Speaker Biographies

Speakers

ETSI Security Workshop 2013 Speaker Biographies

Markus BARTSCH, TÜViT GmbH

Markus Bartsch studied computer science and has worked for TÜViT GmbH since 1995.
Markus Bartsch is in charge of IT topics that affect new industrial technologies like Smart Grid, Automotive Security and Process Control Technologies. Actually he is part of the team that supports the German Ministry of Economics to specify a secure smart meter system.

Norbert BISSMEYER, Fraunhofer SIT

Norbert Bissmeyer studied Applied Computer Science at the University of Applied Science Muenster in Germany and received his Bachelor’s degree in 2006. Afterwards he studied Advanced Security Engineering at the University of Applied Science FH Joanneum in Austria and Ireland and received his Master’s degree in 2008. Since November 2008 he is working at the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology in Darmstadt, Germany in the department Mobile Networks. He is working in the field of vehicular ad hoc networks with focus on security and privacy. His primary research topic is Misbehavior detection with appropriate response mechanisms in decentralized ITS commutation.

Scott CADZOW

Scott Cadzow has over the past 15 years become a recognised standards development expert, primarily for security standards, in a number of International Standards Development Organisations including ETSI, ITU-T and ISO. In ETSI Scott is or has been the rapporteur for the TETRA security specifications, the suite of guidance documents for effective security standards development (covering Common Criteria, Risk analysis, and security requirements engineering) In MTS and TISPAN, and has acted as an expert to a number of Specialist Task Forces in TETRA, TISPAN, HF, MTS, eHEALTH and AT-D. He is chairman of the ETSI ITS Security group and also its counterpart in ISO TC204.16, vice-chairman of ETSI Project TETRA WG6 (Security) and the TETRA Security and Fraud Prevention Group (SFPG), and also vice-chairman of the ETSI Lawful Interception group. Scott has also contributed to reports from ENISA on network resilience and on measures to counter internet bullying.

Haitham CRUICKSHANK, University of Surrey

Dr. Haitham Cruickshank, senior lecturer at the Centre for Communication Systems Research (CCSR) University of Surrey, Guildford UK.
He worked there since January 1996 on several UK and European research projects in the ESA, IST and ICT programmes.  He was a member of ETSI STF 423, worked on ITS security and privacy specifications. His main research interests are network, user and information security, future network architecture in mobile, satellite and Internet.  He also teaches in the security, Internet networking and satellite courses at University of Surrey. He is a member of the IEEE Satellite and Space Communications Committee. Also he is a chartered engineer and corporate member of the IEE in UK.

Paolo DE LUTIIS, Telecom Italia

Mr. Paolo De Lutiis has a solid background in computer science and is specialized in ICT security. He works in Telecom Italia group since 2000 and is involved on internal projects related to the security of the NGN and NGA.
He has been involved in standardization activities regularly since 2006 and he had been appointed Chairman of the ETSI TISPAN WG7 and rapporteur of some of the main TISPAN NGN security work items. Moreover he has also collaborated to other fora and alliances focused on Security and has contributed to the ITU-T specifications for the security of the G-PON and XG-PON access networks.
He is interested in Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC), and he has been actively involved as rapporteur in the new ETSI ISG 'Information Security Indicators' (ISI).
He is the author of many papers and reports and more that 10 pending and granted patents related to the security of the ICT. 

Julien DEPLANCKE - GlobalPlatform Member Representative

Julien Delplancke is currently Product Marketing Manager at Trustonic. In this role, he is responsible for the marketing of Trustonic’s security products for mobile devices. Mr. Delplancke has participated in the development of several security technologies including the trusted execution environment which is standardized within GlobalPlatform.

With more than 10 years of experience in the mobile security industry, Mr. Delplancke is an active member of the GlobalPlatform Device Committee.

