Reijo Erik Aarnio (FIN), Finnish Data Protection Authority

Mr. Aarnio (born 1955) graduated from the University of Helsinki, Faculty of Law in 1981. In 1997 he became Data Protection Ombudsman. He is a member of numerous governmental Steering Groups dealing with Information Security and he collaborates with the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health working group on labour issues.

He holds world-class experience from the Joint Supervisory Authority of Schengen, Joint Supervisory Body and Appeals Committee of Europol, Expert group on credit histories and Article 29 Data Protection Working Party.

From 2000 to 2004 he was the vice chairman of the Party. He is a collaborator of the European Commission in the Projects addressed to candidate countries (Twinning and PHARE) and has chaired the Schengen Evaluation Team. He has also given lectures both in Finland and the USA and he leads the Editorial Board for the magazine Tietosuoja (Data Protection).

Kathya Aguila (ESP)

Mrs Aguila is a Spanish Lawyer specialising in Information Society, Telecommunications and Media Law.

She holds a Master in Law and Information Technology and in E- Business at La Salle University (Barcelona). Also, she is Lead Auditor in ISO/IEC 27001 by BSI Management System. She has worked in a prestigious Law Firm in Barcelona and in Telefonica Group. She has written Articles about e-commerce and the Information Society and E-Commerce Spanish Law, and Internet 2.0, mobile telephony and fundamental rights (privacy, data protection, honour and image). She was speaker in "Internet World" in 2004 and 2007. Currently, she works as Data Protection Legal Manager in Mecalux Group, a multinational leading company in the storage system market.

Luca Bolognini

Luca Bolognini is the President of the Italian Institute for Privacy. He is a lawyer admitted at the Bar in Rome, founding partner of ICT Legal Consulting Balboni Bolognini law firm, and works throughout Italy as a consultant and trainer in matters of personal data protection (D.Lgs. 196/2003), information/communication and new technologies law and compliance models for corporate accountability and responsibility (D.Lgs. 231/2001). He deals in particular with legal and privacy aspects of cloud computing, marketing, e-Health, telecommunications, software industry, defensive investigations, energy, copyright and intellectual property rights. Luca Bolognini provides assistance to companies in administrative litigation matters by the Italian independent administrative authorities. Furthermore, he writes books, documents and legal analysis of new technologies. He was a co-founder and is a Scientific Committee Member of European Privacy Association. He has been writing editorials for Italian and international newspapers and magazines (such as Corriere della Sera, Il Sole 24 Ore, The Wall Street Journal, Affari Italiani, European Voice) for many years and participating regularly in conferences and radio/TV broadcasts on privacy, ICT law and policies of innovation matters. He wrote and edited with Diego Fulco first Italian commentary on “Privacy Code for lawyers and private investigators”, published by Giuffrè (2009). He was also the co-author and editor with Paganini and Fulco of the book “Next Privacy”, published by RCS Etas (2010), which contains essays on e-Health and cloud computing. Early in his career, Luca Bolognini worked directly as a hi-tech and publishing entrepreneur. Among various activities, he was founding partner and president of the Gullivertown multimedia book company from 2000 to 2005. He obtained his Law degree from the University of Bologna. He speaks fluent Italian and English, and has a good knowledge of Spanish. Website: www.lucabolognini.it

Magnus Boyd

Magnus Boyd is a Partner at London based media law firm Carter-Ruck.
He specialises in the protection of privacy against media intrusion.
Magnus protects the rights of those whose privacy has been invaded by the Media and in the prevention of private and confidential information being put into the public domain unlawfully. His work is focused on the competing rights of Articles 8 and 10 and the balance between the individual’s right to respect for private and family life and the Media’s right to freedom of expression.
Magnus is frequently called upon to injunct the media to prevent material from being published unlawfully and to take action post-publication or broadcast to claim damages for the publication of intrusive, confidential or private information.
His particular areas of interest are:
- The protection of ‘false private information’.
- The extension of Article 8 protection to reputation in all its forms.
- The influence of prevailing moral and social values on the scope of Article 8 protection.
- The distinction between the ‘public interest’ and what is interesting to the public.

Daniel Cooper (GB)

Daniel Cooper is a partner with Covington & Burling LLP and both a qualified UK solicitor and US attorney.  Mr. Cooperheads up the firm's global privacy and data security practice in London, and counsels clients in the information technology, pharmaceutical research, sports and financial services industries, among others, on European and UK data protection, data retention and freedom of information laws, as well as associated information technology and e-commerce laws and regulations. Mr. Cooper also regularly counsels clients with respect to Internet-related liabilities under European and US laws.  Mr. Cooper sits on the advisory boards of a number of privacy NGOs, privacy think tanks, and related bodies.  He is a graduate of Princeton University (B.A.), Harvard Law School (J.D.) and Oxford University (M.St.).

