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Steve Babbage, Vodafone
Dr Steve Babbage is a Distinguished Engineer at Vodafone. He is the head of security and
mathematics in Vodafone Group Research and Development, and the chief cryptographer
for the Vodafone Group. Since 2002 he has been the chair of ETSI SAGE (Security
Algorithms Group of Experts), the group that specifies all standardised crypto algorithms for
3GPP. He is also a member of the Fraud and Security Advisory Panel at GSMA, and the Technical Advisory
Board of Nok Nok Labs. Before joining Vodafone, he worked in the mathematics department of Racal
Comsec Ltd, a company that designed, manufactured and supplied communication security equipment
for both commercial and military use around the world; Steve’s department was responsible for the
cryptographic algorithms implemented in all this equipment. Steve received an MA in Mathematics and
Philosophy from Merton College, Oxford and a PhD in Mathematics from Royal Holloway and Bedford New
College, London.
Charles Brookson, OBE CEng FIET FRSA M.Inst.ISP
Charles worked in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills of the United Kingdom
Government for twelve years, and is a Professional Electronic Engineer. He previously was
Head of Security for the UK mobile operator one2one, and worked within British Telecom for
twenty years before that, in the last few years in the Chairman's Office. He has worked in
many security areas over the last 40 years, including Cryptographic systems, secure
designs, policies, auditing, and mobile radio for over 30 years. He now runs his own
Company Zeata Security Ltd and is a Director of Azenby.
He was Chairman on the GSM Association Security Group for 25 years. He has been working within GSM
and 3GPP security standards, first chairing the Algorithm Expert Group way back in 1986. He is Chairman
of the ETSI TC CYBER, responsible for producing Cyber Security Standards, and was on the Permanent
Stakeholders group of ENISA, The European Network and Information Security Agency.
In 2015 Charles Brookson received the Order of the British Empire (OBE) award for his services to
telecommunication security.
Scott Cadzow, Cadzow Communications Consulting ltd
Scott Cadzow has over the past 20 years or so become a recognised standards development
expert, primarily for security standards, in a number of International Standards
Development Organisations including ETSI, ITU-T and ISO. In ETSI Scott has been an active
rapporteur of the TETRA security specifications, the suite of guidance documents for
effective security standards development (covering Common Criteria, Risk analysis, and
security requirements engineering) in technical bodies MTS and TISPAN, and has acted as
an expert to a number of Specialist Task Forces in TETRA, TISPAN, HF, MTS, eHEALTH and AT-D. He has
recently stepped down as chairman of the ETSI ITS Security group after serving since the inception of
ITS in ETSI. In the past Scott has served time as vice-chairman of ETSI Project TETRA WG6 (Security)
and the TETRA Security and Fraud Prevention Group (SFPG), and as vice-chairman of the ETSI Lawful
Interception group. Scott has contributed to reports from ENISA on network resilience, supply chain
integrity and on measures to counter internet bullying. More recently Scott has been involved in a number
of projects expanding the technical definition of smart cities and looking at the integration of ITS to smartcity fostering a personal geographic model that takes the concept of the Local Dynamic Map to a new city
wide and truly personal level. To bring this right up to date Scott has taken a key role as rapporteur of a
number of security standards in ISG NFV and in ETSI TC CYBER to address the long term issues of
cryptographic viability and secure design.
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Marijke De Soete, Security4Biz
Since April 2004 Marijke is offering business and technical consultancy services for systems
and applications based on emerging technologies, in particular related to security. Before
she was holding various positions at Europay and subsequently MasterCard, where she
managed departments responsible for the security aspects of chip card based payment
products including the development and operation of supporting services such as key management. From
1989 till 1994 Marijke worked for Philips where her team was in charge of the design and implementation
of cryptographic protocols and security services using chip cards. She holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from
Ghent University (Belgium) and was more than 15 years involved in research in mathematics and
cryptography. Marijke has been and is still active in several standardisation committees in the domain of
IT security and chip cards including ETSI, ISO, and GlobalPlatform. She was involved in the creation of
EMVCo and acted as a Board member for several years. She is Vice-Chair of ISO/IEC JTC 1 /SC 27, IT
security techniques since 2004.
