Mr Aarnio holds a Master of Laws degree of the University of Helsinki. In 2004 he was appointed Honorary Doctor of Laws of the University of Lapland. He is also a lecturer in the Faculty of Law, University of Lapland, Northern Finland School of Judges, Helsinki University of Technology, the Robert Schuman study programme on international criminal law, and others.

He got a law degree (LL.D) from the University of Zurich with post graduate study at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich.

Head of the unit "European and International Affairs" at the German Federal Data Protection Commissioner's office. He is author of commentary books on the German Federal Data Protection Act and on the EC Data Protection Directive and of many other publications. He has worked as a consultant for the EU Commission and for international companies.

Peter Harris was born in Guernsey in 1946, graduating from Exeter College Oxford with an MA in Physics and subsequently undertaking research in electron spectroscopy at Keele University, where he obtained a Ph.D. in 1972. He was elected a Fellow of the British Computer Society in 1972, became a Chartered Engineer in 1990 and a Chartered IT Professional in 2004.

He has been closely involved in the development of data protection legislation from the start, both at the national and at the international level.

Mr. Lommel holds a Master of Laws degree of the University of Nancy (France) and started his professional career as a lawyer, then as a public prosecutor at the Tribunal of Luxembourg.

- Director of the Spanish Data Protection Agency.

Mr. Pizzetti is Full Professor of Constitutional Law in the University of Turin, Italy, Faculty of Law, and Professor in the Link University of Malta in Rome. He has held academic offices in other Italian Universities.

From 1987 — 2003 Marie Shroff held the position of Secretary of the Cabinet and Clerk of the Executive Council. As Secretary/Clerk she was responsible for the operation of Cabinet, the Executive Council, and Government House, and for related constitutional advice. Throughout her 16 years as Secretary of the Cabinet she undertook and implemented major reforms of policy and practices in these areas of responsibility.

Commissaire à la protection de la vie privée du Canada

Hanspeter Thür studied law in Basel and gained licentiate degrees in both of the above-mentioned law sectors.

Membre de la Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés depuis 1992, Président de l'autorité de contrôle Schengen de 1995 à 1997, de l'autorité de contrôle commune d'Europol (2000—2002), de l'autorité de contrôle d'Eurodac (2003) et vice-Président de la CNIL de 2002 à 2004, Alex Türk est Président de la Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés depuis le 3 février 2004.

Chair of Europol Joint Supervisory Body

Ms. Antokol is a Vice President at Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation and serves as the Head of Global Privacy for Novartis Group companies. In that capacity, she is responsible for ensuring privacy compliance, establishing privacy procedures and coordinating training programs for all Novartis affiliates worldwide.

Avocat et Notaire

Drs John Borking is Director of Borking Consultancy (Wassenaar) and Associate Board member of the Dutch Data Protection Authority (CBP) in The Hague (The Netherlands). He is participating in EU financed projects doing research on privacy and identity management (PRIME), privacy Ontologies, developing ontology capture methodology and information architectures in relation to data protection laws and privacy in the ambient world.

Herbert Burkert is Professor for Public Law, Information and Communication Law and President of the Research Centre for Information Law at the University of St.Gallen, Switzerland. He is a Senior Researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute for Media Communications in Germany (currently on leave of absence). He is an International Fellow of the Yale Law School Information Society Project and has been an International Scholar at the Information Law and Policy Institute of the New York Law School. Herbert Burkert has studied law , history and political science at the University of Cologne and at the University College Dublin; he received his law doctorate for the University of Frankfurt and his habilitation from the University of St.Gallen.

Secretary-General to the Italian Data Protection Authority

Detached to the OECD from the French Ministry of Justice, Anne Carblanc is senior advisor for policy issues related to the protection of privacy and the security of information systems and networks. Prior to joining the OECD, she was appointed Secretary General of the French national data protection authority (the Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés) where she served for five years. She had previously worked ten years in the French judicial system both as "juge d'instruction" (a judge in charge of criminal investigations) and as the head of the criminal legislative unit in the Ministry of Justice.

Commissioner

Directeur a.i. de l'Institut suisse de droit comparé à Lausanne ; en parallèle (depuis 1996), professeur titulaire de droit de la communication à l'Université de la Suisse italienne (Faculté des sciences de la communication), professeur invité à l'Université de Lausanne (DEA en droit, criminalité et sécurité des nouvelles technologies)

Malcolm Crompton is Managing Director of Information Integrity Solutions P/L, providing high level advice to private sector and public sector organisations on building trust through excellent data governance, particularly in their collection and use of personal information. He is also Principal of The Trust Dimension.

Karen Curtis was appointed as Federal Privacy Commissioner for five years from 12 July 2004. Karen has had a policy interest in privacy for some time. She was appointed by the Governor General to the Privacy Advisory Committee in December 2000 and in her previous position as Director, Industry Policy, of the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) she had responsibility for privacy from a business perspective.

Jari-Pascal Curty was born in 1974 in Lausanne, Switzerland. He received the M.S. in electrical engineering from ETHZ in 2000. He is currently writing his Ph.D. thesis on wireless power transmission and Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) at the Electronics Laboratories at EPFL. His research interests include wireless systems with a particular emphasis on RFID, RF integrated circuit design and CAD tools.

