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)UDQFLV�$OGKRXVH joined the Information Commissioner’s Office in mid-March 1985 from Surrey County Council, where he was an Assistant County Clerk. Mr Aldhouse graduated in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University and, in addition to being a Solicitor, holds an MSc in Management Studies. He has directed the registration, administration, complaints, publicity and strategic policy functions for the Commissioner. He now directs the office’s Change Programme and leads on data protection policy

development particularly at European and international levels. He is also the Chairman of the European Customs Information System Joint Supervisory Authority. 3DXO�$OH[DQGHU is the Head of International Communications Policy for the Department of Trade and Industry of the United Kingdom. Mr. Alexander is responsible for policy issues in key international markets, and those arising in the multilateral context such as for the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the OECD, and the WTO. He handles development and digital opportunity issues including DTI input to the World Summit on the Information Society, international satellite regulatory policy, and bilateral relations with the Americas, Africa, and Australasia. Mr. Alexander has experience with Trade Policy with the U.S., Canada, Asia Pacific and Australasia, including bilateral relations, WTO disputes, WTO New Round issues, trade mechanisms of the EU and U.S., business and other dialogues. He has worked on establishing a West London Learning Hub and had managing Information Society initiatives. Mr. Alexander also established a GBP 9 million regeneration partnership including an IT Learning Centre initiative, as well as training programmes for unemployed and excluded groups, lifelong learning initiatives, and European funding proposals. He served as a liaison with the business community, and worked on business and environment initiatives. Mr. Alexander has a background in economic development, inward investment, corporate policy, internal management consultancy, education, social services, planning and development proposals.

-RVHSK�+��$OKDGHII is the Vice President for Global Public Policy and Chief Privacy Officer for Oracle Corporation, the world's leading supplier of information management software. Mr. Alhadeff is responsible for coordinating and managing Oracle's global electronic commerce, privacy and Internet -related policy issues. Mr. Alhadeff joined Oracle from the U.S. Council for International Business (USCIB) in New York where he was General Counsel and Vice President for Electronic Commerce. At USCIB, he was responsible for the

development and coordination of all USCIB electronic business-related initiatives. Mr. Alhadeff serves as the Vice Chair of the Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Mr. Alhadeff holds an M.B.A. in Management and Information Systems from New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, a J.D. from Boston University School of Law, and a B.A. from Oberlin College.�

=DNL�$]PL�is a Partner with the law firm, M/s Rashid & Lee. He is a Barrister-at-Law from Lincoln's Inn and was called to the English Bar in 1969. Upon returning to Malaysia, Tan Sri Datuk Zaki served the Government of Malaysia as the Senior Federal Council with the Ministry of Home Affairs from 1976 to 1984, as the Federal Council in the Drafting Division of the Attorney General's Chamber from 1973 to 1976, as President of the Sessions Court from 1971 to 1973, and as Magistrate in Kuala Lumpur from 1970 to 1971. He subsequently

left public service and was admitted as an Advocate Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya on 28 December 1983. Thereafter he joined Messrs. Rashid & Lee as a Partner in January 1985. Due to extensive exp-erience, Tan Sri Datuk Zaki was appointed as a Commission Member of the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission in 1999. In addition, Tan Sri Datuk Zaki holds directorships in several companies, including a few companies listed on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange. He is also an Arbitrator for the Kuala Lumpur Commodity Exchange (KLCE).

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5LFKDUG�&��%HDLUG�is currently Senior Deputy United States Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy in the Department of State. Mr. Beaird came to the Department of State from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), Department of Commerce, where he served as Associate Administrator for Inter-national Affairs. Mr. Beaird has extensive experience in international telecommunication policy matters involving multilateral and bilateral forums. In his current position, he

manages the State Department’s activities across a broad range of international telecommunications and information policy issues, including those arising in the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC). Mr. Beaird was founder and long-standing Chairman of the Working Group on Tele-communications within the APEC process, which involves 21 Pacific basin economies. Mr. Beaird is a former chairman of the OECD’s Committee for Information, Computer and Communications Policy (ICCP). He serves as the United States’ representative to the ITU’s Council, which is the governing body of the ITU between Plenipotentiaries. Mr. Beaird served the Chairman of the 2002 session of the ITU Council, the first time the U.S. has been elected to that position. Mr. Beaird served as Chairman of the U.S. delegation to the World Radio communications Conference in 1993, and he has served as Vice-Chairman of the U.S. delegation to the 1994, 1998, and 2002 ITU Plenipotentiary Conferences. He has also served as Vice-Chairman of U.S. delegations to the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization (INTELSAT) Assembly of Parties. Mr. Beaird has led numerous bilateral negotiations with countries in Asia and Europe leading to more liberalized uses of international private leased circuits. Mr. Beaird has received awards from the Departments of State and Commerce for distinguished service. He entered government service from the private sector where he held positions with the Corporate and Strategic Planning Groups of AT&T. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado.�

6LWHVK�%KRMDQL was reappointed for a further four-year term commencing on 10 November 1999 as a full time Commissioner of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commis-sion. His original appointment was in November 1995 when the ACCC was created. From 1992 until Mr Bhojani’s appointment to the Commission, he was a barrister with a general commercial and civil litigation practice at the independent Bar in Western Australia. He has also held the positions of Associate Commissioner of the Trade Practices Commission and

Deputy Chairman of the Law Council of Australia, Business Law Section's trade practices committee. From 1986 to 1992, he was a barrister and solicitor with the Commonwealth Attorney-General's Depart-ment, Perth office and the Trade Practices unit of the Australian Government Solicitor. In June 1991 and subsequently in June 1994, Mr Bhojani completed the Negotiation Workshop and the Advanced Nego-tiation Workshop, respectively, at the Program of Instruction for Lawyers at Harvard Law School, Harvard University. He holds a Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Laws from Monash University. In 1986, he was admitted as barrister and solicitor in Victoria and Western Australia. He has tutored in trade practices law at the University of Western Australia. Mr Bhojani’s responsibilities on the Commission include its enforcement activities (as Chair of the ACCC’s Enforcement Committee), the Professions and the Health Sector. He regularly represents the Commission in negotiations and mediation of ACCC litigation. Mr. Bhojani also holds the Presidency for 2002 – 2003 of the International Marketing Supervision Network (IMSN) an association of international consumer protection enforcement agencies from over 30 countries.

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*LOOHV�%UpJDQW is Secretary General of the Mission for Digital Economy in the French Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry. This task force has been set up in March 2001 to promote e-government within the Ministry and define public policies to support growth through adequate use of ICT across the French economy. Prior to this position, Gilles Brégant was head of the sub-directorate for ICT programmes and prospectives, within the general directorate for industry in the same ministry. He previously held several positions for France Telecom, as an expert in telecommunication regulation and as manager of

electronic directories. He began his career as a researcher and project leader in the field of intelligent networks, distributed software and next generation network architectures. He holds degrees from Ecole Polytechnique (1986) and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (1988).