François Ennesser, Gemalto
Francois Ennesser has been involved in embedded secure applications development and
standardization activities since 1999, first with Bull CP8 and then with Schlumberger
Systems, Axalto and Gemalto. He participated to the definition of secure over-the-air
protocols for remote management of secure elements and contributed to the definition of
an enhanced communication interface for smart cards. He initiated and chaired the initial
definition of the “Inter-Chip USB” low power embedded adaptation of the USB interface
within the USB Implementers Forum. He has been focusing on Machine to Machine standardization since
2008 and is currently chairing the Security Working Group of the oneM2M partnership Project. He
contributes to EU level initiatives on Smart Grids with a focus on critical infrastructure protection and
privacy preservation. He holds a French Engineer's degree from ESIEE and a Master of Science in Electrical
Engineering from the University of Southern California.
Chris Ensor, CESG
Chris joined CESG in 1989 after completing his degree in Microelectronics and Computing at University
College of Wales Aberystwyth. He began his career in the department working on high assurance
'compusec' developments before turning his attention to more practical solutions to governments
business needs, and in particular it's secure use of the Internet. In order to encourage interoperable
secure e-mail solutions he delivered a number of proof of concept systems which were deployed within
UK Government and NATO, the latter being an entertaining trilateral effort with France and Germany. He
has worked in CESG for over 20 years. He is now Head of Profession at CESG for Information Assurance
and has responsibility for developing CESG's role as the National Technical Authority. One of his many
objectives is CESG's Strategic engagement with Academia.
Martin Euchner, Study Group 17 (Security), ITU-T TSB
Martin Euchner serves the ITU-T Study Group 17 as Advisor since 2010. He is also providing
the secretariat for ITU-T JCA-IdM, for ITU-T JCA-COP, for ITU-T TSAG RG-SC, and for the
MoU/MG.
His other careers steps were:
Senior security standardization expert in the fixed network department of Siemens ICN and
then for the CTO within Nokia Siemens Networks, with numerous active contributions to Voice-over-IP
security standards such as H.323/H.235 in ITU-T (ITU-T editor and Rapporteur), ETSI EP TIPHON and
ETSI TC TISPAN (vice chairman of working group 7) on NGN security standards, IETF and IMTC. Further,
also involved in broadband cable standardization such as the ITU-T SG9 IPCablecom project and in ETSI
TC AT-D.
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Security engineer in Siemens R & D labs 1991-2000 on research, development and implementation of
cryptography, network security and security for multimedia systems in various international, national and
company internal projects.
From 2006 till 2010, Martin was working as senior security standardization expert in the fixed network
department of Siemens ICN and then for the CTO within Nokia Siemens Networks. During his career,
Martin has gained broad security expertise in various fields. He oversees the international security
standardization
landscape.
Martin received a master's degree in computer science from Goethe University/Frankfurt.
Florent Frederix, Trust and Cyber-security unit, DG CNECT, European
Commission
Florent Frederix is a principal administrator with responsibility for a portfolio of research
and innovation projects in the domain of cyber-security and he is involved in related policy
development such as the Network Information Security directive and the e-privacy and
European Data protection legislation.
Before joining the cyber-security team, he was Head of the RFID Sector from 2006-2012.
This sector was responsible for the RFID privacy policy of the European Commission and
the promotion of the emerging Internet of Things.
Before joining the European Commission he held management positions in the telecommunication
industry for over 20 years.
His educational basis spans Electronics, Computer Science and Economics.
Gérard Gaudin, Chairman of ETSI ISG ISI
Gerard GAUDIN was graduated from Supelec School (US equiv. MSEE) in 1979.