Marijke DE SOETE, Security4Biz

Dr. Marijke De Soete is currently working as an independent consultant (Security4Biz) since April 2004. She offers consultancy services for systems and applications based on emerging technologies including business, technical and security aspects. More in particular, she has been involved during the last years in the IT and the financial industry.
Until the end of 2003 she was holding the position of Vice President Emerging Technologies Product Security with MasterCard International since its merger with Europay. The responsibilities of her department included the security aspects in the development of new payment products based on chip technology and supporting services such as key management and PKI infrastructures. It further acted as a worldwide MasterCard Centre of Competence on Cryptography and IT security. From 1995 till 2001 she was Director of the Payment System Security Department at Europay responsible for the security architectures of payment products and the development and operation of the necessary key management facilities to support the issuance of cards and transaction processing.
Previously, Marijke worked for Philips where her team was in charge of the design and implementation of cryptographic protocols and key management for chip cards with applications in telecommunications, banking and secure office communications.
She holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from University Ghent (Belgium) and was more than 15 years involved in research in mathematics and cryptography. Dr. De Soete has been active in several standardisation committees in the domain of IT security and chip cards for banking and telecom (ETSI, ISO, ECBS, GlobalPlatform). She was involved in the creation of EMVCo in the late nineties and acted as a Board member for several years. She is Vice-Chair of ISO/IEC JTC 1 /SC 27, IT security techniques since 2004.

Gérard André DESSENNE

- Graduate Engineer from Ecole Nationale des Arts et Métiers (ENSAM)
- 32 years of business expérience  througout the world out of which at management level
- Founder of Pôle Traçabilité in Valence France in 2000
- Joins ISO/IEC/JTC1/SC31 in 2001
- Chairman of the French National Boby Mirror Committee for SC31 from 2003 to 2006 and Vice Chairman from 2006 to 2009.
- Project editor for Three ISO Standards in the RFID Conformance  & Performance area
- Joins CEN/TC225 in 2009 to reactivate the RFID standardization activity.
- Member of the Chairman Advisory Group and Chair of the TC225/WG5 Working Group on RFID technology.
- Expert and Project Editor of two deliverables (TR of PT-A and PT-D) Under the M/436 Mandate contract to CEN from the European Commission.

Francois ENNESSER, GEMALTO

Francois Ennesser holds a 'Diplome d'Ingenieur' with honours from ESIEE Paris and an MSEE from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. After starting his career in a real-time image processing startup in the USA, he contributed in 1994 to the technical documentation of Nortel Matra Cellular's GSM system. After 5 years of R&D on intelligent control systems for Air Liquide Welding, he joined Bull CP8 for SIM card development in 1999 and started contributing to telecommunication standards such as 3GPP and 3GPP2. He led the standardisation of the Inter-Chip USB versatile embedded interface in the USB IF and ETSI SCP before focusing on M2M and smart grid standardisation for Gemalto. He now chairs the Security working group of ETSI TC M2M and contributes to Smart Grids security through the M/490 standardisation mandate and European Commission Expert Groups.

Martin EUCHNER, Advisor of ITU-T Study Group 17

Martin Euchner began his career as a security engineer in Siemens R & D labs 1991 where he researched, developed and implemented cryptography, network security and security for multimedia systems in various international, national and company internal projects.
He joined security standardization where he has been making numerous active contributions to Voice-over-IP security standards such as H.323/H.235 in ITU-T, ETSI TIPHON/TISPAN, IETF and IMTC. He has also been actively involved in cable standardization such as the IPCablecom projects in ITU-T SG9 and in ETSI TC AT-D.
Involved in VoIP security standardization since 1997, he took leadership roles in security standardization as editor and Rapporteur since 2000 in ITU-T where he has progressed H.235 Recommendation into version 4.
Martin had been actively involved in standardizing security for Next Generation Networks. He was co-chairing as vice chairman of working group 7 in ETSI TISPAN where he was driving forward as editor/Rapporteur the Next Generation Network Release 1 security initiative and has produced important NGN security standards. Martin was further an active contributor to ITU-T's Next Generation Network initiative in ITU-T SG 13, was involved in ITU-T SG 17 general security standardization, in cybersecurity standards and in the ITU-T Focus Group on Identity Management.
From 2006 till 2010, Martin was working as senior security standardization expert in the fixed network department and then for the CTO within Nokia Siemens Networks.
Since December 2010, Martin serves the ITU-T Study Group 17 as Advisor where he is managing the study group meetings and the Recommendations.
During his career, Martin has gained broad security expertise in various fields. He oversees the international security standardization landscape.
Martin received a master's degree in computer science from Goethe University/Frankfurt.