$QGUHD�&DPDQ]L holds a Degree in Economics from the University of Bologna. His career includes Senior Management of the Olivetti Group, where he was the Group’s Senior Vice President for Central and Eastern Europe, and subsequently, until 1999, Senior Vice President for Legal, Institutional and Regulatory Affairs. Since 1999 Mr. Camanzi has been Telecom Italia’s Group Senior Vice President for Public and Economic Affairs. He was appointed on September 10, 2002 Chairman of the Paris-based Information, Communication

and Computer Policy Group for the OECD’s Business and Industry Advisory Committee.� -HIIUH\�$��&DPSEHOO is the Senior Technology Policy Counsel of Worldwide Government Affairs for Cisco Systems, Inc., the global leader for networking for the Internet. Since 2001, he has been responsible for developing and implementing Cisco’s worldwide public policy agenda with respect to telecom-munications and technology issues. In addition to his expertise in telecommunications regulation, Mr. Campbell has experience in the intersection of copyright law and information technology. Prior to this position at Cisco, Mr. Campbell headed the Washington government affairs office of Compaq Computer. Mr. Campbell began his career as a telecommunications regulatory attorney with the Washington, D.C. office of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey. Mr. Campbell received his B.A. in History from Yale University and his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.

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.DUHQ�&RUEHWW�6DQGHUV is the Vice President for International Public Policy and Regulatory Affairs for Verizon. In this capacity she has responsibility for ensuring that developments in international public policy and government relations positively impact Verizon’s existing and developing businesses; working with the international business units to develop and implement public policy and regulatory strategy which optimizes our investments and maximizes shareholder value; and advocacy within international forums. Prior to assuming

responsibility for international public policy and regulatory affairs, Ms. Corbett Sanders was Bell Atlantic’s Regional Director International Regulatory Affairs – Europe. In this capacity she was res-ponsible for monitoring, assessing and influencing the development of European policy which effects the success of BA’s investments in Europe. She was also responsible for coordinating the regulatory activities of each of BA’s investments in the region. Ms. Corbett Sanders relocated to the Washington area in July 1999 after 10 years in Europe. During her tenure in Europe she was the Chair of the Information, Com-munications, Telecommunications and Services Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce EU Committee, founder of the European Competitive Carriers Organization and a member of the regulatory steering committee of the European Association of Directory Publishers. Ms. Corbett Sanders was a frequent guest lecturer on European Regulatory Policy at the Boston University Brussels and the Brooking Institute in Washington, D.C. She is a member of the board of directors of Gibraltar NYNEX Com-munications. Prior to joining Bell Atlantic, Ms. Corbett Sanders was with Booz Allen & Hamilton’s Strategic Gaming and Communications Policy Practice supporting government and corporate clients in the area of program planning and external affairs. Her primary government clients included the Strategic Defense Initiative, the National Secuirty Council, and DARPA. Ms. Corbett Sanders has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Notre Dame and a Masters of Science in International Management from Boston University Brussels.� 0DUWLQ�&URQHQEHUJ, Deputy Director-General for Information Society Policy, Federal Ministry of Economics and Labour, Germany� Biography not available at the time of printing. %LQJ[LQJ�)DQJ, Director, National Computer Network and Information Security Administrative Centre, China� Biography not available at the time of printing.

3HWHU�)HUJXVRQ is Director, Electronic Commerce Policy, the Electronic Commerce Branch of Industry Canada. The Branch is responsible for maintaining Canada’s leading role in electronic commerce policy development, for accelerating the adoption and use of e-commerce by the private sector and for strengthening the related research and innovation agenda in Canada. Mr. Ferguson is responsible for coordinating the development of domestic policy positions on a variety of issues linked to the policy and legal framework in Canada,

such as the implementation of the 3HUVRQDO�,QIRUPDWLRQ�3URWHFWLRQ�DQG�(OHFWURQLF�'RFXPHQWV�$FW, the use of electronic signatures and the development of authentication services and security matters affecting the e-business environment. He also participates in the development of negotiating positions related to issues under discussion in international fora. He is is co-chair, with China of he APEC Electronic Commerce Steering Group and has been Head of the Canadian delegation to the APEC TEL for a number of years. He represents Canada on the Working Party on Information Security and Privacy at the OECD. He also participates in bilateral initiatives providing advice on electronic commerce issues and related policy development. Peter is a graduate of Mount Allison University in New Brunswick, Canada.

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$QQD�)LHOGHU is the Director of the Office for Developed and Transition Economies (ODTE) of Consumers International. As one of the four regional directors, she is responsible for the development and implementation of the organisation’s work principally in Europe, Middle East and North America. Her office has initiated important international research policy projects in the area of electronic commerce and sustainable consumption, set up the secretariat and process of the Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue, and is carrying out large-

scale development programmes in Eastern Europe. In the last four years ODTE has co-ordinated, researched and published major international reports covering online B2C transactions (Consumers@Shopping and Should I Buy), online privacy (Privacy@net), online alternative dispute resolution (Disputes in Cyberspace) and trustworthiness of information sites (Credibility on the Web). It has also been part of the OECD working group that developed the Guidelines for Consumer Protection in Electronic Commerce, published in late 1999. The Office also represents consumer interest in other international forums discussing information society and e-commerce issues.

3HWHU�)RUG is the First Assistant Secretary, Information and Security Law Division of the Australian Attorney-General’s Department. The Division was formed in February, 1997 and is responsible for policy relating to privacy, freedom of information, intellectual property, legal aspects of electronic commerce and support to the Attorney-General on national security and electronic surveillance aspects of law enforcement policy. He also chairs the OECD Working Party on Information Security and Privacy.

