contributors

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.

Member of Parliament in the Netherlands in the subcommittees for Justice, Security, Police and Intelligence Service.

Kathalijne Buitenweg is member of the national parliament, and deputy leader of the Dutch Green Party, since 2017. She is also chairman of the Temporary committee on the Digital Future.

From 1999-2009 she was a member of the European Parliament. Her main focus has been on justice and police cooperation, on equal opportunities and tackling discrimination. In the years between she was a Commissioner of the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights. In 2016 she obtained her PhD at the law faculty of the University of Amsterdam.

Chair of DIGITALEUROPE’s Brexit Advisory Council

John Higgins has been the public face of the digital sector in Europe since November 2011 and speaks regularly on platforms and at conferences throughout Europe and beyond. He was Director General of DIGITALEUROPE, the association for the digital technology industry in Europe, until April 2017, following nine years leading its UK member association, Intellect, now TechUK.

In spring of 2017 he became Chair of the Global Digital Foundation and a Senior Advisor to global communications company, Burson Cohn & Wolfe. He continues to chair DIGITALEUROPE’s Brexit Advisory Council and is chair of the University of Warwick’s European Advisory Board.

In 1995 he was appointed CEO of the Rocket Networks, a California based dot.com that provided the world’s first online recording studios. He returned to the UK in 1998 and became Director General of the Computing Services and Software Association, one of Tech UK’s predecessors. He holds a degree in Mathematics from the University of East Anglia and then a post graduate Diploma in Accounting and Finance. Early in his career he trained as a systems analyst, held senior positions with Ernst & Young and worked in Chicago with leading software company SSA.

John was President of the European Commission’s Strategic Policy Forum (SPF) on Digital Entrepreneurship. The SPF was facilitated by DG Grow for almost three years and examined the current and future impact of new digital technologies such as Artificial Intelligence on important sectors of the European economy and society such as automotive, healthcare, SMEs and social enterprise. The SPF was supported with extensive research from consultants such as PwC and EY.

John was also a Board member of the European Internet Forum. John’s other committee chair roles have included the audit committee at the University of Warwick, the cross industry association council of the CBI, a government/industry space committee and the global policy action committee of the World IT Services Association, WITSA. He was a board member of e-skills, the UK’s digital sector skills council and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

He was presented with two personal awards for outstanding contributions; first to the association sector in 2004 and then to the IT industry in 2008. The Queen appointed him a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in 2005 for his services to the UK IT industry.