Staff

Stuart Campo is the Team Lead for Data Policy and a Senior Fellow at the UNOCHA Centre for Humanitarian Data in The Hague. He has over twelve years of experience working in the humanitarian and development sectors, with a focus on the safe, effective, and ethical use of technology, data, and social innovation methods.

Stuart has worked in over 35 countries, including extended field postings in Kenya, Madagascar, South Sudan, and Uganda. Prior to joining OCHA, Stuart served as a Researcher on Standards and Ethics with the Signal Program on Human Security and Technology at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and in a variety of global and country-level roles related to technology and innovation management with UNICEF. Stuart studied Politics at Princeton University and is based in The Netherlands.

Mr Jaroslaw Ponder is Head of the ITU Office for Europe at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) (Geneva, Switzerland), representing ITU in Europe and directing actions, projects, initiatives and experts groups targeting 46 countries of the Europe Region.

His portfolio includes set of Regional Initiatives for Europe, designed by the European Member States and focusing on the ICT Infrastructure, Digitization, Digital Inclusion, Accessibility, Innovation and Cybersecurity.

Along the professional career, Mr. Ponder held official positions in the public sector and was a contributor to the legislative projects having the impact on the public policy. Since 2014 Mr. Ponder has been working for ITU holding diverse positions in the General Secretariat, Telecommunication Development Bureau, and Regional Presence, addressing complexity of information society development and digital transformation at national, regional, international level, including United Nations level. For several years he has led ITU’s work on the United Nations World Information Society Summit process, resulting in the establishment of the annual WSIS Forum, WSIS Prizes, WSIS Stocktaking

Arthur van der Wees, LLM studied and obtained his doctorate degree in computer, privacy, intellectual property rights and business law and human rights at Leiden University. He is founder and managing director of Arthur’s Legal, an international law firm with a global reach.

Next to being co-founder and director to the Institute for Future of Living, Arthur is founding member of the Alliance for IoT Innovation (AIOTI), where he is leader of both the Security in IoT, Privacy in IoT and Trust in IoT taskforces. and co-founder of the Institute for Accountability in the Digital Age.

Arthur is attorney at law, standardization expert, entrepreneur, strategist and frequent speaker worldwide and has in-depth experience and is well-connected in the world of digital, data, human-centric emerging technology, accountability, resilience & global business. 

He is (co-)author of many publications about innovation, digital transformation, data, IoT, computing, security and privacy, including the IERC Handbooks 2016 (Strategic & Legal Challenges) and 2017 (Security & Privacy) and European Commission’s Cloud SLA Standardisation. He has contributed to several EU regulations in the Digital Age. Arthur is part of ETSI’s Special Taskforce 547 on Security and Privacy in IoT. Amongst others, he is co-founder of the CyberChess Institute, Through CREATE-IoT, he is activity group leader on human-centric technology, trust, security, safety, privacy, legal and accountability topics in five EU large scale pilots on smart healthcare, smart cities, wearables, smart farming, food safety and autonomous vehicles. Furthermore he is advisory board member of several European projects in IoT, Security, Privacy, Ethics & Accountability.

Helen Brown is Legal Counsel at the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), an intergovernmental organisation established by treaty in 1899 which provides services for the resolution of disputes involving various combinations of states, state entities, intergovernmental organisations and private parties.

In this capacity, she provides legal and administrative support to arbitral tribunals in PCA‑administered proceedings, and she also assists the PCA Secretary-General in the discharge of his duties under the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules, including in relation to the designation of appointing authorities, the appointment of arbitrators, and decisions on challenges to arbitrators.

Helen is a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand. She holds an LLM in International Legal Studies from New York University, as well as an LLB (Hons) and BA (Spanish) from the University of Auckland.