-DQ�*HVVLQ has been involved in electronic commerce since the 1980s, as EDI Development Manager for Pacific Bell (California), Executive Officer of Electronic Commerce Australia (ECA), and for the past seven years as Senior Research Consultant for AOEMA (Asia Oceania Electronic Marketplace Association). An active participant in the APEC Telecom-munications Working Group since 1991, Ms.Gessin’s primary focus is on the specific needs and concerns of small business and micro enterprises in understanding and adopting the

technologies of the future. Graduate study (Masters Degree and pending PhD specializing in statistics and research methodology) at Syracuse University (New York) and author of a series of computer books published by McGraw Hill. �

0D\RU�-HUHP\�+DUULV was elected in a September 1994 Special Election and was re-elected in November 1996 and again for a second full term in September 2000. Mayor Harris is the founder and chair of the “Mayors’ Asia-Pacific Environmental Summit” first held in Hono-lulu in February 1999. Attended by 400 leaders from 19 countries and 118 cities in the Asia-Pacific region, the Summit was heralded as a milestone in Asia-Pacific environmental affairs with delegates voting to establish a permanent Secretariat in Honolulu for bi-annual

conferences. The second “Mayors’ Asia-Pacific Environmental Summit” was held in conjunction with the Asian Development Bank Conference in May 2001, and the third was held in May 2002. To further the City’s goals of positioning Honolulu as an Asia-Pacific centre for technology and infrastructure develop-ment, Harris established the “Pacific Islands Environmental Symposium” and the historic “China-U.S. Conference of Mayors and Business Leaders”. He also established the Asia Pacific Urban Technology Institute and has served as the American National Chairman for the “Japan-American Conference of Mayors and Chamber of Commerce Presidents” since 1996.�

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&KL�'RQJ�.LP�is a Director of the Ministry of Information and Communications of Korea. He has been in charge of the Broadband Network Division from January of 2001. He was a Director of the Industrial Technology Division from 1999 to 2001. He also worked in the Communications Commission from 1997 to 1999. Chi-Dong Kim earned his Bachelor of Communication Engineering from the Aviation College of Korea in 1981. As Director of the Broadband Network Division. He completed the Third Master Plan for Informatizion Infrastructure of Korea (2002-2005).

$QGUH\�9��.RURWNRY was born in 1954 in Sevastopol. Graduated from the Philological Department of the Kazakh University, Foreign Languages Pedagogical Institute and did a post-graduate course at the Moscow State University. Specialist in structural linguistics and semiotics. Academician of the International Communications Academy. In March 2002 Mr. Korotkov was appointed First Deputy Minister for Communications and Informatization of the Russian Federation. In 1996-2002 he worked in the Russian Federation Government

Administration. Head of Department for Government Information. He worked as an ITAR-TASS cor-respondent in Moscow and many CIS countries. His reports were published in Russian and foreign illustrated magazines. He is a member of the UN ICT Task Force. He takes part in the UN ICT Task Force activities related to the information security and communication technologies. His scientific interests spread to theory of information community, theory of administration, information and semiotics. His hobbies are photography and design. $XJXVW�.RZHUR is an Electronic Engineer, holding a Masters of Science from US Telecommunications Engineering and a Bachelor of Engineering from the U.K. He is the Tanzanian National ICT Coordinator and heads the Posts and Telecommunications Desk at the Ministry of Communications & Transport. He is a member of the Engineering Registration Board and assists in preparation & moderation of National Registration examinations. He has wide knowledge on Regulation and Frequency Management. Mr. Kowero is the former Commissioner of the Tanzania Communications Commission, which is the oldest such body in sub-Saharan Africa. He worked for more than 15 years in Weather and Aviation bodies in Engineering Division. He is currently interested in practical applications of ICTs in developing countries.

0DUNXV�.XPPHU is a career diplomat who has been in his present position as H(QYR\ of the Swiss Foreign Ministry in Berne since April 2002. His main tasks include foreign policy co-ordination with regard to information and communication technologies in general and the World Summit on the Information Society in particular. From 1998 to 2002 he served as Head of Unit in the Secretariat of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) where he was responsible for relations with countries outside the European Union. He was thus

involved in negotiations on free trade agreements with, among others, Singapore, Mexico, Canada, Jordan, Croatia and Macedonia. In 1998 he had a special assignment with the Swiss Mission in Geneva as co-ordinator for the organization of the Second Session of the WTO Ministerial Conference. During a previous posting at the same Mission, between 1993 and 1996, he was in charge of matters related to UNCTAD and the International Trade Center (UNCTAD/WTO). Mr. Kummer served as Deputy Head of Mission in Ankara (1996-1998) and Oslo (1989-1993). He was also posted in Vienna (1984-1989), Bern (1981-1984) and Lisbon (1980-1981). Before joining the Foreign Ministry in 1979 he worked as a journalist for Swiss Radio International. Mr. Kummer holds a masters degree in French and Italian literature from the University of Berne. He is married and has two grown-up children.

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%UXQR�/DPERUJKLQL began his career as a consultant and journalist and afterwards joined Olivetti where he reached managerial responsibilities as Chief Economist, Head of European Affairs, Vice President of Corporate Strategy and member of the Executive Committee. In June 1996 he was nominated Vice-Chairman of Olivetti Telemedia, the Olivetti’s holding in the area of telecommunications and Board Member of Infostrada and Omnitel, the Olivetti telecommunications operating companies. In October 1996 he joined the Olivetti Board of

Directors and in May 1997 was elected Chairman of Olivetti Lexikon (in 2001 renamed Olivetti Tecnost), the Olivetti operating company in the area of office automation. In April 1990 he was appointed President of EUROBIT (European Association of Manufacturers of Business Machines and Information Technology Industry) and reelected in 1993 and 1996 (until 1999). In 2000 he has been elected Member of the Board of EICTA (European Information Technology Industry Association, created through the merge of Eurobit and Ectel). Since its foundation, he is Chairman-Editor of the EITO, the European Information Technology Observatory, a European consortium created in 1993 with the scope of publishing the EITO Report, the most extensive overview of the European market for information and communication technologies. In 1999 he has been elected Chairman of the OECD BIAC MNES Committee and in 2001 Chairman of BIAC (Business Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD). An author of books and articles and a lecturer on Industrial Economics in various Italian Universities (Turin, Bologna and Milan), since 1994-95 he has been a professor of the first course held in Italy on Information Society and a professor of Business Administration and Marketing Strategy at the Catholic University in Milan.

6WHSKHQ�.�0��/DX is the Chairman of EDS Hong Kong. He oversees EDS’ sales, service delivery and client relationships in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Before accepting this assignment, Mr. Lau was the first Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data for Hong Kong with responsibility to promote and enforce compliance with The Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance, which was enacted to provide adequate protection for the use of an individual’s personal data in both the public and private sectors. Mr. Lau has 30 years' experience in the

information technology and banking industries in both the government and private sectors. He has had a long and distinguished career, having held a variety of positions with EDS, International Computer Limited, Citicorp and the Hong Kong Government, where he was head of the Government Data Processing Agency. In 1984, Mr. Lau was awarded the Member of the British Empire (MBE) for his outstanding service to the Hong Kong Government and the community in the area of information technology. In 1986, he was made a Fellow of the Hong Kong Computer Society. In 1997, Mr. Lau was appointed to serve as a member of the Hospital Authority and in 1999 as the Chairman of the Hospital Governing Committee of the North District Hospital. In June 2001, he was made a Justice of the Peace. Mr. Lau has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Manchester in England, a master’s from London University, and has completed a senior executive program at the Harvard Business School.� $UWKXU�/HYLQ is Chief, Coordination, External Relations and Communications, with the ITU. His responsibilities include serving as Executive Secretary of the Plenipotentiary Conference, Council and Coordination Committee of the Union. At the same time, he serves as Deputy Executive Director of the Executive Secretariat for the World Summit on the Information Society. He was formerly a senior policy adviser and legal officer with the ITU. He also holds an appointment as an adjunct professor of law at the Franklin Pierce Law Center in the United States, where he teaches a course on International Telecom-munications Law and the Internet. He previously served as Legal Adviser of the OECD in Paris and as a senior attorney with regulatory agencies in the United States. He has published numerous articles and books on regulatory topics.�

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=KRQJ]KRX�/L is the Acting Director of Division for Service Infrastructure for Development and Trade Efficiency of UNCTAD. He received his Bachelors in Economics from the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing, China. Mr. Li has served as a trade diplomat since 1965. From 1979 to 1987 he was the Economic Affairs Officer of UNCTAD, involved in research on restrictive business practices and developments in the multilateral trading system. From 1987 to 1998 he was in service of the Government of the

People’s Republic of China as a principal negotiator for the Uruguay Round and accession to the GATT/WTO as bilateral technical cooperation with developed donor countries. In 1999 Mr. Li returned to UNCTAD as Head of the Electronic Commerce Branch and Deputy Director, now Acting Director of the Division for Service Infrastructure for Development and Trade Efficiency, and a member of the UN ICT Taskforce and World Summit on the Information Society.�

*RYHUQRU�/LQGD�/LQJOH,�the first female executive of the State of Hawaii was elected in November 2002. She founded the 0RORNDL�)UHH�3UHVV�more than 20 years ago, straight out of journalism school. But reporting the news wasn’t enough, and she turned to politics, in order to make a positive impact on the community. She was elected to the Maui County Council in 1980 and served three terms before being elected mayor of Maui, once in 1990 and again in 1994. Not only was she the first woman and the youngest, non-Maui person to serve as

mayor, but she changed the county's budgeting system from a line-item to a performance-based system. For the first time, the public was able to track how their tax dollars were being spent. Under her leadership, Maui county streamlined its permit process, making it more user-friendly for businesses and government. At the same time, Maui increased its promotional and marketing budget tenfold. &RQGH�1DVWH magazine recognised this and called Maui “Best Island in the World.” She was elected Governor in 2002.�

&ODXGLD� /RHEEHFNH� holds the Chair of Media Management and is Director of the Department of Media Management at the University of Cologne. She is also the elected Director of the University's Media Science Center. For 2001-2003, she has been elected by the global 'Association of Information Systems (AIS)' as Council Member representing Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Previously, she held the KRAK Chair of Electronic Commerce - the first of its kind in Europe - at the Copenhagen Business School. She also

worked at MIT (Cambridge, MA), INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France), Erasmus University (Rotterdam, Netherlands), McKinsey & Co. (Germany), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), and the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia). Claudia Loebbecke has written over 100 internationally peer-reviewed papers on the topics of strategic information systems, e-business, knowledge management and media management. She regularly offers key note speeches at industry gatherings and academics events, and has received three awards for case studies in the area of Technology Management from the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD). Claudia Loebbecke received a Ph.D. (1995) in Business Administration from the University of Cologne, Germany, an M.B.A. (1991) from Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA and was granted Fulbright and DAAD scholarships in 1986/87 and 1990/91 respectively.�

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6��0DKDOLQJDP is Executive Vice President of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), the largest Indian information technology consulting organisation employing 22,000 consulting professionals and providing services to customers across the globe. Mr. Mahalingam, by qualification a Chartered Accountant, has been with TCS since 1970 and has been an important member of the management team which planned and oversaw the phenomenally successful growth of the company over the years. TCS is the pioneering organisation which

put India on the global Information Technology map. In the early stages of internationalisation of TCS, Mr. Mahalingam has looked after its London and New York Offices. As part of his current responsibilities, Mr. Mahalingam looks after the Human Resources and the Education functions at TCS. In this capacity, he gets involved in activities such as setting up relationships with academic institutions for educating the consult-ants at TCS, building up of professionals in TCS to serve the organisation’s current and future needs and in creating a high performance organisation. Mr. Mahalingam was the Chairman of the Southern Region of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) last year. He is currently the Chairman of the Higher Education Committee of CII at the national level. He is also a fellow of Computer Society of India and of the Institute of Management Consultants of India. He has been in Task Forces set up by the Government.�

(LML 0DNLJXFKL�is Director of Multilateral Economic Affairs Office at the Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications (MPHPT) of Japan. He is responsible for the relations with various international organizations including OECD, APEC and WTO with regard to information and telecommunication issues. He is the convenor of Business Facilitation Steering Group of APEC Telecommunications and Information Working Group, where the policies and projects for the facilitation of e-commerce and e-

government with in the Asia and Pacific region are discussed and implemented. He is also involved in the WTO Doha Development Agenda’s service negotiations in Geneva. Mr. Makiguchi was educated at the University of Tokyo and Yale University.�

-RKQ�*��0DOFROP is currently a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice. An honors graduate of Columbia College and Harvard Law School, Mr. Malcolm served as a law clerk to judges on both the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia and the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. For seven years, Mr. Malcolm was an Assistant United States Attorney in Atlanta, where he was assigned to the fraud and public corruption section. While an AUSA, Mr. Malcolm received

numerous awards, including the Director’s Award for Superior Performance by an AUSA. Mr. Malcolm also served as an Associate Independent Counsel in Washington, D.C. investigating fraud and abuse at HUD. Prior to rejoining the Department of Justice this year, Mr. Malcolm was a partner at the Atlanta law firm of Malcolm & Schroeder, L.L.P.�

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+DUROG�6��0DVXPRWR is the Executive Director of the Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii (RCUH) [since 10/94] and President and Chief Executive Officer of the Pacific International Center for High Technology Research (PICHTR) [since 7/01]. RCUH is a state agency, created by the Legislature in 1965, for the purpose of supporting sponsored research programs of the University of Hawaii (the State’s public higher education system) and enhancing research, development, and training generally in the State of Hawaii. �

PICHTR is an independent, not-for-profit, applied research and development center incorporated in Hawaii, chartered to promote and develop technology appropriate to the marine and tropical environments of the Asia-Pacific region and to assist, facilitate and support its application through technical services, education, and training. His prior positions included serving under former Governor John Waihee’s administration [1987-94] as the Director of the Office of State Planning, Acting Chairman of the State Public Utilities Commission, and Special Assistant to the Governor; University of Hawaii Vice President for Administration/director of Administration [1975-86]; University of Hawaii Community Colleges Budget and Fiscal Officer [1970-75]; and various other positions at the University of Hawaii and the Hawaii State Legislature. Mr. Masumoto received his B.A. and M.A. degrees in Political Science from the University of Hawaii and his J.D. degree from the National Law Center of George Washington University.�

7DND\XNL�0DWVXR, who is Japanese, has been OECD Director for Science, Technology and Industry since 21 August 2001. Prior to this appointment, Mr. Matsuo held the post of Director of Europe, Middle East and Africa Division in the Trade Policy Bureau of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) in Tokyo, dealing with trade and investment policies, global business environment matters and international economic relations. After obtaining a degree in Economics from the University of Tokyo, he joined �

METI in 1979 where he held a variety of posts at Deputy Director level in the International Trade Policy Bureau, the Small and Medium Enterprise Agency, the Basic Industries Bureau (the Iron and Steel Administration Division), the Minister’s Secretariat (the Policy Planning Office) and the Agency of Natural Resources and Energy. He carried out research on technological innovation policies, particularly the university-industry collaboration and business start-ups in the Silicon Valley, at Stanford University from 1984 until 1985. In 1991, he was appointed Director for Recycling Policy of the Industrial Location and Environmental Policy Bureau. From 1992 until 1995, he worked for the Trade Directorate of the OECD. Returning to Tokyo, he became Director of the Commercial Affairs Division of the Industrial Policy Bureau and the Japanese Representative to the International Bureau of Exposition. From 1997 until 1999, he worked as Director-General of Commerce, Industry, Tourism and Labor Department of the Kagoshima Prefectural Government. As Director of Business Start-up and Alliance Promotion Division of the Small and Medium Enterprise Agency, he engaged in the reconstruction of overall Japanese policies for small and medium enterprises until 2000. Mr. Matsuo was born in 1956. He is married and has three sons.�

$PEDVVDGRU�3LDPVDN�0LOLQWDFKLQGD is the Eleventh Executive Director of the APEC Secretariat on 1 January 2003 to coincide with the official beginning of the APEC year hosted by the Kingdom of Thailand. Ambassador Piamsak was born in 1950 in Bangkok, Thailand and he was educated at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand and Wayne State University in the USA. Ambassador Piamsak has served in the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 1977. During his career Ambassador Piamsak has served the Kingdom of

Thailand on numerous international postings including posting to Singapore, New York and Geneva. Ambassador Piamsak has extensive experience in international trade issues and served as the Deputy Permanent Representative for the Thailand Mission to the World Trade Organization from 1995 to 1998. Returning to Thailand after his posting to the WTO, Ambassador Piamsak served as the Deputy Director-General of the Department of ASEAN Affairs and then as the Deputy Director-General of Department of European Affairs at the Thailand Ministry of Foreign Affairs before being appointed. For the 2002 Mexico APEC year, Ambassador Piamsak served as the Deputy Executive Director of the APEC Secretariat.�

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.L\RVKL�0RUL is Director-General of International Affairs Department at the Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications (MPHPT) of Japan. He is comprehensively responsible for the foreign affairs of the Ministry, and he is also in charge of substantial management for the WSIS Asian regional Conference in Tokyo, 13-15 January 2003. He has successively hold prominent decision-making positions with regard to information and telecommunication issues.

5LVDEXUR�1H]X is a senior executive officer at Fujitsu Research Institute. He is responsible for various activities at the Institute in the field of ICT, science and technology and industry. He is also a board member of Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry, a research organ of the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. Before coming to FRI, he was the Director for Science, Technology and Industry of the OECD from 1995 until 2001. Prior to this, he was with the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry since

1970 and had been engaged in trade and industry policy making, including extensive negotiations with the US and EU, as well as multilateral forums such as WTO and the OECD. Mr. Nezu is an economist by education and an MBA from Harvard Business School.�

6LPER�1WLUR�is an independent management consultant based in Tanzania focused on digital opportunities and ICT and its role in Development. Prior to going independent, Simbo held senior positions in KPMG and PriceWaterhouseCoopers responsible for IT Consulting. He has over 16 years of consulting experience, primarily gained in East Africa. Simbo is a founder of Tanzania’s eThink Tank that is at the forefront of partnering with Government to shape its national ICT policy. He is also a member of Tanzania’s ICT Task Force with the

Ministry of Communications and Transport that is currently drafting the National ICT Policy in a consult-ative process. He was one of Tanzania’s representatives to the G8 Digital Opportunities Task Force and is actively involved in matters related to ICT in Tanzania. He has also published various white papers, and regularly contributes to various publications including to Tanzania’s latest ICT magazine “IT Vision.”

6WHYH�2UORZVNL is Chair of the APEC eSecurity Task Group. The Task Group is working on the security of critical information infrastructures and issues relating to the use of electronic authentication. It also oversights the work of the PKI Interoperability Expert Group. In 2000 Steve retired as Special Adviser IT Security Policy in the Information and Security Law Division of the Australian Attorney-General’s Department. His duties focused on the dev-elopment and implementation of national and international policies and strategies for the

Security of information systems including Australia’s National Information Infrastructure. He compiled the report 3URWHFWLQJ�$XVWUDOLD¶V�1DWLRQDO�,QIRUPDWLRQ�,QIUDVWUXFWXUH��Steve has represented Australia at various committees of the OECD, APEC and the United Nations dealing with IT security and electronic commerce issues. He represents the Australian Internet Industry Association on a number of committees of the Standards Association of Australia dealing with IT security and electronic commerce issues. He is now an independent IT security consultant.�

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+XJR�3DUU�is Director General at the Norwegian Ministry for Trade and Industry since 1987. Since 1998, he is responsible for the coordination of Norway’s ICT policy. He holds a doctorate in solid-state physics from 1976. His career later includes 2 years of applied research in remote sensing, 6 years as Division Head for R&D in the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy , and 4 years as a manager of laboratory services and products in the Det norske Veritas and the National Institute of Technology. Mr. Parr has a broad experience in

international cooperation. In 1993-94, he was Chairman of the High Level Group of the European EUREKA cooperation, and from 1996-99 he was Council Chairman of the European Space Agency. Since 2002, he is chairman of the OECD Committee for Information, Computer and Communications Policy. -RKQ�3DWULFN is President of Attitude LLC and former vice president of Internet technology at IBM, where he worked for thirty-five years. During his IBM career John helped start IBM's leasing business at IBM Credit Corporation, and was senior marketing executive for the launch of the IBM ThinkPad brand. Starting in the early 1990s, John dedicated his time to fostering Internet technologies. One of the leading Internet visionaries, John is quoted frequently in the global media and speaks at dozens of conferences around the world. %XVLQHVV���� named him as one of the industry's most intriguing minds, ,QGXVWU\�:HHN named him one of the top 30 people who drive innovation and provide the spark to economic growth, and 1HWZRUN�:RUOG called him one of the 25 most powerful people in networking. John was a founding mem-ber of the World Wide Web Consortium at MIT in 1994, a founding member and now the chairman of the Global Internet Project, a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and a member of the Internet Society and the ACM. He is a member of the board of Knovel Corporation and an advisor to Internet companies, including Lou Dobbs' Space.com, IntraLinks and Neoteny. He is also president of The Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra Foundation. His book, 1HW�$WWLWXGH, was released in November 2001.