Ricardo GENGHINI, Studio Genghini & Associati, ETSI TC ESI Chairman

Riccardo Genghini is not only one of the best known specialists in the field of electronic signature standards, he is also a respected academic, Visiting Professor of Comparative Commercial Law at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan. Developer of technologies for the certification of digital data, transactions and identities, since 2010 he is the Chairman of the Electronic Signatures Coordination Group, which coordinates the standardization effort of CEN and ETSI in the field of electronic signatures, with the aim of providing a rationalised framework for electronic signatures at EU level (EC mandate 460). This role has been acquired thanks to his experience as Chairman of technical bodies both in CEN (ISSS - Information Society Standardization System) and ETSI (ESI - Electronic Signature and Infrastructures). Moreover, he currently carries out his activity as a Public Notary in Milan, where in 1990 he founded the Studio Notarile Genghini, one of the most technologically advanced legal offices in Italy and in Europe in working with digital agreements and deeds.

Laura GHEORGE, University Politehnica of Bucharest

As a faculty member at University Politehnica of Bucharest, Laura is teaching Computer Networks, Operating Systems and Computer Networks Security. She finished her PhD on Security in Wireless Sensor Networks.
As a researcher, Laura is involved in the european project TWISNet - Trustworthy Wireless Industrial Sensor Networks.

Sławomir GORNIAK, ENISA

Sławomir Górniak, CISSP, is a telecommunications engineer focused on network security. Currently he is working at ENISA (European Network and Information Security Agency) as an expert in security tools and architecture. He is a co-author of ENISA reports covering areas of data protection, electronic identities and information security. He is also responsible for following up and supporting European security related R&D projects and technical developments in standardization. In the past he was involved among others in technology risk management, incident handling policies and systems of early recognition of network attacks.

Gershon JANSSEN, Secretary of the OASIS Board of Directors

Gershon Janssen serves as Secretary of the OASIS Board of Directors. Gershon is an independent consultant who works on large scale projects in the transport, logistics, finance, energy, and public sectors, designing and building complex information technology architectures that focus on service delivery, architecture, identity, privacy, cloud, and policy advisory. He is an active member, secretary, and co-editor of various identity- and privacy-related OASIS Technical Committees, such as IDCloud and Privacy Management Reference Model (PMRM). Gershon also sits on the Steering Committee of the OASIS e-Gov Member Section and acts as OASIS liaison to the Internet Technical Advisory Committee to OECD.

Gavin McWILLIAMS, Centre for Secure IT, Queen’s University Belfast

Gavin McWilliams is the Engineering Manager of the Data and Network Security Systems research cluster in the Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT) based in Queen’s University Belfast.  McWilliams is a veteran technologist of the telecoms industry and mobile internet sectors with a distinguished career in software product development spanning 4 decades.  McWilliams held senior management positions in Mobile Cohesion, Openwave Systems, Nortel Networks and BT’s Research and Development division before returning to academia.  He led software development teams who designed, constructed and successfully delivered mobile data traffic gateway solutions to some of the world’s largest mobile network operators including KDDI, Japan; Sprint PCS, USA; and Vodafone D2, Germany. He has broad experience of core Internet infrastructure, data communications, professional software development, and project delivery.