Alexandra Darraby (US)

Alexandra Darraby is a principal in the California-based Art Law Firm, and a founder and managing member of Creative Vision Strategies, LLC, a New York strategic planning company for arts and urban projects. Ms. Darraby advises corporate, private, institutional and entertainment clients on intellectual property, privacy rights, confidentiality, celebrity and publicity rights. She consults on corporate best practices for e-commerce issues of disclosure, privacy and confidentiality, and proprietary and protected IP data in social media and networks, e-communication and traditional media. Her specialty includes balancing the interests of the not for profit corporation regarding public disclosure regulation, on the one hand, and proprietary, intellectual property and privacy interests of those organizations, their donors, grantors and constituencies.

Ms. Darraby is the author of Law of Digital Art, scheduled for publication next year, and Art, Artifact, Architecture and Museum Law, in its 15th edition, published by Thomson Reuters West. She chaired a program at the European Parliament in 2008 on a comparison of Privacy in the EU and the USA. A former art law professor, Ms. Darraby, who also taught professional legal ethics, is Division Chair of Arts & Museums and Co-Chair of International Intellectual Property Rights for the American Bar Association. She is on the California State Copyright and International Committees, and Chairs the 2011 Program Committee of the Copyright Society of the USA. She earned a Master’s Degree from Berkeley on East Asia, and a J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law. Ms. Darraby in 2010 was awarded a Fulbright-Hays (Russia), and has been hosted as an art law specialist by countries in the E.U. She is a member of the American Advisory Board for the Uffizi Gallery, Florence. Ulrika M. Dellrud (SWE)

Ms. Dellrud is an attorney with twelve years of practical experience in the fields of Data Protection, Privacy, Government Relations and Information Technology. She has divided this time between Brussels and Washington, D.C. She is a member of the New York bar and a Swedish citizen.

She currently advises clients on an independent basis. She comes most recently from General Electric Company’s Corporate International Law & Policy team where she served as Legal Counsel for Data Protection, Regulation and Government Relations between 2002 and 2009. Before joining GE, she was in private practice both in Brussels and Washington, D.C. She has also worked in the State Aid unit of the Competition Directorate of the European Commission and at the Swedish Representation to the EU in Brussels.
Ms. Dellrud’s broad experience in data protection and privacy covers a wide range of operational, compliance, regulatory and policy matters. As one of the drafters of GE’s Binding Corporate Rules (BCRs), she led the approval process of the BCRs in the individual EU Member States, acquiring an in-depth knowledge of their approval processes.

She is extensively involved in industry data protection advocacy efforts and a member of different associations, working groups, and task forces. As rapporteur for data privacy questions at the American Chamber of Commerce to the EU, she led a number of policy initiatives including: drafting of position papers on improvements to international data transfers and the revision of the EU Data Protection Directive; drafting the industry-alternative controller-to-controller and controller-to-processor contractual clauses together with the International Chamber of Commerce; and leading outreach campaigns to Member States’ Data Protection Authorities.

Ms. Dellrud is a graduate of Stockholm and Georgetown Universities and has also pursued Advanced European Legal Studies at the College of Europe in Bruges. She is one of ten members of the Executive Committee of the Georgetown University European Law Alumni Advisory Board.

Nicola Fabiano (ITA)

Mr. Nicola Fabiano is an Italian Lawyer since 1993, Counsel in the Italian Supreme Court and Civil Law Specialist. He deals with privacy, ICT and data security issues at Italian and International level. He is also studying and writing about PETs, Privacy by Design and Privacy by Default according the statement, principles and concepts of the Commissioner of Ontario Dr. Ann Cavoukian.
He is the Director of the CINFOR (Centro per l’Informatica e l’Innovazione Forense – Centre for informatics and forensic innovation), that is a Body of the Bar Association of Foggia and he also is the IT person in charge at the Bar Council of Foggia.
He worked as external expert and advisor for ADICONSUM (Italian consumer association), as part of the Italian node of the European Safer Internet Programme, for the “EAST - Easy to Stop-it” project, running from January 2007 to December 2008 and for the next project “EAST2 - Easy to Stop-it” project, running from January 2009 to December 2010; he was member, on behalf of the Italian node, of the European social networking task force called from the European Commission, 2008 - 2010, participating in the activities till the output of the principles carried out on 10.2.2009. He also worked as external expert and advisor for ADICONSUM for the European project "Youth Protection Roundtable" (YPRT).
He is member of the ENISA Awareness Raising Community and enrolled in the official ENISA CEI (Call for Expressions of Interest) List of “Experts for identifying emerging and future risks posed by new ICTs”, since 2009.
He is Sector Director of the Italian Institute for Privacy (IIP-Istituto Italiano Privacy), Member of the Council Internet of Things (http://www.theinternetofthings.eu), Member of AIPSI (Associazione Italiana Professionisti Sicurezza Informatica) - ISSA (Information Systems Security Association) Italian chapter.
He is often speaker in meetings and conferences.