9LUJLOLR�/��3HQD (Ver, for short) assumed the position of Undersecretary for Information and Communications Technology of the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) on August 1, 2002. He is also the Executive Director of the Information Technology and E-Commerce Council (ITECC), which is a government/private sector planning and advisory body chaired by the President, tasked with the development of Information and Communications Technology and the promotion of E- Commerce in the country. Prior to his

Appointment in the DOTC, he served as Presidential Assistant for Information and Communications Tech-nology along with his current position in ITECC. Mr. Pena has been in the IT industry for almost his entire professional career and was the President of IBM Philippines up to 1994. He then joined San Miguel Corporation as CIO and was instrumental in the groupwide implementation of SAP. He was moved to line operations in 1998 as President and Managing Director of San Miguel Brewing International in Hongkong. Before joining government, he was President of Transform Management Consultancy and Managing Partner of CEOs Inc. He is a graduate in Electrical Engineering from the California State Polytechnic University, the Executive Program of Columbia University, and of the Ateneo de Manila High School.

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5REHUW�*��5RJHUV is executive director of the Global Information Infrastructure Commission, a confederation of CEOs of information and communications technology firms from throughout the world who are collectively dedicated as GIIC commissioners to fostering sustained economic development in emerging market nations through the encouragement and facilitation of investment in telecommunications and advanced computing facilities. As such, he interacts with business leaders and government officials

throughout the world, and oversees collaborative initiatives with other international organizations. For 19 years prior to joining the GIIC, Mr. Rogers was an attorney and corporate government affairs practitioner in Washington, D.C., dealing with regulatory, legislative, and other public policy initiatives driving the telecommunications equipment industry. Prior to that, Mr. Rogers worked as an attorney, public affairs manager, and editor. Mr. Rogers is admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia, Delaware, and Pennsylvania. Additionally, he has served as a member of the Wilson Council of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; trustee of Public Affairs Foundation; director of the Public Affairs Council; director of the Manufacturers Alliance public affairs council; co-chair of the Federal Com-munications Bar Association legislation committee; and member of the U.S. General Services Admin-istration Business Advisory Board. With his wife, Patricia, Mr. Rogers lives in Alexandria, Virginia, and Scottsdale, Arizona.

0DUF�5RWHQEHUJ is Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in Washington, DC. He teaches information privacy law at Georgetown University Law Center and has testified before Congress on many issues, including access to information, encryption policy, computer security, and communications privacy. He has served on several national and international advisory panels, including the expert panels on Cryptography Policy and Computer Security for the OECD and the Legal Experts on Cyberspace Law for

UNESCO. He currently chairs the ABA Committee on Privacy and Information Protection. He was also named to the founding board of the Public Interest Registry, the organization that will manage the .ORG domain beginning in 2003. He is editor of The Privacy Law Sourcebook and co-editor (with Daniel J. Solove) of Information Privacy Law: Cases and Materials (Aspen Publishers 2003). He is a graduate of Harvard College and Stanford Law School. He served as Counsel to Senator Patrick J. Leahy on the Senate Judiciary Committee after graduation from law school. He established the Public Voice coalition in 1996 to promote NGO participation in decisions concerning the future of the Internet. He is the winner of the 2002 World Technology Award in Law.

0DU\�5RZOHV is the Director of Research, Communications and Campaigns for the British Columbia Government and Service Employees’ Union, a 65,000 member union representing workers in the public service, broader public sector and private sector in British Columbia, Canada. An activist in the Canadian labour movement for over 20 years, Ms Rowles has worked in public sector unions, and at the national level, was assistant to the President of the Canadian Labour Congress. Ms Rowles was a member of the Canadian delegation at the

1998 WTO meetings in Geneva and was part of the Canadian Organizing Network for the 1997 APEC People’s Summit in Vancouver. Ms Rowles is on the national board of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, a non-profit research institute and on the board of the Canada-Asia Pacific Resource Network.

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0DUFXV�6DFKV is the Director for Communication Infrastructure Protection in the White House Office of Cyberspace Security and a staff member of the President’s Critical Infrastructure Protection Board. The CIP Board was created by Presidential Executive Order in October 2001 to coordinate critical infrastructure protection issues across all US federal agencies in partnership with the industry sectors. The most significant effort undertaken by the Board is the development of the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, scheduled to be published in January 2003. The Office of Cyberspace Security is an extension of the Board into the National Security Council, focusing on development of foreign policy relating to cyberspace security, protection of national security and emergency preparedness communications infrastructures, and the coordination of national responses to cyberspace incidents. Mr. Sachs retired from the United States Army in January 2002 after serving over 20 years as a Corps of Engineers officer. He specialized during the later half of his career in computer network operations, systems automation, and information technology. His final assignment was with the Defense Department’s Joint Task Force for Computer Network Operations where he was the Senior Operations Analyst and Technical Director. Marc holds a Bachelor of Civil Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, a Master of Science in Science and Technology Commercialization from the University of Texas, and a Master of Science in Computer Science with a concentration in Information Security from James Madison University. He is a graduate of the Army’s Command and General Staff College, the Army Engineer School, the Army Signal School, and the Army’s Airborne and Air Assault schools. Marc holds an advanced class amateur radio license and the SANS GIAC Security Essentials Certification. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

5H]D�6DOLP’s professional experiences include: national and international field experience in ICT and community development research, planning, coordinating, implementing, and evaluating development programs; technical support including development of monitoring and evaluation systems, supervision, and training of community development workers and their supervisors; Knowledge, Practice, and Coverage (KPC) survey training and execution. Mr. Salim is also the initiator of an integrated rural development model project Amader

Gram (Our Villages) that is implemented in Bangladesh; He is the founder of SouthNet Knowledge Network. There has been extensive publication of his writings on ICT and development issues. Mr. Salim is a Fellow of the 21st Century Trust of United Kingdom and awarded for Knowledge Networking by the Bellanet, Canada. He is the co-founder of Bangladesh Friendship Education Society (BFES), an NGO working in the field of ICT education and knowledge promotion at the grassroots Bangladesh.

+HUZLJ�6FKO|JO is Deputy Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). He joined the OECD on 1 July 1998��His special responsibilities are Trade, Science, Technology and Industry, Territorial Development, and E-Commerce, and Agriculture. Prior to taking up his duties at OECD Mr. Schlögl was the Deputy Director General for Trade Policy in the German Ministry of Economics, Bonn. Mr. Schlögl has thirty years of government experience in trade, competition and industrial policy issues. After

studying law and economics at Marburg University, Mr. Schlögl received a Ph.D. in economics in 1969. That year, he joined the German Ministry of Economics. Four years later he joined the German-American Chamber of Commerce in New York. He returned to the Ministry of Economics in 1980. In his capacity as Deputy Director-General for Trade Policy he served also as Head of Delegation to regular bilateral economic consultations with the US, Latin American and Asian governments.

