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​​​​​​ Person Icon Erik Andersen
Editor of ITU-T X.509 | Independent Consultant, Andersen, 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 (OSI). Became chair of the Danish committee for Open Systems Interconnection standardization and participated in numerous international meetings within ISO/IEC and was quite active. After leaving IBM, continued to work for international standardization in European standardization arena. Was during four study periods rapporteur for the question, currently Question 11, that is responsible for the ITU.T X.500 series, which is collaborative work with ISO/IEC, which has published the series as ISO/IEC 9594-all parts. Has for 12 years or more been the project editor for the ITU-T X.500 series, also on the ISO/IEC side. Rec. ITU-T X.509, alias ISO/IEC 9594-8, is part of the ITU-T X.500 series. X.509 being the framework for public-key infrastructure is an extremely important specification.
Herbert Bertine
ITU-T Study Group Former Chair

Herbert Bertine is a former chairman of ITU-T Study Group 17 and previously Study Group 7, having served from 1993 to 2008. He has been actively involved in the standards work of the ITU since 1975 and has held senior leadership positions for 28 years. He has devoted extensive efforts in facilitating cooperation with SDOs. Herb also has been active in other arenas dealing with ICT standards including ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 6 and ANSI. He was instrumental in developing the collaborative procedures between ITU-T and JTC 1 (reflected in Rec. A.23) and in establishing the cooperative procedures with the IETF. Herb retired in November 2007. He was Director, Standards at Lucent Technologies where he led Lucent standards efforts worldwide. He joined Bell Laboratories in June 1965 and spent his career in communication technologies. This included systems engineering work on modems, digital data systems, X.25 packet networks, open systems, and advanced communication systems. Since 1982, he had various responsibilities for corporate-wide standards management. In October 2006, Herb was awarded the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Edward Lohse Information Technology Medal for outstanding technical and managerial leadership in establishing international information technology and telecommunications standards and the methods by which they are produced. Herb has a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree and a Master of Electrical Engineering degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Russell Housley
Founder of Vigil Security, LLC | Former IETF Chair (2007-2013)

Mr. Housley is an expert in security protocols, system engineering and system security architectures, and he has authored many Internet standards. He has over 30 years of communications and computer security experience, and he is the Founder of Vigil Security, LLC. He served as Chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) from 2007 to 2013. He on the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) from 2007 to 2017, and he served as Chair of the IAB from 2013 to 2015. He was an IETF Security Area Director from 2003 to 2007. He also served in leadership positions of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), including the IEEE 802 Executive Committee in the early 1990s. Mr. Housley has authored several Internet security standards, including the Cryptographic Message Syntax, which provides the foundation for electronic mail security, and the Internet X.509 Certificate Profile, which provides the infrastructure to identify and authenticate websites and users. In the IEEE, he made significant technical contributions Local Area Network security standards, particularly IEEE 802.10 and IEEE 802.11i, which is implemented as Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA and WPA2). He is co-author of two technical books: Planning for PKI and Implementing Email and Security Tokens.
Hoyt 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 Icon Jean-Paul Lemaire
Question 11/17 Rapporteur | ISO/IEC JTC1/SC 6/WG 10 Convenor

Jean-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.

Anthony 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.
Doug Steedman
CCITT Special Rapporteur of Question 35/ VII, Directory Systems (1985-1988)Software Engineer, Google Inc.nc

Doug Steedman was the CCITT Special Rapporteur for Directory Systems during 1985-1988, leading the international group that produced the first versions of the X.500 standards (including X.509). He was also the editor for those documents. Doug was also one of the creators of ASN.1. After his standardization work, during which he represented Bell-Northern Research in Canada, he returned to software engineering, joining General Magic in California to work on the Telescript language for Mobile Agents. Subsequently he worked on security for WebTV Networks and Microsoft. Currently Doug is a software engineer at Google Inc in San Francisco
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 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 Commissioner for the Korea Personal Information Protection Commission, a member of advisory committee for the Korea national security office for the Blue House, a Chairman for the ISMS/PIMS certification committee in Korea since 2007, and a Board director for Korea Information/Security agency. 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 had been involved in self-performance evaluation) committees for the Ministry of Science and ICT since 2017. 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. 
Arnaud Taddei
CEO, Vice-chair, ITU-T Study Group 17, Security | Broadcom​

Mr​. Arnaud Taddei is a Global Security Strategist at Symantec by Broadcom. He is an executive advisor on Security Strategy and Transformation for the top 150 Symantec customers. As part of his mission, M. Taddei participates in specific Standardization Defining Organizations and in particular, was elected ITU-T SG17 Vice Chair representing the UK and works at the IETF. He started his career in 1993 at the famous CERN IT Division in Geneva which created the World Wide Web and where he led the team responsible for Communication, Authentication and Authorization. In 2000, he joined Sun Microsystems where he became one of the 100 elected global Principle Engineers. In 2007 he joined Symantec and hold Chief Architect roles up to Director of Research as direct report to Dr. Hugh Thompson, Symantec’s CTO and actual RSA Conference Chair. Graduated as Telecom Engineer from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Télécommunication de Bretagne, France, M. Taddei owns a DEA with INRIA, which led him to the Institute of Control Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow in 1992.​​
Xiaoya Yang
ITU-T Study Group 17 Counselor

Xiaoya Yang serves as the Counselor of ITU-T Study Group 17 ‘security’ since 2017. With 20+ years of professional experience in telecommunication regulation, legislation and international standardization and coordination, she was the Head of the WTSA Programmes Division in the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU-TSB) from 2010 to 2016, Co-counsellor of ITU-T Study Group 2 on 'Operational aspects of service provision and telecommunications management' and Study Group 3 on 'Tariff and accounting principles including related telecommunication economic and policy issues' from 2009 to 2010; Counselor of ITU-T Study Group 17 on 'Telecommunication security' from 2007 to 2008; and Workshop Project Coordinator from 2004 to 2006. Before joining ITU, she worked in the Ministry of Information Industry of China from 1998 to 2004. There she was the Division Director responsible for regulation of Internet and information security. From 1997 to 1998 she worked in China Telecom as a network engineer and service manager in their Internet service department. She has a M.S. in Computer Science from Tsinghua University, China and a MBA from Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.​​
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.