Chris MITCHELL, Royal Holloway, London University

Chris Mitchell received his BSc (1975) and PhD (1979) degrees in Mathematics from Westfield College, University of London. Prior to his appointment in 1990 as Professor of Computer Science at Royal Holloway, he was a Project Manager in the Networks and Communications Laboratory of Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Bristol, which he joined in 1985. Between 1979 and 1985 he was at Racal Comsec Ltd (Salisbury, UK), latterly as Chief Mathematician. Soon after joining Royal Holloway in 1990 he co-founded the Information Security Group, and also played a leading role in launching the MSc in Information Security in 1992. His research interests mainly relate to information security and applications of cryptography. He has played an active role in a significant number of international collaborative EU-funded research projects. He has served as a UK Expert on ISO/IEC JTC1/SC27 since 1992; he has edited around twenty international security standards and, in recognition of his contributions to international standards, in 2011 he received the prestigious IEC 1906 award. He has published well over 200 research papers. He is co-editor-in-chief of Designs, Codes and Cryptography, a senior editor of IEEE Communications Letters, a member of the editorial boards of The Computer Journal, Information Management and Computer Security, the International Journal of Information Security, and the KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, and a member of the accreditation board of Computer and Communications Security Abstracts. He has been a member of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Academic Advisory Board since 2003, he served as a member of the DoCoMo Euro-Labs Advisory Board between 2005 and 2009, and he continues to act as a consultant on a variety of topics in information security.

Mats NILSSON, ERICSSON

Mats Nilsson is a well known 'mobile industry veteran' with 25 years of experience. Presently working on Cybersecurity matters with his previous career covering items like
- VP Head of European Affairs - Ericsson
- Head portfolio management and terminals, Multimedia Solutions - Ericsson
- CEO OMTP ltd
- VP Head of standards, Ericsson
- Director Technical Strategies for Mobile Communications, Ericsson
- KAM and technical manager, Ericsson Japan

Béatrice PEIRANI, GEMALTO

After starting her career in the academic field, Dr Beatrice Peirani joined in 1995 the crypto labs in Thomson Telecommunication and the crypto team in French Ministery of Defense Délégation Générale de l'Armement in 1998. Entered on Gemalto in 2000 as security architect in the Security Department, she is now security expert, and Manager in the Standardization & Technologies Department. Dr Beatrice Peirani was involved in standardization activities around electronic signature since the very start, and expert in AFNOR, CEN and ETSI technical committees and working groups. She is an active contributor to CEN TC224 WG16 in charge of smart cards and electronic signature and expert in ETSI ESI STFs for the European Mandate M/460.

Johan RAMBI, Alliander

Mr. Johan Rambi is Alliancemanager Privacy & Security at Alliander in the Netherlands and supports the organization with the development of Smart Meter/Grid Cyber Security as a subject matter expert. Furthermore, Johan is chairman of the Dutch DSO Policy Committee Privacy & Security from Netbeheer Netherlands, who developed the Dutch Privacy & Security sector requirements for Advanced Metering Infrastructure. In Europe Johan Rambi is active in several EC expert groups and standardization committees on Smart Meter Privacy & Security / Smart Grid Cyber Security. Johan is a known speaker at several conferences on SCADA and Smart Grid Cyber Security. Before Johan joined Alliander, he worked as security architect and consultant at different organizations for the last 15 years.

Anthony Michael RUTKOWSKI, Netmagic Associates LLC / Yaana Technologies

Currently the CEO of Netmagic Associates LLC - a provider of technical, regulatory, and international consulting services relating to cybersecurity, network forensics and identity management.  In that capacity, serves as EVP for Regulatory Affairs and Standards for Yaana Technologies in governmental and industry forums worldwide, as well as provides regulatory counsel to the company.  Over the past several years, he has been active in many diverse security standards bodies, including as rapporteur for work in ETSI TCLI and ITU-T.
He is also a Distinguished Senior Research Fellow, at the Georgia Institute of Technology Nunn School Center for International Strategy Technology and Policy.  In December 2006, he was appointed by the FCC as a member of the WARN Act Advisory Committee to develop a next generation national emergency alert capability for Commercial Mobile Radio Systems.  He currently participates in numerous global technical standards and policy forums dealing with Identity Management, Next Generation Networks, National Security, and Law Enforcement Support.  He also participates on the advisory boards for Telecommunications Policy and Info magazines.
He is an engineer-lawyer who extensively uses and innovates with many of these technologies; and developed a career of following strategically important developments and turning them into business opportunities – carving out a 45 year career as a highly visible and well-known global enterprise strategist, public official, organization leader, consultant, lecturer, and author in both the Internet and telecom worlds, in the U.S. and internationally.  Positions include the private sector (VeriSign, SAIC, General Magic, Sprint International, Horizon House, Pan American Engineering, General Electric, Evening News Association) government (Federal Communications Commission, the International Telecommunication Union, Cape Canaveral City Council), academic (Internet Society, MIT, and NY Law School), and consulting as NGI Associates.