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+HDWKHU�6KDZ joined USCIB, the American affiliate of the International Chamber of Commerce, the Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD and the International Organization of Employers, in September 2000 and staffs the organization’s E-commerce, Marketing and Advertising, and Banking Committees. Ms. Shaw represents companies from a wide range of industry sectors on topics ranging from standardization of international banking procedures and liberalization of foreign advertising sectors to International treaties on cybercrime. Previously, she worked with the U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service in Washington, D.C. Ms. Shaw has a bachelor’s degree in international trade and finance from Georgetown University and a master’s degree in international economics and international relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

-RDQQD�5��6KHOWRQ�is a Senior Fellow with the Montana World Affairs Council, a nonprofit organization with 85 affiliates in the United States, dedicated to increased understanding of international affairs at a local level. She joined the Council in January 2003 and will pursue projects related to information technology and regulatory reform on an international level, as well as teach at The University of Montana on a variety of international topics. From 2000 – 2003, Ms. Shelton was affiliated with the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center (for U.S.-

Asian studies and programs) at The University of Montana, serving as Interim Director in 2002. Prior to moving to Montana, Ms. Shelton served as Deputy Secretary General of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD, 1995 – 1999), where she was responsible for overall management and budget matters, as well as the OECD’s work in a wide range of substantive areas, including electronic commerce, international trade and investment, fiscal affairs and agriculture. She conceptualized and led the OECD’s work on regulatory reform and chaired the ad hoc committee that crafted the OECD Principles of Corporate Governance. Ms. Shelton served in the U.S. Department of State as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Trade Policy and Programs (1992 – 1995). She was a professional staff member on the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade, U.S. House of Representatives (1984 – 1992). Ms. Shelton began her career in the International Affairs division of the U.S. Treasury Department (1977 – 1984). She also worked during her career at Motorola Inc. (as Senior Advisor for Japan) and at the Special Trade Rep-resentative’s office (the predecessor of USTR). Ms. Shelton received her M.A. degree in international economics from The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. and her B.A. degree in political science and French from Duke University. She studied one year at l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris. She is co-author (with G.C. Hufbauer) of 6XEVLGLHV�LQ�,QWHUQDWLRQDO�7UDGH (Institute for International Economics, 1984) and numerous articles in professional and news journals. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is listed (past or present) in :KR¶V�:KR�LQ�$PHULFD, :KR¶V�:KR�LQ�WKH�:RUOG, 7KH�)LQDQFLDO���� and other related publications.

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5LFKDUG�6LPSVRQ� is the Director General, Electronic Commerce with Industry Canada, and is responsible for the development and implementation of the department’s overall strategy for electronic commerce. In this capacity, he has played a central role in designing Canada’s policies on electronic commerce at the domestic and international levels. One of his primary tasks was to direct preparations for the OECD Ministerial Conference on Electronic Commerce held in Ottawa in October 1998. He has continued to play a key role within the OECD as Chair of the Working Party on the Information Economy, the FTAA (as Vice-Chair of the E-Commerce Experts’ Group), the WTO, ITU and other international bodies dealing with aspects of electronic commerce. He was appointed as a member of the Commonwealth’s Expert Group on Information Technology by the Secretary General, and played a prominent role in the work of the G8 DOT Force, which reported to G8 Leaders at their Summit in Kananaskis in June 2002. Mr. Simpson has worked in the field of communications and information technology since 1975, occupying senior executive positions at the national and international levels. He was the Executive Director of Canada’s Information Highway Advisory Council from 1995 to 1997. The Advisory Council was a group of 29 senior private sector executives, appointed by the Minister of Industry to advise the Canadian government on issues pertaining to the development of communications and information technologies in Canada. The Council’s Final Report, 3UHSDULQJ�&DQDGD�IRU�D�'LJLWDO�:RUOG, which was published in September, 1997, became the foundation for Canada’s leading edge policies on connectivity, electronic commerce and the Internet. From 1992 to 1995, Mr. Simpson served as Assistant Vice-President for Telecommunications and Technology with the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) in Vancouver, B.C., where he had overall responsibility for its technology programs in support of distance education in developing countries within the Commonwealth. He also was interim President of the organization from March to September 1995. Prior to joining COL, Mr. Simpson was Director General, New Media, in the Canadian Department of Communications. From 1987 to 1988, he played a central role in the development of a comprehensive national telecommunications policy for Canada. His academic career included graduate studies at the University of Windsor and at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario.

$QGUHZ�/��6WROHU�was appointed in September, 2002 as the foundation Executive Director of the Adelaide-based Institute for International Business, Economics and Law (IIBEL). IIBEL is expected to serve as a focal point in Australia and in the Asia-Pacific region more generally for research, consulting, and training on trade policy and other issues of current relevance to international business and governments. Andrew L. Stoler served as Deputy Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) from November, 1999 to

October, 2002. In that capacity, Mr. Stoler played a central role in supporting the recently launched Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations and more generally in the direction of the Organization created to oversee the framework for the global trading system. Within the WTO, Mr. Stoler had specific respon-sibility for legal affairs and dispute settlement, trade in services, market access (tariffs and non-tariff measures) for trade in non-agricultural products, and the WTO work program on electronic commerce. Mr. Stoler is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Shanghai WTO Affairs Consultation Center. Prior to his service with the World Trade Organization, Andrew Stoler spent slightly more than ten years in Geneva as the Deputy Permanent Representative of the United States to the WTO and its predecessor, the GATT. During the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations, Mr. Stoler was the principal U.S. negotiator for a wide range of WTO Agreements, including the Trade Policy Review Mechanism, the Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the WTO and other institutional issues such as aspects of the final text of the Dispute Settlement Understanding. Mr. Stoler holds an M.B.A. in International Business from George Washington University and a B.S. in International Economic Affairs from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. Mr. Stoler is fluent in French and reasonably fluent in Spanish.

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6DP�<RXQJ 6XK is currently the President of the National Computerization Agency. Dr. Suh received his Master’s Degree from the Graduate School of Public Administration at Seoul National University and a Ph.D. from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Previously he had lead various divisions of national informatization, including the Korea Information Infrastructure (KII) Division at the National Computerization Agency from 1987 until 1996. He also served as Director General of the Educational Information Management

Bureau, Ministry of Education from 1996 to 1997, then as Vice President for the National Computerization Agency in 1998. For the following three years, he was President of the Korea Education & Research Information Service. Dr. Suh has participated in many leading edge programs on national IT strategy and policy issues such as Korea Information Infrastructure (KII), Cyber Korea 21. Also as a member of Special Committee of e-Government, he is leading the development of electronic government. Dr. Suh was awarded Civil Merit Awards in 1996 and the Order of Industrial Service Merit, Silver Tower in 2002. Dr. Suh received the Grand Prize for Management in New Industry Business Administration in 2001.