After a career beginning in two IT multinational companies, he held during 10 years at CS
senior executive positions managing large departments in system integration and
consulting.
Since 2003, he has been leading as an independent consultant (G²C) IT security activities specializing in
Cyber Defence. In this field, he created by the end of 2008 the French “Club R2GS” not-for-profit
Cybersecurity community, whose he is the Chairman. Today, this user community gathers some 50 big
companies and organizations from various industry sectors including the ANSSI Government Agency, and
is expanding across Europe (started in the UK and Germany mid-2012, started in Italy and Luxembourg
mid-2014, Belgium in October 2014).
Moreover, he initiated in 2011 within ETSI a standardisation unit (called ISG ISI), whose he is the
Chairman and whose goal is to address all security incident detection matters. These activities are carried
out in close relation with ISO/JTC1 SC27 and in relation with ITU-T.
Riccardo Genghini, Studio Genghini & Associati, ETSI TC ESI Chairman
Riccardo Genghini is not only one of the best known specialists in the field of electronic
signature standards, he is also a respected academic, Visiting Professor of Comparative
Commercial Law at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan. Developer of
technologies for the certification of digital data, transactions and identities, since 2010 he is
the Chairman of the Electronic Signatures Coordination Group, which coordinates the standardization
effort of CEN and ETSI in the field of electronic signatures, with the aim of providing a rationalised
framework for electronic signatures at EU level (EC mandate 460). This role has been acquired thanks to
his experience as Chairman of technical bodies both in CEN (ISSS - Information Society Standardization
System) and ETSI (ESI - Electronic Signature and Infrastructures). Moreover, he currently carries out his
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activity as a Public Notary in Milan, where in 1990 he founded the Studio Notarile Genghini, one of the
most technologically advanced legal offices in Italy and in Europe in working with digital agreements and
deeds.
Sebastian Gerling, Center for IT--‐Security, Privacy and Accountability (CISPA)
Dr. Sebastian Gerling has been the administrative manager of the Center for IT--‐Security,
Privacy and Accountability (CISPA) since 2012. CISPA is a competence center for IT-‐Security at Saarland University, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and
Research. Since its foundation in 2011, CISPA has become one of the leading research
centers for IT--‐Security in Europe. Sebastian Gerling studied computer science at Saarland University
and pursued his doctoral studies in the area of trust and privacy in mobile and Web systems under
the supervision of Prof. Michael Backes. In 2014, he received his doctoral degree.
Chris Greer, NIST
Chris Greer is Senior Executive for Cyber Physical Systems, Director of the Smart Grid and
Cyber-Physical Systems Program Office, and National Coordinator for Smart Grid
Interoperability at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Prior to joining NIST,
Chris served as Assistant Director for Information Technology R&D in the White House Office
of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and Cybersecurity Liaison to the National Security
Staff. His responsibilities there included networking and information technology research
and development, cybersecurity, and digital scientific data access. He has also served as Director of the
National Coordination Office for the Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and
Development (NITRD) Program. This program coordinates IT R&D investments across the Federal
government, including the cyber-physical systems research portfolio.
Marc Henauer, MELANI OIC
Marc Henauer is the Head of the MELANI Operation and Information Centre. This unit is part
of the Federal Intelligence Service within the Swiss Ministry of Defence, Civil Protection and
Sports. The MELANI OIC Unit is responsible for the analytical and operative parts of the Swiss
Analysis and Reporting Unit for Information Assurance (MELANI). MELANI is mandated with
supporting the Swiss Critical Infrastructures within their Information Assurance Process.
Mr. Henauer was the strategic analyst for economic and cyber criminality within the Service of Analysis
and Prevention, before heading MELAN and part of the Cybercrime Coordination Unit (CYCO). He studied
at the University of Zurich economic science and Media and Communication Management at the University
of St. Gallen. Mister Henauer got his Master of Arts in Security Studies from the Georgetown University
in Washington DC.