Bengt SAHLIN, 3GPP SA3 Chairman

Bengt Sahlin has an M.Sc. in Computer Science from Aalto University (former Helsinki University of Technology (TKK)). At TKK, he has also lectured on Modern Data Communications as well as on DNS and DNS security. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).
Bengt has worked in the fields of data- and telecommunications for 16 years, mostly with security aspects. In 2000 he joined Ericsson where he has worked on mobile systems security and product security. He was also technical coordinator for Ericsson's security implementation projects, and is a manager of a security research group within Ericsson.
Bengt Sahlin was elected 3GPP TSG SA WG3 chairman in November 2009, and was re-elected for a second term in November 2011.

Ari TAKANEN, CODENOMICON

Ari Takanen, founder and CTO of Codenomicon, has been active in the field of software security testing research since 1998 focusing on information security issues in next-generation networks and security critical environments. He has worked with numerous software development projects across the industry, both from software quality aspect but lately more on security test automation perspective. Ari is the author of several papers on software security, and is a frequent speaker at security and testing conferences, leading universities and international corporations. He is also the author of two books on VoIP security and security testing.

Nils ULLTVEIT-MOE, University of Agder

Nils Ulltveit-Moe is a research fellow at the University of Agder in Norway. He holds a B.Sc. in Telecommunications from the University of Agder and a M.Sc. in Cybernetics from the University of Stavanger. He has previously worked as software developer for Ericsson and later worked with computer security for Proseq AS, which now is part of Telenor. He has been Assistant Professor at UIA since 1998, giving courses amongst others on data communication, client/server programming, operating systems, directory services, Python programming and computer security.  This includes supervising several Bachelor and Master projects.  He participated in the FP6 EIAO IST project doing research on large scale automatic assessment of web accessibility. Currently, he works as a researcher and workpackage leader for the FP7 project PRECYSE, which does research on how to protect critical infrastructures from cyber-attacks. In addition, he is finalising his own Ph.D. at the University of Agder on privacy enhanced network monitoring.

Luc VAN DEN BERGHE, CEN

Luc Van den Berghe joined CEN in 1990. During his first years in CEN, he gave support to EWOS, the European Workshop for Open Systems. Following the closure of EWOS, he continued to support ICT standardization in CEN, in a broad range of areas (eAccessibility, eGovernment, eSignatures, ICT-skills, biometrics, etc).
Since January 2010, he is programme manager in the Research Integration Unit of the Innovation Department of the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre, promoting the 'integrated approach' between Standardization and Research/Innovation and linking research projects with standardization. In the Research Integration Unit, he is the main contact for projects that are active in the areas of ICT, security and space.

Martin Uhlherr, DIN Deutsches Institut für Normung e.V.

Martin Uhlherr has a degree in Economic Engineering/ Electrical Engineering from Technische Universität Berlin. He joined the German Institute for Standardization (DIN Deutsches Institut für Normung e.V.) in 2007 as Project manager at the Information Technology and selected IT Applications Standards Committee (NIA). He is secretary of the German mirror committee of JTC1/ SC27 and other national technical committees in the field of ICT. He is member of the DIN coordination office for IT Security (KITS) and the  European initiative on cyber security, the Cyber Security Coordination Group (CSCG) at CEN, CENELEC and ETSI. He is involved in various IT-Security coordination initiatives at DIN at national and international level.