(ZDQ�6XWKHUODQG is the Executive Director of INTUG, the International Telecom-munications Users Group (INTUG), based in Brussels. He took up this post in August 1999, prior to which he had been an individual member of INTUG for ten years. He spent fifteen years as an academic, latterly a dean in the University of Wales. He has taught at the Universities of Wolverhampton, Westminster, Stirling and Wales, plus a semester as a visiting professorial lecturer at Georgetown University (Washington, DC). His teaching has

concentrated on the strategic and policy aspects of business use of telecommunications and information technlogy. Ewan is a graduate of the Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde, both in his native city of Glasgow, Scotland. He has presented papers at ITU Telecom, OECD, ITS, ITS Europe, PTC, TPRC and a range of telecommunications conferences in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa. The text and slides of his recent talks are available at:http://www.intug.net/talks/ and copies of articles at http://www.intug.net/members/articles/. He has an additional home page at http://sutherla.tripod.com

2UVRQ�6ZLQGOH�was sworn in as a Republican Commissioner on the Federal Trade Com-mission December 18, 1997. Commissioner Swindle was appointed in December, 2001 as head of the United States Delegation to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Experts Group to review the 1992 OECD Guidelines for the Security of Information Systems. Mr. Swindle has had a distinguished military career and served in the Reagan Administration from 1981 to 1989 directing financial assistance programs to

economically distressed rural and municipal areas of the country. As Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Development he managed the Department of Commerce’s national economic development efforts directing seven offices across the country. Mr. Swindle was State Director of the Farmers Home Administration for the U.S. Department of Agriculture financing rural housing, community infrastructure, business, and farming. In 1992, Mr. Swindle became the first national leader of Unites We Stand America and in 1993 worked with Jack Kemp, Vin Weber, William Bennett and Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick to form Empower America. In 1994 and in 1996 he was a Republican candidate for Congress in Hawaii’s 1st Congressional District. As a Marine aviator serving in South Vietnam on November 11, 1966, Mr. Swindle was shot down from the skies over North Vietnam while flying his 205th and last combat mission. He was captured by the North Vietnamese and held Prisoner of War in Hanoi for the next six years and four months. On March 4, 1973, Mr. Swindle was released from captivity. Mr. Swindle retired from the U.S. Marine Corps in 1979 with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. His 20 military decorations for valor in combat include two Silver Stars, two Bronze Stars, and two Purple Hearts. Mr. Swindle earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Management from Georgia Tech in 1959 and a Master of Business Admin-istration from Florida State University in 1975. He was born in Thomasville, Georgia, on March 8, 1937, and grew up in Camilla, Georgia. He and his wife, Angie live in Alexandria, Virginia.

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0R]HOOH�:��7KRPSVRQ was sworn in as a Commissioner on the Federal Trade Commission December 17, 1997. Mr. Thompson previously held the position of Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Department of the Treasury where he was responsible for overseeing domestic spending and credit policies, including the operations of the Federal Financing Bank and the Office of Government Financing. Mr. Thompson was also responsible for creating the Office of Privatization, which among its activities provides

guidance on the privatization of federal assets and operations, and for developing the financial assistance plan for the District of Columbia. Mr. Thompson was initially appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary in August 1993, and served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary from April 1996 until his appointment to the Commission. Prior to joining the Treasury Department, Mr. Thompson served as Acting Executive Director and General Counsel to the New York State Finance Agency and its four sister corporations. Mr. Thompson also was an attorney with the New York firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom. Mr. Thompson is a graduate of Columbia College and Columbia Law School. He also holds an M.P.A. from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. After graduating law school, Mr. Thompson served as law clerk to U.S. District Court Judge William M. Hoeveler in Miami, Florida. He has been on the faculties of the Woodrow Wilson School and Fordham Law School, and has been an Irvine Foundation Visiting Scholar at Stanford Law School. Mr. Thompson currently serves as Chairman of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Consumer Policy Committee where he also leads the United States delegation. Mr. Thompson was past president of the International Marketing Supervision Network (IMSN), an association of international consumer protection enforcement agencies. Mr. Thompson has been active in a number of professional and civic organizations, including the Association of Black Princeton Alumni and the Executive Board of Practicing Attorneys for Law Students, a mentoring organization assisting African-American and Latino law students. He is presently Vice President of the Columbia College Alumni Association, and is a member of the bar in New York State and the District of Columbia. Mr. Thompson was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is the son of Charles and Eiko Suzaki Thompson of West Babylon, New York. 1DWDOLD�9RONRZ, eGovernment Coordinator, Office of the President for Government Innovation� Biography not available at the time of printing. 7RPRKLNR�<DPDNDZD received his Bachelors of Law degree and Masters of Law degree from the

University of Tokyo. After working in NTT and InfoCom Research, Inc., he started his business carrier at NTT DATA Corporation since April of 2001. He engages in survey and research of legal issue regarding electronic commerce and telecommunication policy, mainly from perspective of conflict of laws, jurisdiction, and international trade law. In recent years he focused his effort mainly on legal and policy issues in relation with Cyber

Security. He has released some short paragraphs for NIKKEI NET, electronic news release by Japanese famous newspaper, recently on “a culture of security” as industrial efforts. He also joins the discussion of Global Business Dialogue on Electronic Commerce (GBDe) and Internet Law and Policy Forum (ILPF). In the GBDe, he contributed as a Sherpa of NTT DATA, a Chair for both the Cyber Security Working Group in 2002 and the Future of the Internet Working Group in 2003.

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'RXJODV�&��:RUWK is the Secretary General of the Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris. The BIAC represents and advances the public policy positions taken together by the business communities of the 30 OECD member states. Mr. Worth spent 36 years with the International Business Machines Corporation. At IBM, Mr. Worth held U.S. and international (France and Portugal) assignments in sales, management development,

marketing, personnel, software development, product line management, and line management of country operations. From 1992 through 1996, as IBM Vice President of Governmental Programs, Mr. Worth had global responsibility for IBM’s position on, and response to, a broad range of political and economic issues, encompassing taxation and finance, trade and investment, technology, human resources, and environmental concerns. In addition, Mr. Worth has been Chairman of the BIAC Trade Committee, Vice Chairman of the ICC Trade and Investment Commission, Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the U.S. National Center for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), a member of the U.S. Department of State Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy and a Member of the Board of Directors of the OAS Trust for the Americas. Mr. Worth is a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, the University of Virginia and holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Columbia University. Also, he has studied at the University of Paris, Sorbonne.