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Elizabeth Charnock
Elizabeth Charnock founded Cataphora and has led it from concept to successful profitability, funded entirely by revenues from clients and without any outside investment. To do this, she has drawn on her prior experience as a CEO and on her extensive knowledge of information retrieval technology and business. She was CEO and founder of Troba, an industry leading customer relationship management software company which she sold in 2001. Ms. Charnock has significant experience in engineering management, management consulting, and restart management at such companies as Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems.
Kenneth Cukier
Kenneth Cukier is the Japan business correspondent of The Economist in Tokyo. He is the author of a 14-page cover story in 2010 called "The Data Deluge." Earlier, he was the paper's technology correspondent in London, focusing on intellectual property and Internet governance. Previously, he was the technology editor of The Wall Street Journal Asia in Hong Kong and the European Editor of Red Herring. From 1992 to 1996 he worked at The International Herald Tribune in Paris. From 2002 to 2004 Mr. Cukier was a research fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where he worked on the Internet and international relations. His writings have also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times and Foreign Affairs, among others. Additionally, Mr. Cukier serves on the board of directors of International Bridges to Justice, a Geneva-based NGO promoting legal rights in developing countries.
Al Di Leonardo
Al Di Leonardo is President and Chief Executive Officer of The HumanGeo Group.
Marc Goodman
Marc Goodman is a global thinker, writer and consultant focused on the disruptive impact of advancing technologies on security,business and international affairs. He frequently advises industry leaders, security executives and global policy makers on transnational cyber risk and intelligence and has operated in nearly seventy countries around the world with organizations such as Interpol, the United Nations and NATO. Mr. Goodman serves as a faculty member at Silicon Valley's Singularity University, a NASA and Google sponsored educational venture dedicated to using advanced science and technology to address humanity's grand challenges. Additionally, he founded the Future Crimes Institute to inspire and educate others on the security implications of emerging technologies such as the social data revolution, artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, virtual worlds, robotics, ubiquitous computing and location-based services.
Mr. Goodman has published numerous articles and book chapters on cybercrime, cyber terrorism and technology-related security risks including publications in the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, Oxford University Press and the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin.
Rafal Rohozinski
Rafal Rohozinski is one of Canada's thought leaders in the field of cybersecurity and Internet freedom. He is the founder and CEO of the Secdev Group and Psiphon inc. His work spans two decades and 37 countries including conflict zones in the CIS, the Middle East, and Africa. In 2010 Rohozinski was named by SC magazine as one of the top five IT security luminaries of the year; and "a person to watch" by the Canadian media. He is known for his work on cyber espionage, including coauthorship of the Tracking GhostNet, and Shadows in the Cloud and Kookface studies examining Chinese cyber espionage networks and global cybercrime. Mr. Rohozinski is a senior scholar at the Canada Center for Global Security Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, and previously served as director of the Advanced Network Research Group, Cambridge Security Program, University of Cambridge. He is a senior research advisor to the Citizen Lab, and together with Ronald Deibert, a founder and principal investigator of the Information Warfare Monitor and the Open Net Initiative.
Mr. Rohozinski is the author of numerous academic and policy papers. His recent publications include "Stuxnet and the Future of Cyberwar" (Survival, IISS, 2011), "Liberation vs. Control: The Future of Cyberspace" (Journal of Democracy, 2010), "New Media and the Warfighter" and, "Strategic utility of cyberspace operations" (US Army War College), and "Risking Security: Policies and Paradoxes of Cyberspace Security" (International Political Sociology, 2010). He is also a lead editor and contributor to "Access Denied: the practice and policy of global Internet filtering" (MIT, 2009) and "Access Controlled: The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace" (MIT 2010). His forthcoming book (co-authored with Ron Deibert), Ghost in the Machine: The Battle for the Future of Cyberspace, will be published by McClelland and Stewart in early 2012.
Rohozinski's commercial ventures are active across the spectrum of cyberspace. The Secdev Group provides clients in the governments and commercial space with intelligence, toolsets, and investigations that inform policy and address risk in the information age. Psiphon inc is a leading content delivery network - cyber-casting content for Voice of America, Radio Farda, Radio Free Asia and the BBC into areas and regions where these broadcasts are censored or blocked. The Secdev Foundation - a Canadian non-for- profit - provides support and advanced research capabilities to university, public research and advocacy efforts aimed at preserving the global commons of cyberspace.
Rohozinski's work and research frequently appears in such publications as the New York Times, Washington Post, and the Guardian, and he has appeared as a commentator on the BBC World Service, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CNN, and other international media.
Encyclopædia Britannica Article
- Economist, The
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