Expert Pool

Professor

New York University and UN Special Rapporteur

212.998.6173
philip.alston@nyu.edu

Philip G. Alston is a professor at the New York University School of Law and an expert in international law and human rights. As both a scholar and practitioner, his current work focuses on the human rights dimensions of issues such as neoliberal economic policies, climate change, artificial intelligence, and poverty elimination.

(Senior) Adviseur Cybersecurity at Ministerie van Justitie en Veiligheid

NCSC-NL

nouschka___13@hotmail.com

Nouschka Auwema is a Senior Advisior at Ministerie van Justitie en Veiligheid. Her main interest is in governance and (political) management of cyber security in organizations.

Research Engineer

AFNIC

stephaneb@afni.com

Stéphane Bortzmeyer is a research engineer at Association française pour le nommage Internet en coopération. He has worked mostly DNS security.

Professor,Software & Systems Engineering

TUM, Center for Digitization in Bavaria

manfred.broy@mytum.de

Professor Broy conducts research on the scientific modeling and development of complex, software-intensive systems. This focus also includes the use of targeted processes, precise specification of requirements, durable and flexible software architectures and modern tools based on mathematical and logical methods. The goal is to support and advance the methods of software and systems engineering, with a focus on quality assurance and long-term system evolution.

Journalist and Security Researcher

self-employed

hanno@hboeck.de

Hanno Böck is a freelance journalist and IT security professional and researcher.

Managing Director Digital Society Initiative

University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland

+41 44 635 43 48
christen@ifi.uzh.ch

Markus Christen is Managing Director of the Digital Society Initiative of the University of Zurich (UZH) and heads the Neuro-Ethics-Technology research group at the Institute for Biomedical Ethics and Medical History at the UZH. His research areas are ethics of information and communication systems, neuroethics and empirical ethics. Current research topics include the use of video games (Serious Moral Games) to measure and promote moral competence, ethical questions of big data, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence, as well as research into human-machine interaction in moral issues, such as the use of drones.

Deputy Head - Office for Cyber Foreign and Security Policy

Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA)

+41 800 24-7-365 / +41 58 465 33 33
helpline@eda.admin.ch

Laura Crespo is Deputy Head of the Office for Cyber Foreign and Security Policy at the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA). She is an expert on Cybersecurity Challenges in the Government Sphere - Ethical, Legal and Technical Aspects.

Independent Management Consultant

Independent management consultant

+32 472 12 57 52
contact@freddydezeure.eu

Freddy Dezeure is a senior security executive with a strong track record in cyber security operations, policy, technology and risk management. Extensive operational management experience, both in line and support functions. Recognized thought leader in security, risk and privacy.

Global Head of Symantec Research Labs

Symantec Ireland

(+1) 424-750-8204
pefstath@cs.ucla.eu

Petros Efstathopoulos is the Global Head of Symantec Research Labs. He has worked on the design and implementation of a variety of computer systems, including operating systems and kernel development, storage and file systems, security, distributed systems, virtualization, and systems networking. Since joining Symantec he has focused particularly on next-generation storage/backup systems, portable storage security, network security, privacy and identity.

PhD Student Cyber Norms Program

Leiden University, NL

+31 70 800 9061
i.n.georgieva@fgga.leidenuniv.nl

Ilina Georgieva is a PhD candidate of The Hague Programme for Cyber Norms. In her research, Ilina is focusing on the capacity of networks of intelligence agencies to shape the international community's perception of what is normal in cyberspace. For that purpose she investigates the networks' normative power by looking into their practice of foreign electronic surveillance.

Professor

DCU Institute of Ethics

bert.gordijn@dcu.ie

Bert Gordijn is Professor and Director of the Institute of Ethics at Dublin City University in Ireland. He has studied Philosophy and History in Utrecht, Strasbourg and Freiburg in Breisgau. He has served on Advisory Panels and Expert Committees of the European Chemical Industry Council, the European Patent Organisation, the Irish Department of Health and UNESCO. He is Secretary of the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare and President of the International Association of Education in Ethics.

CEO and Security Analyst

ERNW (PEN Tester)

+49 (0) 6221-480390

Florian Grunow is CEO of ERNW and Security Anlayst.

Professor

University of Passau

heckmann@uni-passau.de

Dirk Heckmann is professor for public law with particular reference to e-government, police and security law, internet law, legal informatics and data protection law. Heckmann has been a member of the Federal Government's Data Ethics Commission since July 2018

Professor for Privacy and Security in Information Systems

University of Bamberg

+49(0)951-863-2661
dominik.herrmann@uni-bamberg.de

Dominik Hermann is a professor for Privacy and Security in Information Systems at University of Bamberg. Research topics are Design and evaluation of usable and unobtrusive privacy enhancing technologies, Protection against undesirable tracking of online and mobile users, Inference attacks that may infringe privacy or provide forensic evidence, Security and privacy issues in the Domain Name System, Applications of machine learning techniques to security and privacy problems, Application and empirical evaluation of traffic analysis techniques.