Simon Hicks – Chairman of the ETSI General Assembly.
Simon Hicks is the Chairman of the ETSI General Assembly. He is the Principal ICT
Technologist in the Digital Economy Unit of the UK Administration - Department of Culture,
Media and Sport (DCMS) and is the first government official to be Chairman of the General
Assembly. He is responsible for the industry policy development for standards and
technology activity in ICT, electronic communications and cyber security. He is the UK
representative to the European Commission Multi-Stakeholder Platform for ICT standards
and is active in a range of ICT standards and technology work
Simon is a Chartered Engineer and began his civil service career in the UK defence ministry. He led a
team designing and installing radio systems for the air force. He joined the trade and industry ministry
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in 2002 and has been involved in ICT standards work since then, including membership of the ETSI board.
Outside of work Simon is an active member of his church and enjoys walking the family dogs
Simon will be President of the European Standards Organisations Joint President’s Group in 2016.
Demosthenes Ikonomou, ENISA
Demosthenes Ikonomou received his Masters of Science in Electronics and Computer
Sciences and his Ph.D. in applied sciences from the University of Southampton, United
Kingdom, in 1992 and the Université catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve (UCL), Belgium, in
2002 respectively.
Between 1996 and 2008 he worked for DG Information Society & Media (INFSO) of the European
Commission mainly involved in the management of R&D projects in the fields of wireless and personal
communications as well as networked media. In 2008 he joined the Technical Department of the
European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) as a Senior Expert in the section of Security
Tools and Architecture. Currently he holds the position of Head of Information Security & Data Protection
Unit.
Gaby Lenhart, ETSI
Currently, Gaby she is Senior Research Officer at the ETSI Innovations department and,
besides technology foresight, responsible for security aspects in NBIC (interdisciplinary
technologies uniting Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno aspects of ICT). Her main expertise are the
standardization aspects of quantum technologies.
Gaby is member of various Boards, such NetWorld2020 and the 5G PPP.
Gerry McQuaid, Vodafone
Gerry currently works at Vodafone and is responsible for security obligations towards government
across Vodafone's footprint focusing particularly on security and critical infrastructure protection. He is
currently a member of a number of relevant groups including chair of an ETSI Technical Committee and
has been a stakeholder in cybersecurity capacity building in many markets. Prior to Vodafone Gerry was
responsible for deployment of LEA Support systems globally, as well as a first responder with national
and UN agencies during major disasters.
Chris Mitchell, Royal Holloway
Chris Mitchell holds a PhD degree in Mathematics from London University. Prior to
appointment as Professor of Computer Science at Royal Holloway in 1990, he was a Project
Manager at HP Laboratories in Bristol, which he joined in 1985. Between 1979 and 1985 he
was at Racal Comsec Ltd (Salisbury, UK), latterly as Chief Mathematician. After joining Royal
Holloway he co-founded the Information Security Group, and also helped launch the MSc in Information
Security in 1992. His research interests are in information security and applications of cryptography. He
has participated in a significant number of international collaborative research projects. He has served
in ISO/IEC JTC1/SC27 since 1992; he has edited around twenty international security standards and in
2011 he received the IEC 1906 award. He has published well over 200 research papers. He is co-editorin-chief of Designs, Codes and Cryptography and section editor of section D of The Computer Journal.
