. After leaving IBM, continue to be active in international and European standardization. Was during four study periods rapporteur for the question, is responsible for the ITU.T X.500 series. Has for 15 years or more been the project editor for the ITU-T X.500 series, which includes ITU-T X.509. Is also project editor for three new part of the X.500 series, ITU-T X.510, a coming ITU-T X.508 and the work on interconnecting PKI domains using blockchain.​​
Person IconHoyt L Kesterson II
Senior Security & Risk Architect, Avertium, United States

Hoyt L Kesterson II is a Senior Security & Risk Architect with Terra Verde. He has more than 40 years of experience in information security. For 21 years he chaired the international standards group that created the X.509 public-key certificate, a fundamental component in digital signature and securing web transactions. He is a co-chair and founding member of the ABA’s Information Security Committee. He is a testifying expert. He is a PCI QSA who helps clients meet compliance requirements for ensuring that the integrity and confidentiality of payment card data are maintained. He holds the CISSP and CISA certifications.​​

​​Person IconStiepan Kovac
QRC Eurosmart SA, Luxembourg

Mr. Kovac, CEO of the QRC group of companies (Quantum Resistant Cryptography), is a co-editor of ISO/IEC JTC1 SC27 18033-2 Amd2 with the goal to add « post quantum » ciphers to that standard likewise the editor of ITU-T X.1197 Amd1 (2019), the first ever comprehensive quantum resistant cryptography recommendation, followed by X.1811 which provides it with a good practice for use in 5G networks and H.551 which extends its recommended use to vehicular multimedia. He is also the main driving force of European cryptography standardization.​​

​​Person IconAnthony Michael Rutkowski
CEO, Netmagic Associates LLC

Tony Rutkowski is an engineer-lawyer with an extremely diverse, sixty-year professional career spanning the telecommunication, mobile, internet, satellite, and broadcasting fields in the U.S. and Europe where he has shaped major technical and legal developments in senior governmental, company, and academic leadership positions at international, national, and local levels. Over the past two decades, his roles have been focused on significant international and U.S. Federal network security initiatives relating to cybersecurity, infrastructure protection, extraterritorial security law, and lawful interception for new networks and services. Currently, as the CEO of Netmagic Associates LLC, he provides technical and regulatory analytical and consulting services to a few entities that include the Center for Internet Security. He engages actively in a broad array of governmental and industry security forums – largely internationally. Over the past several years, he has assumed rapporteur responsibilities in the ETSI Cyber Security Technical Committee for a number of major specifications and reports and served as an ENISA consultant. Over the past 20 years, he assumed rapporteur responsibilities in the ETSI Lawful Interception Technical Committee and chair of the OASIS LegalXML LI Technical Committee. He continues to serve as the liaison among multiple international network security bodies. He also writes extensively in multiple professional publications and speaks on network security related developments and history. ​
Person Icon Carl Leitner
Technical Officer, World Health Organization I Co-chairman of JCA-DCC ​

Carl Leitner, Ph.D. is a Technical Officer with the World Health Organization, Geneva. He is the former Technical Director of Digital Square at PATH and Associate Director of Health Workforce Informatics at IntraHealth. Carl Leitner brings more than twenty years of experience in informatics, information technology, software development, and education including more than fourteen years of designing and adapting health information systems in low- and middle-income countries. Leitner has worked closely, in a variety of roles, with many digital health global goods. Leitner also regularly engages with health informatics standards development organization and has co-authored several health informatics standards.
Person IconDaniel Apon
Lead, MITRE, United States

Daniel Apon is Cryptography Lead at the MITRE Corporation, based in McLean, Virginia, and is currently involved in MITRE's effort to stand up a long-term and full-scope industry coalition to accelerate the real-world adoption of Post Quantum Cryptography. Recently, he played a central role in standing up the 1st annual Real World Post Quantum Cryptography workshop in Tokyo (March 2023), which aims to bring together industry, academia, and standardization bodies to help address the core challenges involved in migrating modern computing systems and architectures to total quantum-resistance. Prior to that, he was a member of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Cryptographic Technologies Group working on the Post Quantum Cryptography standardization project, where he specialized in novel cryptanalyses of Lattice-based Cryptography, Hash-based Cryptography, Code-based Cryptography, and Multivariate-based Cryptography plus a focus on hardware side-channel analysis. Daniel holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science with a focus on Cryptography from the University of Maryland, College Park. After that, he held a Postdoctoral Scholar position at the University of California, Berkeley.​ ​​
​​Person IconJohn W. Carlson
Senior Vice President, Cybersecurity Regulation and Resilience, American Bank Association

John Carlson serves as the senior vice president of cybersecurity regulation and resilience at the American Bankers Association (ABA). Prior to joining the ABA, Carlson served in a variety of leadership roles in cybersecurity, operational risk, regulatory compliance, public affairs, strategic planning, and management at several private sector companies and associations and US Government agencies.  Private sector roles include Amazon Web Services (global financial services industry lead for security assurance), Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (chief of staff), BITS/Financial Services Roundtable (executive vice president), and Morgan Stanley (managing director of operational risk). Public sector roles include Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (director of bank technology), U.S. Office of Management and Budget (budget analyst), and Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (senior analyst). Carlson received a Masters of Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a BA from the University of Maryland.
​​Gillian Makamara
Project Officer, International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

Gillian Makamara is a Project Officer in the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB) of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) where she supports the development of international standards on Cybersecurity in ITU-T Study Group 17 and on Performance, quality of service (QoS) and quality of experience (QoE) in ITU-T Study Group 12. Gillian also contributes to ITU's work in the fields of quantum communications. Gillian holds degrees in Telecommunication Engineering from the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) and the University of Liverpool.

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