Serge Gijrath

Serge Gijrath is an attorney at the Stibbe law firm in Amsterdam,the Netherlands, where he heads the TMT practice. He is also part-time lecturer at the Computer Law Institute of the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. His practice focuses on all aspects of IT, telecommunications, privacy, electronic commerce and media law and regulation. Serge possesses in-depth knowledge of the technological aspects of IT and communications. He holds a PhD in telecommunications law from Tilburg University and degrees from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy and the Universteit van Amsterdam. He regularly publishes on topics relating to IT & communications.

His interests in the field of privacy regulation include: cloud computing and privacy; Binding Corporate Rules
Sourcing and privacy; and Global privacy issues.

Christine Hafskjold (NOR)

Mrs Hafskjold has worked as a project manager with the Norwegian Board of Technology since 2004. During that period she has worked extensively with issues related privacy, such as Internet policy, Digital Rights Management, The Information Society in 2020 (foresight study) and PRISE - Privacy and security in Europe. She has also been involved in the development of "You Decide... Thoughts and facts about protecting your personal data", a campaign aimed at secondary schools. The campaign has been translated to several languages.

Previous to her engagement with the NBT, Mrs. Hafskjold has 10 years experience in IT consulting, both as a Project Manager and Systems Architect. She has worked with all aspects of IT projects, particularly large public IT-systems, and projects in e-commerce.

Website: www.teknologiradet.no

Rosario Imperiali (ITA)

Mr. Imperiali is an italian lawyer, co-founder of Studio Legale Imperiali and writes a journalist in various italian newspapers.
He is co-author of books on specific aspects of data privacy and former visiting professor at Cattaneo University – Castellanza on Information and Communication law (2004-2008).
He created and directed the Legal research office of IBM Italy (1985-1992) and was a member of the European Commission ECDG XIII INFO 2000 Senior Experts Group.
Website: www.imperiali.com

Prof.dr. Borka Jerman-Blažič

Prof.dr. Borka Jerman-Blažič is a professor at the University of Ljubljana (Department of Economics), and heads the Laboratory for Open Systems and Networks at Jožef Stefan Institute. The Laboratory is involved with more than twenty years in European Union Framework Program projects in the area of ICT and related field (www.e5.ijs.si). In addition, she teaches ICT Security in e-commerce at the Postgraduate School of Criminal Justice, University of Maribor and at the postgraduate international school Jožef Stefan.

A member of the IEEE Computer Society, ACM, New York Academy of science, IFIP TC6/TC11 on Multimedia Security and appointed member to UNECE/CEFAT UN (Economic Commission for Europe) group for Internet enterprise development, appointed member of eTEN management committee of EU, member of FP7 Programming Committee on Security, Prof.dr.. Borka Jerman-Blažič was also Chair of the Internet Society of Europe (www.isoc-ecc.org) in the first mandate (2004-2007), Distinguished Member of Slovene Society for Informatics, and member of the editorial board of the international journal of Technology Enhanced e-Learning and International journal on advances in Internet technology. She is also Chair of Slovenian Standardisation Committee on ICT as well as chair of the Slovenian chapter of Internet Society and is member of the European ICT Standardisation Board.

Prof.dr.Borka Jerman-Blažič has been involved with many conferences, including WWW conference 2004, INET conferences, IFIP TC6 conferences, NATO Advanced workshops on Security in Networking, Summer Schools on Security etc., and writes extensively.

Prof.dr.Borka Jerman-Blažič holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from University of Ljubljana and a Ph.D in natural and computing sciences from University of Zagreb.

Sylvia Kierkegaard (DEN)

Mrs Kierkegaard (LL.B.,LL.M,Ph.D., MA, MSc. Intl.Business, PGDipl. Private Law; PG.Dip. EU Law) is a Professor at the Communications University of China, i-Laws Int. Associate, Visiting Professor at the University of Southampton, and Visiting Professor at University of Malaya.