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Kathleen Moriarty, Security Area
Serving as the IETF Security Area Director, Kathleen Moriarty is also the Global Lead
Security Architect with the EMC Office of the CTO working on technology strategy and
standards. Kathleen has been the primary author of multiple published standards and
actively contributes to security standards activity in the IETF. Previously, as the Practice
Manager for security consulting at EMC, Kathleen was responsible for oversight of key
projects, and development of security programs, in addition to serving as the acting CISO
of a global investment banking firm. Kathleen has also been the head of IT Security at MIT Lincoln
Laboratory and the Director of Information Security at FactSet Research Systems. Kathleen holds a
Masters of Science degree in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Dr. Markus Mueck, Intel
Dr. Markus Mueck received the Dipl.-Ing. and ing. dipl. degrees from the University of
Stuttgart, Germany and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST),
Paris, France respectively in 1999. In 2006, he received the Doctorate degree of ENST in
Communications. Dr. Mueck is with Intel Mobile Communications, Munich, Germany and he
acts as ETSI Board Member supported by INTEL, as general Chairman of ETSI RRS Technical
Body (Software Radio and Cognitive Radio Standardization), he is Adj. Professor of
Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia and chairman of the IEEE Technical Committee on
Cognitive Networks (TCCN) SIG on “Cognitive Radio in 5G”. He contributed actively to various
standardization bodies, namely ETSI, Digital Radio Mondiale, IEEE 802.11n, etc. and lead the creation of
the novel standardization group IEEE P1900.4 in the area of Cognitive Radio and Software Defined Radio
(SDR).
Karsten Nohl
Karsten is a cryptographer and security researcher. He likes to test security assumptions in
proprietary systems and typically breaks them.
Hervé Pierre, Chairman of the Board, SIMalliance
Embedded Software & Products (E&P), Senior Director, Strategy, Gemalto
Hervé Pierre is Senior Director of Strategy within Gemalto’s Embedded Software & Products
team. Prior to this role he served as full-time General Secretary of SIMalliance from October
2006 until 2014, when he became Gemalto’s representative on the association’s Board of
Directors.
Mr Pierre was elected as SIMalliance’s Chairman of the Board for the 2014-15 term. Between 2003 and
2006, he served as part-time SIMalliance General Secretary, alongside his role as Director of Strategic
Programs within the Gemplus Telecom Business Unit (now Gemalto). Prior to earlier roles at Gemplus, Mr
Pierre also held roles at Alcatel Business Systems and Olivetti.
Anand R. Prasad < http://prasad.bz/>, Dr. & ir. from Delft University of Technology, The
Netherlands, is Chief Advanced Technologist, Executive Specialist, at NEC, Japan, where he
leads mobile communications security activity. Anand is the chairman of 3GPP SA3, a
member of the governing body of GISFI, founder chairman of the GISFI Security & Privacy
group and a governing council member of TSDSI. He has 20+ years of experience in wireless
/ mobile communications product design, development and business development in
companies around the globe. His latest book is on “Security in Next Generation Mobile Networks: SAE/LTE
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and WiMAX” & he is editor-in-chief of the “Journal of ICT Standardisation”, River Publishers. He is a
recipient of the 2014 ITU-AJ "Encouragement Award: ICT Accomplishment Field" and the 2012 (ISC)²
“Asia Pacific Information Security Leadership Achievements (ISLA) Award as a Senior Information
Security Professional”. Anand holds CISSP certification, is Fellow IETE and Senior Member IEEE.
Jean-Pierre Quemard
Graduated from Ecole Nationale de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace in 1973.
Department head Avionics at Dassault Electronique in Digital systems division
MATRA Communication / MATRA NORTEL COMMUNICATIONS : Directeur technique /
Technical director of private radio networks (creation of Tetrapol technology) within radio communication
division. Directeur R&D / R&D Director PMR division.
AIRBUS Defence and Space (former Cassidian), from 2001; Chief Security Officer, currently VP
Intelligence and Security
President ACN (Alliance pour la Confiance Numérique) IT security professional association, Vice-President
FIEEC
1st Vice-President ACSIEL (Electronics Professional Syndicate), Chairman of Export Standardisation IE
commission at CoFIS (Comité de filière sécurité, National Security cluster), President AFNOR IT Security
Standardisation board, Head of French delegation at ISO SC27, Editor of International standards in
cryptography, Vice Chairman ETSI TC cyber security, Vice Chairman of European Cyber security
coordination group, Advisor to European Commission in security, EADS Research foundation scientific
council member, EUREKA CATRENE board member.
