Authors of MIND 7

Authors

1. Georg Apenes Georg Apenes is a Norwegian jurist and was appointed director of the Norwegian Data Inspectorate in 1989. There he made a mark in the political debate as a defender of privacy. When commenting on Internet privacy, Apenes deplored the indifference with which people disseminate personally identifiable information. He stepped down in April 2010. Georg Apenes has authored several books, with topics spanning from monographies on political themes and analysis of political parties to festschrifts and amateur history. In addition, he has written columns in the newspapers Fredriksstad Blad, Stavanger Aftenblad, Dagens Næringsliv and A-Magasinet.He served three terms (elected 1977, 1981 and 1985) in the Parliament of Norway. In 2010 Apenes was appointed Knight, First Class of Order of St. Olav, for his work.

2. Nick Asthon-Hall Nick Asthon-Hall is the senior permanent representative of the for-profit technology sector to the UN, its member-states, and the international organisations resident in Geneva. He has been an active part of multilateral policy development starting with the sustainable development agenda for the world’s cities (HABITAT 11) in 1992, has been an active part of the Geneva community for 14 years and a resident of it for the past eight. He worked in the music industry as a manager to artists such as James Brown. Also, in the tech sector he went from a Systems Administrator post to CIO/CTO in five years and has broad hands-on technology experience from running a small local area network to designing multi-country wide area networks. He is currently Executive Director of the Internet & Digital Ecosystem Alliance (IDEA). Prior to that he was Geneva Representative of the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA), Director for At-Large and Senior Director for Participation and Engagement with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, Inc. (ICANN) and Executive Director of the International Music Managers Forum (IMMF)

3. Rafik Dammak Rafik Damak is an engineer working and living in Japan. He is member of the steering committee for the Dynamic Coalition on Internet Rights and Principles as well as 1net, representing civil society. He has been involved in the ICANN community as NCUC (Non-commercial users constituency) individual user member. He is also a former elected GNSO Councillor for the Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group and a member of ICANN’s Nominating Committee (NomCom) who is responsible for selecting eight members of the Board of Directors and other key positions within ICANN‘s structur. In addition he participated in several ICANN working groups like the new generic top-level domain (gTLDs) applicant support. He was elected as chair of the Non-Commercial Stakeholders Group (NCSG), who represents, through its elected representatives and its Constituencies, the interests and concerns of noncommercial registrants and noncommercial Internet users of generic Top-level Domains (gTLDs). He is working on improving awareness about Internet Governance in Tunisia and MENA in general.

4. Susanne Dehmel Susanne Dehmel is Head of Department Data Protection at the Federal Association for Information Technology, Telecommunication and New Media (BITKOM) since 2010. She is a lawyer and studied in Passau, Freiburg and Cardiff. Before taking over the Data Protection Department she was responsible for Copyright Law and Intellectual Property Issues from 2002-2009. Encouraging the development of a modern and practicable data protection law for the information society is an important part of her current work.

5. Richard Hill Dr Richard Hill is an independent consultant and was the Secretary for the various ITU groups that discussed the revision of the International Telecommunications Regulations (ITRs). 
He was the head of the secretariat team dealing with the substantive issues at the World Conference on International Telecommunications (ITRs). He was part of the secretariat team for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and has been involved in Internet governance matters since the mid 1990’s. Prior to joining ITU in 2001, Richard was Department Head, IT Infrastructure Delivery and Support, at Orange Communications (a GSM operator). He also worked at Hewlett-Packard‘s European Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Richard holds a Ph.D. in Statistics from Harvard University and a B.S. in Mathematics from M.I.T. Prior to his studies in the U.S.A., he obtained the Maturita‘ from the Liceo Scientifico A. Righi in Rome, Italy. He has published papers on Internet governance, mediation, arbitration, and computer-related legal and intellectual property issues and the standard reference book to X.435.

6. Lorena Jaume-Palasí Lorena Jaume-Palasí is a lecturer and PhD candidate at the Department for Practical Philosophy at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. Her main focus are moral conflicts in international relations and new technologies in governance structures, as well as strategies of collective actors and collective rationality. She has co-organized the German Youth-IGF, the New Media Summer School and the 2014 German IGF. She has been coordinating Global Internet Governance working groups at Berlin’s Internet & Society Collaboratory, where she also leads projects and partnerships since June 2014. She occasionally writes for the online magazines, such as irights.info

7. Wolfgang
 Kleinwächter Wolfgang Kleinwächter has been involved in Internet Governance for decades and has participated - in various capacities - in ICANN, the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) and WSIS (World Summit on the Information Society). In the WSIS process he was a member of the Civil Society Bureau, co-chaired the Internet Governance Caucus (IGC) and was appointed by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan as for the UN Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG). He is a co-founder of the European Dialogue on Internet Governance (EURODIG), the Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GIGANET), the Summer School on Internet Governance (SSIG) and chair of the ICANN Studienkreis. Also, Kleinwächter is a Professor for International Communication Policy and Regulation at the Department for Media and Information Sciences of the University of Aarhus in Denmark where he teaches “Internet Policy and Regulation” since 1998. He is a founding member of the Collaboratory, and was appointed to the ICANN Board of Directors in 2013.