Né le 13 juin 1948 à Paris, ancien élève de l'Ecole supérieure des travaux publics, Georges de La Loyère débute sa carrière d'ingénieur chez Campenon Bernard, dont il devient le directeur commercial en 1981. Il prend ensuite en charge la direction générale de la Compagnie de bâtiment et de construction de 1983 à 1997. Il est membre du Conseil économique et social depuis 1999, membre du groupe de personnalités qualifiées, membre de la section des finances ainsi que de la section de la conjoncture.

A l'Assemblée Nationale, Patrick DELNATTE est membre de la commission des lois et de la délégation aux droits des femmes et à l'égalité des chances entre les hommes et les femmes depuis 2000. Il a été désigné comme membre titulaire du Conseil de surveillance de la Caisse nationale des allocations familiales depuis 2002. Il est membre de Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés depuis août 2002.

Jean-Marc Dinant has worked as computer scientist at the Belgian Data Protection Authority between 1993 and 1998. Since 1998, he has been a computer expert in the so called Internet Task Force of the Art 29 working party and has contributed to many recommandations. He has also been a technical data protection expert for various other institutions like the European Commission, the Council of Europe or the Belgian Senate, in the framework of the Echelon network.

Astrid Epiney is professor for European law, international law and Swiss public law at the University of Freibourg i.Ue. and managing director of the Institute for European Law at the Universities of Bern, Neuchâtel and Freiburg i.Ue. In addition she is president of the Cantonal Supervisory Body for Data Protection (Freiburg i. Ue.). Before her position at the University of Freiburg, she was employed as a scientific assistant at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Public Administration (IDHEAP), Lausanne, in the field of European and Swiss environmental politics and European law. Ms Epiney is a trained church musician. After activities as an organist and choir mistress in Mainz, Lausanne and Fribourg, she managed a variety of further educational events for juveniles and young adults at the "Jeunesse étudiante chrétienne suisse et vaudoise". She then studied law at the Universities of Mainz and Lausanne and earned her doctorate at the University of Mainz. She completed her post-graduate studies at the European University Institute in Florence with a degree in the comparative study of European and international law (LL.M.). She gained her postdoctoral lecture qualification at the University of Mainz.

Gus Hosein is a Senior Fellow at Privacy International where he directs the 'Terrorism and the Open Society' programme. At PI he also co-ordinates the Policy Laundering Project in association with the American Civil Liberties Union and Statewatch. He is a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics where he lectures on courses on data protection and the Information Society. He holds a PhD from the LSE and a B.Math from the University of Waterloo in Canada. For more information please see http://personal.lse.ac.uk/hosein and http://www.privacyinternational.org/terrorism

Mrs. Sigrún Jóhannesdóttir was born on 8 August 1959 in Kópavogur, Iceland. She graduated from the University of Iceland law faculty in 1985.

1976 appointed as a senior official for life in the Federal State of Lower Saxony, Germany. Experience in diverse functions. To underline: 1980 — 1985 Deputy Police Commissioner, 1985 — 1991 section leader in the Ministry of the Interior. 1991 appointed to reconstruct the public administration in the Federal State of Saxony-Anhalt as head of department in the Ministry of the Interior.

John Karat is an internationally recognized researcher in the field of human-computer interaction. Over his 23 year career with IBM Research he has worked on the development of guidelines and principles for user interface design, speech-based systems, electronic medical record systems, and is currently carrying out research in usable privacy and security technology. John has published over 70 articles in professional and technical journals. He is co-editor-in-chief of the Kluwer book series on human-computer interaction, and is past chair of the International Federation for Information Processing Technical Committee on Human-Computer Interaction (IFIP TC13).

Mark Keddie works for BP plc as a Compliance Manager. He covers electronic regulation and has responsibility for privacy & data protection management throughout the scope of BP's operations worldwide in addition to managing relationships with regulatory authorities and professional bodies.

He was State Secretary for Internal Affairs between 1994 and 1998 and in particular was responsible for developing the Large Cities Policy.

Gabriela Krader, LL.M

Dr Susanne Lace is a Senior Policy Officer at the UK's National Consumer Council (NCC). The NCC is a not-for-profit research and policy organisation. She leads the NCC's work on information issues and recently edited a book called "The Glass Consumer: Life in a surveillance society". Susanne is a member of the European Consumer Law Group and a member of the editorial boards of the Yearbook of Consumer Law and the Journal of Consumer Behaviour. Prior to joining the NCC in 2001, she worked as a lawyer, researcher and academic at several institutions in the UK and Germany, including the law firm Addleshaw Goddard, the Institute for the Study of the Legal Profession at Sheffield University and the Max-Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg.

Date of Birth: 16.9.1953, Milan

Ariane Mole is one of the leading lawyers in personal data protection law in France and across Europe.

Claudia Mund holds the position of a Legal Adviser at the Swiss Federal Data Protection Commissioner (SDPC), where she is primarily concerned with human genetics and related data protection issues.