Kai Rannenberg, ENISA
Kai Rannenberg holds the Deutsche Telekom Chair of Mobile Business & Multilateral
Security at Goethe University Frankfurt since 2002. Before he was working with the
System Security Group at Microsoft Research Cambridge on „Personal Security Devices
& Privacy Technologies“.
Since 1991 Kai is active in ISO/IEC standardization in JTC 1/SC 27/WG 3 “Security
evaluation criteria”. 2007 he became Convenor of SC 27/WG 5 “Identity management
and privacy technologies”.
2004 till 2013 Kai served as the academic expert in the Management Board of the European Network and
Information Security Agency, and is now a member of ENISA’s Permanent Stakeholder Group.
Kai's research interests include:
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Mobile applications and Multilateral Security in e.g. M-Business, M-Commerce, and LBS;
Privacy and identity management, especially attribute based authorisation
Communication infrastructures and devices, e.g. personal security assistants and services;
Security and privacy standardisation, evaluation, and certification.
Carmine Rizzo, ETSI, CISA CISM CMP ITIL PRINCE2
Dr. Carmine Rizzo has worked in the ETSI Secretariat in France since November 2007, where
he is responsible for the co-ordination of various Technical Committees and is the ETSI
Secretariat point of reference for security standardization activities.
He obtained a Master Degree in Electronic/Telecommunication Engineering in Italy, followed
by a Ph.D in Radio Communications in the United Kingdom.
His professional background in the United Kingdom includes experience in the private sector for Nortel
Networks as Data Communications Network Engineer, and over five years' experience in the international
organization ECMWF (European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts), working in an operational
environment for the management of IT projects, services and security.
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He has gained, and actively maintains, several professional certifications covering broad aspects of
technical security and security management, as well as project management, IT audit, control, service
and change management.
Marc Rogers, cloudFlare
Marc Rogers is Principal Security Researcher at CloudFlare. Marc is a whitehat hacker who
has worked in the security industry for almost twenty years, including a decade managing
security for the UK operator Vodafone. As well as his work in the telecoms industry, Marc
has been a CISO in South Korea and founded a disruptive Bay Area startup. Marc is a security evangelist,
who has a positive outlook on how security should be implemented in today’s global organizations. It's
this outlook that Marc used when he helped put together the award winning BBC series "The Real
Hustle". Marc is also the Head of Security at DEF CON, the world’s largest Hacker conference.
Luis Jorge Romero, ETSI
Luis Jorge Romero, Director General of ETSI, has more than 20-years experience in the
telecommunications sector. At ETSI he has initiated a global standardization partnership
for Machine to Machine communications, oneM2M, has overseen the rapid development of
ETSI’s Industry Specification Group on Network Functions Virtualization, and has driven the
implementation of the ETSI Long Term Strategy, an ambitious plan to prepare the institute for the future.
Previously he has held diverse Director positions in Spain, Morocco and Mexico, predominantly with
Telefonica. As Global Director for International Roaming and Standards, and Director of Innovation and
Standards, he oversaw Telefonica's participation in global standardization activities, and participated
directly in the work of the Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) Alliance and in the GSM Association
(GSMA). Before joining ETSI in July 2011, he held the position of Director General of Innosoft and was
also a partner and board member of Madrid-based Innology Ventures.
Bengt Sahlin, Ericsson
Bengt Sahlin has an M.Sc. in Computer Science from Aalto University (former Helsinki
University of Technology (TKK)).
At TKK, he has also lectured on Modern Data Communications as well as on DNS and DNS
security.
He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).
Bengt has worked in the fields of data- and telecommunications for 19 years, mostly with
security aspects.
In 2000 he joined Ericsson where he has worked on mobile systems security and product security.