She is a Regulatory Expert at the Council of Europe and the European Commission. She is   the President of the International Association of IT lawyers and Scientific Board member/adviser to numerous national and international organisations.
She is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Private Law (Inderscience), Journal of International Commercial Law and Technology, Intl. Journal of Liability & Scientific Enquiry; managing editor of   the Journal of Legal Technology Risk Management (NY); Associate Editor of the IJIIM (Inderscience) and IJIDE (IGI)).  She is an editorial board member of over 20 top journals and has published over 2000 articles and books.
Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Kierkegaard

Dr. Birgitte Kofod Olsen

Dr. Birgitte Kofod Olsen acts as vice director in the Danish Institute for Human Rights (DIHR). She has 16 years of research experience in the field of human rights and extensive analytical experience in the field of privacy, including a PhD thesis in biometrics and data protection. Throughout the years she has contributed to the public debate on privacy issues, conducted training, seminars and workshops and created dialogue among civil society, industry and public authorities on the privacy impact of new technology.
From 2006-08 she served as member of the advisory board of the EU FP7 project PRISE and is currently involved in the management board of the EU FP7 project Detecter, both focussing on surveillance technology and privacy.
In 2008 she was appointed member of the Danish IT Security Committee by the Danish Minister of Research and Science.

Cecilia Magnusson Sjöberg

Professor, LL.D., Director of the Swedish Law & Informatics Research Institute (IRI) at the Stockholm University Faculty of Law, Chairman of the Swedish Trust for Legal Information, former Royal Academy of Sciences Research Fellow. She was awarded a doctoral degree in 1992, with a thesis addressing legal automation with special focus on computerisation in public administration.

Legal implications of e-government remains as one of her major fields of work. In addition to substantive components of IT law she has had many years of experience of legal system design and management, given rise to information security issues and the need for electronic signatures etc. Another research theme has been the possibilities of cross fertilization of methods for security enhancement and applications of information standards in the legal domain. Her current research concerns data protection in global networks considering both privacy protection and legal aspects of information security. She is responsible for a variety of university programmes and is frequently engaged as lecturer for practicing lawyers as well as for IT professionals e.g. at King´s College, London. A list of her publications is available at juridicum.su.se

Yves Poullet, Ph.D (BEL)

M. Poullet holds a PhD in Law and graduated in Philosophy, is full professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Namur (FUNDP) and Liège (Ulg), Belgium.
He teaches different topics like: “Sources and Principles of the Law”, “Internet Regulations”, “International Commercial Law", and “Human Rights in the Information Society”.
Yves Poullet heads the CRID, since its creation in 1979. He conducts various researches in the field of new technologies with a special emphasis on privacy issues, individual and public freedom in the Information Society and Internet Governance.
He is legal experts near the UNESCO and the Council of Europe.
He has been during 12 years (1992-2004) member of the Belgian Commission on Data Protection (Commission belge de protection de la vie privée). In addition, he was since its origin, member of Legal Advisory Board of European Commission and the president of the Task Force “Electronic Democracy and Access to public records”.
He has received the Franqui Chair in 2004.
He also chaired the Belgian Computer Association ABDI (Association Belge de Droit de l'Informatique). Yves Poullet is an active member of the Editorial Board of various famous law reviews.
He is a founder of the European Telecommunication Forum, ECLIP and FIRILITE.

Marco R. Provvidera (ITA-USA)

Mr. Provvidera is an attorney admitted and currently practicing in both the New York and Italy jurisdictions. Maintaining offices in New York City and Rome, he advises government entities, US and EU corporations, top-tier international IT security consultants, and private individuals on a broad range of domestic and cross-border legal issues. Marco earned an LL.M at NYU School of Law, and a post-graduate diploma in international finance in San Francisco, CA, and, with a solid background in corporate law, commercial contracts and civil/corporate litigation, as well as substantial experience as in-house counsel, private practitioner and top government consultant, he currently specializes in corporate compliance and governance, corporate finance and contracts, capital markets, banking law, privacy, IT security, intellectual property, business and cross-border litigation, E-discovery, EU law.

Mr. Provvidera was recently appointed to join the international legal experts panel of the prestigious “International Journal of Digital Investigations”, is a frequent speaker at international professional meetings/events, and a contributor on international business issues to professional newsletters and legal/financial publications. Marco is member of the American Bar Association’s Section of International Law Committee on Information Services, Technology and Data Protection and Section of Business Law Committees on Business and Corporate Litigation and Corporate Compliance; he is also a member of the Law Society of England and Wales, International Division, and of the International Bar Association, European Forum and North America Forum.