Dr. Klaus VEDDER, Giesecke & Devrient GmbH

Klaus Vedder was educated at the universities of Tübingen, Birmingham and London where he received a Ph.D. in Pure Mathematics.
After having held teaching positions for Mathematics at the University of London (England) and the University of Gießen (Germany), he joined the central research section of Siemens AG in Munich where he led a group of cryptographers. In 1987 he moved to his present company Giesecke & Devrient where he set up the GSM business. As Head of the Telecommunications Division in the Business Unit Cards and Services, with world-wide responsibility for all activities in the field of Telecommunications, he established G&D as the #2 in the SIM card business. The anticipated convergence of payment and telecommunications in the smart card sector and the need to address such devices remotely led to a new organisational structure for the Business Unit in January 2011, now called Mobile Security, where Klaus signs responsible for Mobile Strategy as a Group Senior Vice President.
With his background in data security and his involvement in the standardisation of security techniques he was elected chairman of the ISO/IEC committee SC27 'Information technology - Security techniques' in 1992, a position he held until 1996. The scope of this committee includes the standardisation of generic methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for IT Security.
Klaus has been involved in the standardisation of the SIM from the very beginning in 1988. He has held the position of chairman of SIMEG, the SIM Expert Group then responsible for the standardisation of the SIM, and the various committees succeeding it since 1993. Today he chairs the ETSI Technical Committee 'Smart Card Platform' (TC SCP) which was set up in the year 2000 to elaborate a generic smart card platform (called UICC) for mobile communication systems.
Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) is a leading international technology provider headquartered in Munich, Germany. With a headcount of over 10,000 employees, the Group generated sales of
€ 1.7 billion in fiscal 2010. Founded in 1852, G&D is a global market leader and pioneering innovator in banknote production and processing, smart card solutions for telecommunications and electronic payment, and security documents and identification systems. More than 50 subsidiaries and joint ventures in over 30 countries ensure customer proximity world-wide.
Dr. Klaus Vedder
Giesecke & Devrient GmbH, PO Box 80 07 29, D-81607 Munich, Germany.
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Members of the Programme Committee

ETSI Security Workshop 2013 Programme Committee Members

Charles BROOKSON, ETSI OCG Security Chairman, workshop chairman

Charles worked recently in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills of the United Kingdom Government for 12 years, and is a Professional Electronic Engineer. He previously was Head of Security for one2one (now T-Mobile UK), and worked within British Telecom for twenty years before that. He has worked in many security areas over the last 35 years, and mobile radio for over 25 years. He is runs his own Company, Zeata Security Ltd and works with others in Azenby Ltd specialising in mobile security.
He has been Chairman on the GSM Association Security Group (consisting of almost 800 Operators in over 200 Countries) for over 20 years.
He has been working the GSM and 3GPP security standards, first chairing the Algorithm Expert Group way back in 1986.  He is Chairman of the NISSG, a group that was set up to co-ordinate security standards amongst the three European Security Standards Organisations and other bodies outside Europe. He is also Chairman of ETSI OCG Security, which is responsible for security within ETSI (The European Telecommunications Standards Institute which produces and is involved in Telecommunications Standards worldwide). He was on the Permanent Stakeholders group of ENISA, The European Network and Information Security Agency.

Dr. Carmine RIZZO, ETSI, CISA CISM CISSP CMP ITIL PRINCE2, Workshop co-chair

Carmine Rizzo has worked in the ETSI Secretariat in France since November 2007, where he is responsible for the co-ordination of various Technical Committees and is the ETSI Secretariat point of reference for security standardisation activities.
He obtained a Master Degree in Electronic/Telecommunication Engineering in Italy, followed by a Ph.D in Radio Communications in the United Kingdom.
His professional background in the United Kingdom includes experience in the private sector for Nortel Networks as Data Communications Network Engineer, and over five years' experience in the international organisation ECMWF (European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts), working in an operational environment for the management of IT projects, services and security.
He has gained, and actively maintains, several professional certifications covering broad aspects of technical security and security management, as well as project management, IT audit, control, service and change management.

