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Biographies

​​Martin Adolph
Study Group Advisor, ITU

Martin Adolph is a Study Group Advisor with ITU, the United Nations’ specialized agency for information and communications technologies. Martin's work facilitates the development of international s​tandards in the field of performance, quality of service (QoS) and quality of experience (QoE) for the full spectrum of terminals, networks, services and applications ranging from speech over fixed circuit-based networks to multimedia applications over networks that are mobile and packet based. Martin is also responsible for ITU's standardization work in the field of distributed ledger technology. Martin holds degrees in Computer Science from TU Dresden and in Engineering from École Centrale Paris.
Jörn Erbguth
​Legal Tech, Blockchain, Smart Contract and Data Protection Consultant

Jörn Erbguth is a consultant on blockchain and data protection (GDPR). With majors in computer science and law, he takes a multidisciplinary approach to new technology. He is an enabler of privacy by design where legal and technological aspects need to be tightly integrated. Jörn previously worked as a software developer, a product manager and was head of ICT and CTO for legal information systems in Germany and Switzerland. He has been invited to the European Commission, the German Bundestag and the Parliament of Sachsen to discuss Blockchain, data protection and information security. Jörn publishes about technology and law and lectures at the Geneva School of Diplomacy, the University of Lucerne and the University of St. Gallen. He is active in Blockchain standardization at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and was a member of DIN SPEC 4997 Privacy by Blockchain Design. He works with Geneva Macro Labs as Head of Technology Insights. Jörn also serves as a board member for the German EDV-Gerichtstag (German Association for Computing in the Judiciary) and the Swiss entscheidsuche.ch association. The latter engages in making Swiss court cases easily and freely available to the public.
Ning Hu
Director, DIU, Onchain Solutions

Ning HU is architect of Ontology, a high performance, open source blockchain specializing in digital identity and data.
Ning HU is one of the first Semantic Web experts in China and has many years of experience in enterprise resource planning, digitization of government affairs, gaming platforms, media streaming, and financial systems
Wei Kai
ITU-T Study Group 16 Q22 Rapporteur Secretary/ General of TBI, CAICT

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 22 under ITU-T Study Group 16.
Suzana Maranhão Moreno
ITU-T Study Group 16 Q22 Associate Rapporteur / Digital Innovation Analyst, BNDES

Suzana Maranhão Moreno is the Associate Rapporteur of "Distributed Legder Technology and E-services" under ITU-T Study Group 16. She was the vice-chair of ITU-T FG DLT (Focus Group on Application of Distributed Ledger Technology). Co-founder of Digital Innovation Lab in the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES), which is now the main technical responsible for deploying a national infrastructure to blockchain in Brazil. She is also the Vice-coordinator of Blockchain Action Group at the Brazilian Anti-corruption and Money Laundering Strategy (ENCCLA).
Kyeong Hee Oh
Co-rapporteur of ITU-T SG 17 Q14/ CEO of TCA services

Ms. Kyeong Hee Oh, the CEO of TCA services, is an information security professional with 20+ years’ experience. She is the Co-rapporteur of ITU-T SG 17 Q14 “Security aspects of distributed ledger technologies,” the project leader of IS 23257 Blockchain and DLT – Reference architecture in ISO TC 307, and the editor of ITU-T X.1051|ISO/IEC 27011, X.strdlt, and ISO 27021. She has developed many information security and DLT (blockchain) domestic standards. Master’s degree in Computer science from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, worked as a  researcher at Korea Telecom and the Korea Information Security Agency. She has participated in establishing the evaluation criteria for information security products, of the National PKI, of ISMS certification scheme, and the first draft of certification criteria for Privacy Information Management Systems in Korea. She had provided consulting services to many organizations, including SK Telecom, LG display, Hyundai Mobis, and many government agencies.
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. ​​​
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