Before joining the Department of Homeland Security, O'Connor Kelly served as Chief Privacy Officer for the U.S. Department of Commerce. While at Commerce, O'Connor Kelly also served as Chief Counsel for Technology, and as Deputy Director of the Office of Policy and Strategic Planning.

Thomas Pletscher has been a Member of the Executive Board of economiesuisse, the Swiss Business Federation since 1988. As head of the legal and competition department at economiesuisse, his main areas of personal responsibility include general legal issues, competition policy, corporate governance, financial market regulations, information society and security policy. Further responsibilities include bilateral economic relations to North America, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and Oceania as well as to sub-Saharan Africa incl. South Africa.

Yves POULLET, Ph.D. in Law and graduated in Philosophy, is professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Namur and Liège, Belgium (FUNDP & Ulg), Dean of the Faculty of Law in Namur.

Joel R. Reidenberg is Professor of Law at Fordham University in New York. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and holds the Juris Doctor degree from Columbia University and the Doctorat en droit from the Universite de Paris-Sorbonne. He has held appointments as a visiting professor at the Université de Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne) , at the Université de Paris V (René Descartes) and at AT &T Laboratories - Public Policy Research . Professor Reidenberg is an expert in information law and policy with extensive publications on data protection issues ( http://reidenberg.home.sprynet.com/Publications.html). He has served as a privacy expert for the US Congress, the US Federal Trade Commission, the European Commission and various other government organizations. Professor Reidenberg has also chaired the Section on Defamation and Privacy of the Association of American Law Schools (the academic society for American law professors) and is a former chair of the association's Section on Law and Computers. He is admitted to practice law at the Bars of New York and the District of Columbia.

Dr. Peter Schaar, born in Berlin 1954.

Barry Steinhardt served as Associate Director of the American Civil Liberties Union between 1992 and 2002. In 2002, he was named as the inaugural Director of the ACLU's Program on Technology and Liberty. He was chair of the 2003 Computer Freedom and Privacy Conference (CFP. A member of the International Advisory Committee to Privacy International, Steinhardt has co-founded several international initiatives to protect privacy and free speech on the globalized world including the recently formed Policy Laundering.org. He is a member of the US Department of Transportation Advisory Committee conducting a negotiated rule making on Federal Standards for Drivers Licenses. He is a member of the US Census Decennial Advisory Committee and was a member of the Blue Ribbon Panel on Genetics of the National Conference of State Legislatures. He also was selected to be a member of the US delegation to the G-8 Government and Private Sector Tokyo conference on Cyber Crime.

Peter P. Swire is Professor of Law and John Glenn Scholar of Public Policy Research at the Moritz College of Law of the Ohio State University. From 1999 to early 2001 he served as the Clinton Administration's Chief Counselor for Privacy, in the U.S. Office of Management and Budget. In that position, he coordinated Administration policy on the use of personal information in the public and private sectors, and served as point of contact with privacy and data protection officials in other countries.

Richard Thomas took up appointment as the Information Commissioner on 30 November 2002. He has independent status, reporting directly to Parliament, with responsibility for enforcing the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and Data Protection Act 1998. His previous career has included: - Director of Public Policy at Clifford Chance (the international law firm); - Director of Consumer Affairs at the Office of Fair Trading; - Head of Public Affairs and Legal Officer at the National Consumer Council; - Solicitor with the Citizens Advice Bureau Service. He has also previously held various public appointments, including membership of the Lord Chancellor's Civil Justice Review Advisory Committee and the Board of the Financial Ombudsman Service.

Chief Privacy Officer, IMS Health

Seit 1999 Regierungsrat des Kantons Zug (Vorsteher der Sicherheitsdirektion, früher: Justiz- und Polizeidirektion).

Directrice Adjointe, Division des questions juridiques générales, Organisation des Nations Unies

Dr. Armgard von Reden is Chief Privacy Officer for IBM Europe Middle East and Africa. Prior to this position she held various manager positions in IBM Europe and IBM Germany, dealing with Public Affairs in IBMs Brussels office, Communications, Direct Marketing and the Press. She served as Head of the Communication Department for the President of the German Bundestag (Parliament) for three years, was a freelance journalist in the United States for German Newspapers and the London Economist, taught at Georgetown University in Washington DC, and worked as a Legislative Assistant in the US Congress for a year. She holds a M.A. and a Ph.D. from Goettingen University in Politics, Sociology and History.

Dr. Thilo Weichert, MA in political science and jurist, studied in Freiburg/Germany and Geneva/Switzerland, 1984 Member of the Parliament of the German State of Baden-Württemberg, professional activities as lawyer, university lecturer, publicist in law, privacy and political home affairs, from 1990 to 2004 President of the German Association for Privacy Protection (Deutsche Vereinigung für Datenschutz e.V.), 1991 legal counsel of the Parliament of Saxony, 1992 department head at the Privacy Commissioner of Lower Saxony, 1998 and since 2004 Privacy Commissioner of Schleswig-Holstein/Chief of the Independent Centre for Privacy Protection Schleswig-Holstein. More than 200 publications on various aspects of privacy.