8 Michael M. Komarov Michael M. Komarv is Associate professor of the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow and Deputy dean for international relations at the faculty of business informatics. He accomplished a PhD at Moscow State Institute of Electronics and Mathematics in 2012. Komarov is also specialist in wirelss sensor networks and ICT and was awarded with grants for the best scientific projects, medals for the best scientific projects and IT integration to the educational system. He is member of the Technical Committee on Business Informatics and Systems IEEE and was a Speaker at the Workshop of the Internet Governance Forum in 2012/2013. He is also Head of the Interuniversity Laboratory for innovative projects “Wireless Interactive SystEms and NETworks” (www.wisenetlab.ru) and Co-founder of the Allrussian Public Organization “Young Innovative Russia” (www.i-innomir.ru)

9. Jan Malinowski Jan Malinowski is a lawyer, qualified in Spain and in England. Following eight years of professional practice in Barcelona and London, He joined the Council of Europe where he worked for eleven years with the anti-torture watchdog. Since 2005, he has been responsible for Council of Europe work on media policy, freedom of expression and Internet governance. This work has resulted in the adoption by the Organisation‘s 47 member states of a number of ground-breaking human rights-based normative texts, including a new notion of media, a commitment to do “no harm” to the Internet and the acknowledgement of the states’ shared responsibility for preserving the integrity and ongoing functioning of the Internet. As Head of the Information Society Department, he is now also responsible for work related to two unique Council of Europe conventions, on data protection and cybercrime.

10. Stephanie Perrin Stephanie Perrin spent 30 years in the Canadian federal government, working on information policy and privacy issues. She was Director of Privacy Policy responsible developing private sector privacy legislation (PIPEDA), leaving in 2000 to work for Zero Knowledge Systems, to promote technology for anonymity on the Internet. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto Faculty of Information, with research interests focusing on why privacy is not implemented in Internet standards and functions. She is a member of the Expert Working Group at ICANN, tasked with revamping the Whois directory, and her research examines why privacy has developed into such an intractable problem at ICANN. This research examines concepts of identity online, and the inadequacy of current privacy norms.

11. George Salama George Salama is Senior Manager for Public Policy at the SAMENA Telecom Council and is responsible for setting up and executing the Council’s public policy plan that includes broadband development, ICT policy, spectrum management, digitization, and Internet governance. Salama spent over six years at Egypt’s National Telecom Regulatory Authority (NTRA), International Technical Coordination Department, and was in-charge of Internet public policy issues on national, regional and international levels. He was also part of the Egyptian government delegation to the Internet Governance Forum 2007 to 2010. After completing his Bachelor of Science with a major in Computer Science and a minor in Electronics from the American University in Cairo, AUC, Salama completed his Master’s of Science degree in Business Information Technology from Middlesex University, UK, in 2008. Salama is currently a part-time PhD researcher with Tampere University, Finland, and is pursuing his thesis on “Internet Governance – Intergovernmental Model vs. Multi-Stakeholder Approach.”

12. Peter Schaar is Chairman of the European Academy for Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Berlin) and Former German Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information. Holding a diploma in economics he worked from 1980 to 1983 with the Senate’s office for administrative services Hamburg. 1986 to 1994 Schaar worked as head of section with the Hamburg Data Protection Commissioner. He was deputy there from 1994 to 2002. In 2001 and 2002 he was a dedicated member of the Commission set up to accompany the modernization of the Data Protection Law. On November 1, 2002 he founded a consulting company for data protection. His further engagements are covering the Gesellschaft für Informatik (Society for Informatics), the International Working Group on Data Protection in Telecommunications (IWGDPT), the Hamburger Datenschutzgesellschaft (HDG, Hamburg Society of Data Protection) as well as the Humanistische Union (Humanistic Union). Peter Schaar is the laureate of the eco Internet AWARD 2008.

13 . Petra Sitte Petra Sitte is Chief Whip of the Parliamentary Group DIE LINKE in the German Bundestag since 2013. She is a Member of the Bundestag since 2005 and was a member of the Bundestag’s Commission of Inquiry on Internet and Digital Society (2010-2013). Since more than two decades her areas of public policy have been science, technology and innovation. She holds a doctorate in political economy.

14. Jonne Soininen Jonne Soininen is Associate Technical Director at Broadcom based in Helsinki, Finland. Prior to Broadcom, he worked in different positions with Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks and Renesas Mobile being active in the technical community for over 15 years. During these years Jonne has been active both in technical and policy organizations including the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the Internet Society (ISOC) and the Internet Governance Forum (IGF). Currently, Jonne Soininen is serving as non-voting technical liaison to the ICANN board appointed by the IETF.