CEO, Consultant

BH Consulting (IE)

+353 1 440 4065
info@bhconsulting.ie

Brian Honan is an information security and cybersecurity professional an CEO of BH Consulting. Over his career, he has managed and delivered information security projects and services to organisations of varying sizes, from SMEs to large companies and multinationals.

Chief Research Officer

F-Secure Corporation (Finland)

+358 400 648180
mikko.hypponen@f-secure.com

Mikko Hypponen is a global security expert working for F-Secure. He has written on his research for the New York Times, Wired and Scientific American and he appears frequently on international TV. He has lectured at the universities of Stanford, Oxford and Cambridge.

Legal Researcher

Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) LSTS (BE)

lina.jasmontaite@vub.be

Lina Jasmontaite is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/E, IAPP) and pursues the PhD program at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Her PhD research concerns primarily the interaction between data breach notification obligations foreseen in the General Data Protection Regulation and the Network and Information Security Directive. She is interested to raise awareness about individuals’ rights online and in particular, the rights to the protection of personal data and privacy, Lina publishes on the topics concerning protection of human rights, regulation of new technologies and cybersecurity.

Group Data Privacy Officer

Vivantes GmbH

david.koeppe@vivantes.de

David Koeppe is Group Data Privacy Officer at Vivantes GmbH. The competence includes Hospitals, medical care centers, a rehabilitation center, a hospice, nursing homes and an outpatient nursing service.

Privacy Activist

Zwiebelfreunde e.V.

jens@kubieziel.de

Jens Kubieziel is a privacy activist in IT security and data protection. He is CEO of the association Zwiebelfreunde e.V..

Associate Director of the ADAPT Centre for Digital Content and Media technologies

ADAPT Centre

dave.lewis@adaptcentre.ie

Dave Lewis researches on Progressive Self-Management of value networks and their shared digital resources.

Professor

U.S. Naval Academy, Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership

george.r.lucas.jr@gmail.com

George Lucas is Distinguished Chair in Ethics in the Vice Admiral James B. Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership at the United States Naval Academy (Annapolis), and Professor of Ethics and Public Policy at the Graduate School of Public Policy at the Naval Postgraduate School (Monterey, CA). He is a specialist in applied ethics (military, professions, technology) and history of modern philosophy/philosophy of science. General Editor, Collected Critical Edition of the Works of Alfred North Whitehead (Edinburgh University Press).

Senior Legal Researcher

CISPA Helmoltz Center for Information Security

marnau@cispa.saarland

Ninja Marnau is a senior legal researcher at CISPA Helmoltz Center for Information Security.

CEO

Evolution Security GmbH

research@evolution-sec.com

Benjamin Kunz Mejri is a German IT security specialist and penetration tester. His areas of research include vulnerabilities in computer systems, bug bounties, the security of e-payment payment services and privacy protection. Mejri is known for uncovering new zero-day vulnerabilities and making them transparent to the public.

Professor moral philosophy, principle investigator of an ERC Advanced Project on Counter Terrorism Ethics

Charles Sturt University / TU Delft / University of Oxford

semiller@csu.edu.au

Seumas Miller is professor and an expert for applied ethics, political and analytical philosophy, terrorism and IT-Security.

Investigative Journalist

Süddeutsche Zeitung

hannes.munzinger@sueddeutsche.de

Harald Munzinger investigative journalist at Süddeutsche Zeitung and an editor for data and investigative research in the development department.

Data Governance & Data Protection Consultant

CastleBridge Associates

catherina@castlebridge.ie

Katherine O'Keefe is a lead Information Governance and Privacy consultant, trainer, and Chief Ethicist with Castlebridge. She has worked with clients in a variety of sectors, from telco to healthcare to charities, on consulting and training engagements.

Researcher

Fraunhofer FKIE

+49 228 50212-600
plohmann@cs.uni-bonn.de

Daniel Plohmann is a researcher at Fraunhofer FKIE. His research focuses on Reverse Engineering, Malware Analysis, Advanced simulation methods and techniques.

Professor

Technical University of Braunschweig (CONCORDIA)

+49 531 391 3757
prevelakis@ida.ing.tu-bs.de

Vassilis Prevelakis is a visiting professor at the Technical University, Braunschweig, in Germany. He has worked in various areas of security in Systems and Networks both in his current academic capacity and as a freelance consultant. Prevelakis current research involves issues related to automation network security, secure software design, auto-configuration issues in secure VPNs, etc.

Senior Researcher

University of Toronto Citizenlab

jsr@johnscottrailton.com

John Scott Railton is a senior researcher at the Citizenlab, University of Toronto. His research focuses on malware, phishing and disinformation, Disinformation, Digital counterinsurgency, Communications during conflicts, Networks, communications practices, risks and Internet freedom funding & institutions.

Blogger

Senior advisor for digital policy in the German federal parliament

annalist@riseup.net

Anne Roth is a political scientist, blogger, network and media activist and has been online since the late 1990s. worked as a journalist, online editor and translator.