Walter FUMY, Bundesdruckerei GmbH

Dr. Walter Fumy is Chief Scientist at Bundesdruckerei GmbH, where he is responsible for overseeing research and development in the area of eID security. He is strongly involved in the international standardization of security techniques, serving since 1997 as Chairman of ISO/IEC committee SC 27 IT Security Techniques. He is also chairing the BITKOM (German Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media) Working Group on Security Management.

Nathalie GUINET, ETSI Event Professional

Nathalie is a member of the ETSI events cell. She is handling ETSI workshops in general. Nathalie is the person behind  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  giving a hard time to speakers! She will be assisting Charles Brookson and Carmine Rizzo throughout the Security Workshop by handling abstracts and presentations and the overall event organisation. 

Valtteri NIEMI, Nokia Research Center

Valtteri Niemi received a PhD degree in Mathematics from the University of Turku, Finland in 1989. After serving in various positions at Univ of Turku, he was an Associate Professor in Mathematics at the University of Vaasa, Finland, during 1993-97. He joined Nokia Research Center (NRC), Helsinki, Finland, in 1997. He has contributed in several roles for Nokia research in wireless security area, including cryptological aspects. In 2008, he moved to the new NRC laboratory in Lausanne, Switzerland, where his main focus was on privacy-enhancing technologies. He was nominated as a Nokia Fellow in January 2009. During 2011, Valtteri lead the Security and Networking Protocols team in the Radio Systems laboratory of NRC (back in Helsinki). Starting from 2012, Valtteri moved back to academia and is a Professor in Mathematics at Univ of Turku. Dr. Niemi participated 3GPP SA3 (security) standardization group from its beginning and during 2003-2009 he was the chairman of the group. Before 3GPP, Dr. Niemi took part in ETSI SMG 10 for GSM security specification work. He has published around 60 scientific articles and he is a co-author of four books and more than 20 patents.

Claire VISHIK, Intel Corporation

Claire Vishik's work at Intel Corporation focuses on hardware security, trusted computing, privacy enhancing technologies, some aspects of encryption and related policy issues. Claire is a member of the Permanent Stakeholders Group of ENISA, the European Network and Information Security Agency. She is active in standards development and is on the Board of Directors of the Trusted Computing Group. She is also a member of the Council of the Information Security Forum and many advisory boards. Claire received her PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to joining Intel, Claire worked at Schlumberger Laboratory for Computer Science and AT&T Laboratories studying various aspects of security & Internet technologies. Claire is the author of many papers and reports and 30 pending and granted US patents.

Mike WALKER, King's College London

Michael Walker was recently appointed Head of School for Natural and Mathematical Sciences at King's College London.  He has spent more than twenty five years in industry with Vodafone, the last ten years of which, until his retirement in September 2009, as the Group Research and Development Director for the Vodafone Group of companies, with the responsibility for the Group's research activities, intellectual property and technology standards worldwide.  He also led technology innovation and managed engagement with start-up companies for Vodafone, and was a member of the board of Vodafone Ventures, the venture capital arm of the company. 
Michael is a Vodafone Fellow and an Executive Technical Advisor to Vodafone.  He was chairman of the Board of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute for the 2008-2011 Board period. He was a member of the UK Technology Strategy Board, and currently sits on the UK Government's OFCOM spectrum advisory board.  Michael is a non-executive director of Avanti, a satellite service provider, as well as of some start up companies.
Michael is Vice Chairman of the mobile VCE – a group of universities and industries researching mobile communications. He sits on scientific advisory boards for the Universities of Warwick and Surrey, and was a member of the academic advisory board of the University of Karlsruhe, Germany.  He holds the Vodafone Chair in Telecommunications at Royal Holloway, University of London, as a part-time professor. In 2009 he was made a Fellow of the Wireless World Research Forum. 
Before joining Vodafone, Michael was Head of Mathematics at Racal Research, and prior to that an academic at the University of Tuebingen in Germany. 
Michael is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and until June 2011 served as a member of Council of the Academy. He is the current President of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. He was appointed an OBE in June 2009 for his services to the telecommunications industry.