He was also technical coordinator for Ericsson's security implementation projects, and is a manager of a
security research group within Ericsson. Bengt Sahlin was 3GPP TSG SA WG3 chairman 2010-2013."
Dr. Klaus Vedder, Giesecke & Devrient
Klaus was educated at the universities of Tübingen, Birmingham and London where he
received a Ph.D. in Pure Mathematics.
In 1987 he moved to his present company Giesecke & Devrient where he set up the SIM
business for GSM. When bundling the telecommunication activities in a new Division in the
late 90s he became Head of this Division with world-wide responsibility for all activities in
the field of telecommunications. Today Klaus is Group Senior Vice President and CTO for the
Business Unit Mobile Security.
Klaus involvement in standardisation of security is manifold.
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He was elected chairman of the ISO/IEC committee SC27 "Information technology - Security techniques"
in 1992, a position he held until 1996. He was also editor of two International Standards on authentication
techniques.
Klaus has been involved in the standardisation of the SIM from the very beginning in early 1988. He has
held the position of chairman of SIMEG, the SIM Expert Group then responsible for the standardisation of
the SIM, and the various committees succeeding it since 1993. Today he chairs the ETSI Technical
Committee "Smart Card Platform" (TC SCP) which was set up in the year 2000 to elaborate a generic
smart card platform (called UICC) for mobile communication and other systems. Klaus also chaired the
SIM Group within the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) from its inauguration in December 1998
until the summer of 2002.
Paul Waller, CESG
Paul Waller is technical lead for Trusted Platforms in CESG - The UK Government's National Technical
Authority for Information Assurance. His current focus is on hardware security technology in massmarket devices. As well as leading research, he is an active promoter of security technology adoption in
government and industry.
Previous roles have included cryptographic evaluation and algorithm optimisation. He has a degree in
mathematics.
Dirk Weiler, Nokia Networks
Dirk Weiler is Chairman of the ETSI Board and the ETSI IPR Special Committee, the ETSI
representative to the European Commission's ICT Multi-Stakeholder Platform, Vice Chairman
of the German BITKOM Working Group Standardization, member of the CEN-CENELEC-ETSI
Joint Presidents' Group and a member of the DIN Presidential Committee FOKUS.ICT.
He is Head of Standards Management & Horizontal in the Networks Business of Nokia,
responsible for standardization policy, membership portfolio, type approval and
environmental standardization.
He regularly appears as speaker or moderator in conferences and events about technology,
standardization and IPR topics.
From 2010-2014 he was Chairman of the ETSI General Assembly. Until 2006 he held various
management positions in development, research, intellectual property, standardization and
marketing in Siemens. Since 1988 he has been working actively in standardization on technical as well
as board level in ETSI, ITU, OMA and various other bodies.
He joined Siemens in 1985, starting in the development of the Mobile Communication System C450, after
his graduation in Physics from the University of Cologne and the Institute of Nuclear research in Jülich,
Germany.
Rigo Wenning, W3C
Rigo Wenning is the Legal counsel of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) working out of the European
host, the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) where he is also
heading the legal department. Rigo represents W3C in the European Commission's Multistakeholder
Platform for Standardization. He is the Technical Coordinator of a Web Security Research Project called
STREWS and also involved in the Big Data Europe Project.
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Nicholas Witchell,BBC
Nicholas Witchell has worked for BBC News for nearly 40 years in a variety of roles, as a
correspondent reporting, among other places, from Belfast during the Troubles, from
Bosnia on the war in the former Yugoslavia and from Baghdad on the disintegration in
Iraq. He has also been a network news presenter (launching the Six O’Clock News with
Sue Lawley in 1984 and the BBC Breakfast News with Jill Dando in 1989); and the BBC
radio commentator at national and state occasions. For the past fifteen years he’s been
the BBC’s royal correspondent reporting on the British monarchy and covering, among many other things,
the Golden and Diamond Jubilees of the Queen and the marriage of Prince William and Catherine
Middleton.
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