Dr. Tech., Professor

Universtiy of Oulu

+358 294 482794
Juha.Roening@ee.oulu.fi

Juha Röning is professor of Embedded Systems, University of Oulu. His research focuses on computer vision, robotics, intelligent signal analysis and software security.

Head of Unit Technical and Organisational Data Protection for hHealth and Social Affairs

Bavarian State Commissioner for Data Protection

089 212672-0
poststelle@datenschutz-bayern.de

Corina Scheiter is head of technical and organisational data protection for health and social affairs at the Bavarian State Commissioner for Data Protection.

Senior public prosecutor

Generalstaatsanwaltschaft Bamberg / Zentrum Cybercrime Bayern

0951 / 833-1481
pressestelle@gensta-ba.bayern.de

Christian Schorr is a senior public prosecutor at Generalstaatsanwaltschaft Bamberg / Cybercrime Center Bayern.

Free software movement activist and programmer

The GNU Project

rms@gnuperiod.org

Richard Matthew Stallman is a free software movement activist and programmer and leads the Free Software Movement, which shows how the usual non-free software subjects users to the unjust power of its developers, plus their spying and manipulation, and campaigns to replace it with free (freedom-respecting) software.

Partner

Bureau Brandeis (NL)

+31 (0)20 7606 505
christiaan.alberdingkthijm@bureaubrandeis.com

Christiaan Alberdingk Thijm is partner of bureau Brandeis. He specialises in digital copyright, the liability of intermediaries, privacy and free speech issues. Besides his work as an attorney, he is a senior lecturer at the University of Amsterdam.

Global Technical Director (Consulting)

F-Secure Corporation

tomi.tuominen@f-secure.com

Tomi Tuominen is Global Technical Director (Consulting) at F-Secure Corporation.

Professor, Philosophy

Santa Clara University

408-554-5190
svallor@scu.edu

Shannon Vallor is a Regis and Dianne McKenna Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Santa Clara University in Silicon Valley, and an AI Ethicist/Visiting Researcher at Google. Her research explores the philosophy and ethics of emerging science and technologies, the impact of emerging technologies, moral and intellectual habits and skills and virtues of human beings.

Senior Strategic Analyst and Head of the Strategy & Development team at the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3)

Europol

nvandermeulen@europa.eu

Nicole van der Meulen works as a Senior Strategic Analyst and Head of the Strategy & Development team at the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) at Europol. Her primary publications deal with digital identity theft and cybersecurity policy.

Associate Analyst in the field of Cyber Diplomacy

European Union, Institute for Security Studies (EUISS), Brussels, Belgium

nathalievraemdonck@gmail.com

Nathalie Van Raemdonck is an Associate Analyst at the EUISS primarily working on the EU Cyber Direct project supporting EU Cyber Diplomacy. Her expertise covers Cybersecurity, information warfare and its legal dimensions. She holds a MsC in Political Science from the university of Brussels (VUB) and an LLM in international security from the Free university of Amsterdam (VU). Prior to joining the EUISS, Nathalie worked for the Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium, focusing on improving national capacity.

CEO

Cyber Law International

info@cyberstability.org

Liis Vihul is the Chief Executive Officer of Cyber Law International. She is also a member of the Estonian delegation at the United Nations Group of Governmental Experts on Information and Telecommunications in the Context of International Security, serves as the co-editor of the International Humanitarian Law Group in the Manual on International Law Applicable to Military Uses of Outer Space project, and is an Ambassador of the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence.

Federal Prosecutor

Staatsanwaltschaft II des Katons Zürich

(+41) 043 258 23
kanzlei.sta2@ji.zh.ch

Stephan Walder is Co-Director of the Competence Center Cyber-Crime and Deputy Chief Public Prosecutor of the Public Prosecutor's Office II of the Canton of Zurich.

Co-Head of the Institute for Social Research and Technology Assessment (IST), Director of the Regensburg Center of Health Sciences and Technology (RCHST)

Ostbayrische Technische Hochschule (OTH) Regensburg

+49 (0) 941 943 9222
karsten.weber@oth-regensburg.de

Karsten Weber is Co-Head of the Institute for Social Research and Technology Assessment (IST), Director of the Regensburg Center of Health Sciences and Technology (RCHST), Head of the Laboratory for Technology Assessment and Applied Ethics (LaTE) Research Cluster Ethics, Technology Assessment and Sustainability, Faculty Applied Natural Sciences and Cultural Studies. His research focuses on Ethics, particularly ethics of technology, information ethics, social impacts of the Internet, Technology assessment, acceptance and usability research, ELSI/ELSA research, Philosophy of science, methodological issues of interdisciplinary research, simulations in science and Sustainability.

Internet Data Scientist

CAIDA

phw@caida.org

Philip Winter is an Internet data scientist, and was at CAIDA mostly working on improving the system for Internet Outage Detection and Analysis (IODA). His research focuses on computer networks and security; in particular applied cryptography, anonymity networks, and Internet measurement.