contributors

Dr. Pavan Duggal is an advocate specialized in the field of Cyberlaw, E-Commerce law. He is also a member of NOMCOM Committee on Multilingual Internet Names Consortium (MINC).

Pavan’s was for some time a recognized face as an English newsreader with the Indian state run television network Doordarshan. Pavan Duggal is the Conference Director of the International Conference on Cyberlaw, Cybercrime & Cybersecurity organized by Cyberlaws.Net. Pavan Duggal is the Chairman of the International Commission on Cyber Security Law

Paul Timmers has held multiple high-level cyber security positions within the EU, and is a visiting fellow at the University of Oxford.

Paul Timmers is a visiting fellow at the University of Oxford. His recent research is on cybersecurity, strategic autonomy and sovereignty. He is also visiting professor at Rijeka University, Senior Advisor to the European Policy Center, Chief Adviser to the European Institute of Technology/Health, and Supervisory Board member of the eGovernance Academy in Estonia. He is a former Director at the European Commission for Digital Society, Trust & Cyber security, responsible for policy, legislation and innovation in cybersecurity, digital privacy, digital health and ageing, e-government, and smart cities/mobility/energy. He was member of the Cabinet of European Commissioner Liikanen. He held various academic positions. He was manager in a large ICT company and co-founder of an ICT start-up, holds a PhD in physics from Nijmegen University in the Netherlands, an MBA from Warwick University in the UK, was awarded an EU fellowship at UNC Chapel Hill and completed executive cybersecurity education at Harvard

She is Advisory Board Member to the Global Forum of Cyber Expertise(GFCE), as well as, Lecturer and Researcher in Data Governance, Cybersecurity and Technology at the Cybersecurity in the SME sector Research Group of the Centre of Expertise Cyber Security, here her research deals with Public-Private Cooperation to counter Cybercrimes and the International Public Management Program, both at The Hague University of Applied Sciences. Furthermore, she collaborates as independent expert at the European Commission and is Senior Consultant with the Multilateral Diplomacy Program- United Nations Institute for Training and Research(UNITAR). She has lead and facilitated multistakeholder public policy dialogue pertaining at the Internet UN Internet Governance Forum. Sharing this prior roles with visiting faculty ones, at the Cyber School of Internet Governance convened by the Organization of American States and Webster University Cybersecurity Program – George Helbert Walker School of Business and Technology.

Over 15 years working in international cooperation, security and rule of law issues. Have spent the last decade bridging policy silos in the digital field, working on cutting edge technology-related legal and policy issues at the intersection of technological change, cybersecurity regulation, policy, governance and society. An accomplished articulate communicator and consensus builder with a track record in developing and contributing into policy processes, regulatory affairs, strategies, risk and compliance, developing multistakeholder engagement programmes, scientific and technical cooperation, with governments, international organisations, private sector, think tanks, academia and civil society  in cross-functional teams.

She is Juris Doctor in Law and Political Science, has pursued advanced specialization studies in Cybersecurity, Data Protection, Information Security and Philosophy of Technology Design. Recently, participated in the Harvard Kennedy School’s Executive Program on Cybersecurity The Intersection of Policy and Technology.

Arda Gerkens is Vice-Chairman and member of the Senate. Before that she was a member of the House of Representatives with, among other things, ICT as a focus area. In 2013, she submitted a motion to the Senate that was broadly supported by the House of Representatives, which prompted the report of the Rathenau Institute ‘Opwaarden’ about the desirability of an ethics committee on the digitization of society.
Gerkens is also Director of the Online Child Abuse Expertise Agency (EOKM), which includes the Reporting Center for Child Pornography. For the handling and detection of images of sexual abuse of children, the EOKM is developing AI systems.

Chris Painter is a globally recognized leader and expert on cyber policy, Cyber Diplomacy and combatting cybercrime. He has been on the vanguard of US and international cyber issues for over twenty-five years—first as a leading federal prosecutor of some of the most high-profile cybercrime cases in the country, then as a senior official at the Department of Justice, the FBI, the Senior Director for Cyber Policy at the White House National Security Council and finally as the world’s first top cyber diplomat at the State Department.

In his State Department role, Mr. Painter helped create a whole new area of foreign policy focus and there are now cyber diplomats in over thirty countries. He has helped drive, initiated or been involved in virtually every major US cyber policy for over a decade and has created innovative new organizations and approaches to deal with threats and take advantage of opportunities in cyberspace. He was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun in 2018 by the Government of Japan for promoting Japan-US Cyber collaboration, awarded the RSA Conference Award for Public Policy, and was named the Bartels World Affairs Fellow for 2017-18 by Cornell University. Among other things, he currently serves as a Commissioner on the Global Commission for the Stability of Cyberspace, Chair of the Global Forum for Cyber Expertise Working Group on Strategy and Policy, a member of the Board of Directors for the Center for Internet Security and an Associate Fellow at Chatham House.