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List of Speakers
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 List of Speakers, chairs and rapporteurs at EMCIS Conference
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| Jaak Aaviksoo |
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 | | Born on January 11, 1954 in Tartu. PhD in physics - Institute of Physics, Estonian Academy of Sciences, 1981. Since 1992 - professor of optics and spectroscopy at the University of Tartu. 1992 - 1995 - First Vice-Rector of the University of Tartu. 1995 - 1997 - Minister of Education of Estonia. Since 1998 - rector of the University of Tartu.
Scientific expertise: Photoexcitations in solids with lasers, ultrafast energy transfer in semiconductors and molecular crystals. Higher education management and policy.
Memberships: Estonian Academy of Sciences, Research and Development Council of Estonia, Academic Council of the President of Estonia. Board of the European University Association, Information Society Forum. Estonian Phys. Society, European Phys. Society, American Opt. Society. |
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| Emir Arslanagic |
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 | | Director, Network Security Engineering & Infrastructure, Cable & Wireless.
Emir A. has been with Cable and Wireless (C&W) for over seven years. Currently serving as a Director of the Security Engineering and Infrastructure department. He and his teams are responsible for designing and implementing logical security solution for all C&W Global networks. He is also responsible for development of the security products such as Intrusion Detection System, Managed Firewall, PKI, Secure Intranets, etc…
Emir A. holds MS degree in Telecommunications from the University of Maryland, A. James Clark School of Engineering. His master thesis was development of the Protection Profile in Common Criteria 2 format for public Internet networks. He holds BS degree in Electrical Engineering, from the University of Sarajevo, School of Electrical Engineering, department of informatics. |
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| Walter Beforth |
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 | | Walter Beforth, 52 years, married, 2 children. Dipl.-Ing. Telecommunications (M.Sc.), Studies in Economics. Present Position: Vice-President, Alliances Support T-Com Deutsche Telekom Group, Bonn.
Professional experiences: Project Director: Privatisation of the Croatian Telecommunications Company HT. Project Director: Privatisation of the Bulgarian Telecommunications Company BTC. Representative and Project Manager: Office of Deutsche Telekom Spain, Madrid. Country Manager, International Division, Telekom Headquarters Bonn. Head of Planning Group for Digitization, Branch Office Düsseldorf
25 years abroad: Detecom GmbH : Senior Project Manager in different projectsGTZ :Senior Government Advisor, Ministry of PTT Rhiyadh, Saudi Arabia
ITU: Senior Expert, Training Centre of PTC Harare, Zimbabwe, Senior Expert, Institut desTélécommunications, Oran, Algeria. |
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| Karel Březina |
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 | | Born in Prague on November 25, 1972. He graduated from the Prague School of Economics, Faculty of National Economics, in September 1997. In 1991 Mr. Březina joined the ČSSD (Czech Social Democratic Party). In the 1992 - 1994 period he held the position of Vice-Chairman of the Young Social Democrats organization. In 1993 he was elected Vice-Chairman of the Prague Regional Executive Committee of the ČSSD; since 1997 he has been a member of the Party Presidium.
From May 1, 1997 till the early elections of 1998 he served as the Director of the Secretariat of the Chairman of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic (Speaker).
Since July 22, 1998 Mr. Březina has been employed with the Office of the Government of the Czech Republic where he held the position of the Director of the Prime Minister´s Section. On August 21, 1998 the Government appointed him to the post of the Head of the Office of the Government of the Czech Republic. In addition, on March 23, 2000 he was appointed as a Minister of the Government of the Czech Republic. He is also the Chairman of the Government Council for State Information Policy and the Council for Non-State Non-Profit Organizations; the Executive Vice-Chairman of the Inter-Ministerial Anti-Drug Commission and the Government Board for People with Disabilities and he is a member of the National Security Council and the Council for Intelligence Activities. Mr. Březina is married. An active sportsman, he takes a keen interest in modern history, politology and economics. |
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| Rudi Bric |
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 | | Rudi Bric, Chief Executive Officer and president of HERMES SoftLab. Graduated from the University of Ljubljana in technical mathematics.
A clear vision and a strong entrepreneurial spirit led his career starting as a system developer to currently being one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the region. The European Foundation for Management Development awarded Mr. Bric in 1993 the "European Small Business Person of the Year Award." Together with his partners, Mr. Bric was able to grow the company from four engineers to over 600 employees into one of the leading companies in the field of software engineering in Central and Eastern Europe. He is an active member in the European Foundation for Quality Management and other leading international industry associations. He is also a member of the European Government Business Relations Council. In Slovenia, he actively cooperates with universities and the Entrepreneur Academy. He is Chairman of the Slovenian Association for Technical Culture and Chairman of the Council for Science and Technology of the Republic of Slovenia. Recently, he was invited to the Entrepreneur Forum at the Ministry of Economy, and the Information Society Forum held by the government of the Republic of Slovenia. |
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| John Brimacombe |
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| | John Brimacombe is a Director based in London responsible for Rothschild's investment banking business in Central and Eastern Europe. He has twenty years experience in investment banking, including fourteen with Rothschild and nine specialised in the region. He has significant telecoms experience, having advised clients in Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, Hungary and Russia. |
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| Giangaleazzo Cairoli |
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 | | Born in Como, North of Italy, after a Political Science licence at the University of Milano he specialised in European Studies in France, then joined the European Commission in 1967.
After working in the Directorate General for Social Affairs, and two years in the Cabinet of a Member of the Commission, he continued his career in the Personnel and Administration Directorate General, then in 1982 joined what is now the Directorate General for Information Society, where he has had various responsibilities in personnel, budget and organisation management.
He participated then to the management of the Telematics Applications Programme in the 4th Research Framework Programme and co-operated actively in the organisation of the Ministerial Conference on Information Society which took place in Warsaw in May 2000, and also to the launch and development of the Global Cities Dialogue.He is currently Head of Unit in charge of the Regional and Societal Aspects of the Information Society. |
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| Guy Clausse |
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 | | G. Clausse - Dr.rer.pol. - after a 10-year career in economics research and consulting joined EIB in 1985, where he became involved in project appraisals, environmental cooperation and lending coordination work; now heading the Operational Lending Policies division. |
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| Janez Drnovšek |
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 | | Dr Janez Drnovšek was born on 17 May 1950 in Celje. He graduated in economics at the University of Ljubljana's Faculty of Economics. In 1986, he finished his doctoral studies in economic science at the Faculty of Economics and Business in Maribor. In 1994, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Boston and in 1999, an honorary doctorate from the Illinois Wesleyan University.
After a successful career in banking, Dr Drnovšek was elected as the Slovene representative in the collective presidency of the former Yugoslavia. From May 1989 to May 1990 he was the Head of the Presidency of the former Yugoslavia. In September 1989, he presided over the Summit of the Non-Aligned in Belgrade. During Slovenia's independence negotiations, Dr Drnovšek was the principal negotiator between the Slovene leadership and the leaders of the former Yugoslavia and the high command of the Yugoslav People's Army. In July 1991, he successfully negotiated the final withdrawal of the Yugoslav Federal Army from Slovenia.
In March 1992, Dr Drnovšek became the president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDS) of Slovenia. In April of the same year, the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia elected him Prime Minister, only the second person to hold this position in the newly independent Slovenia. Following a parliamentary election, which was convincingly won by the LDS, Dr Drnovšek was again elected Prime Minister in January 1993. Dr Drnovšek started his third mandate as Prime Minister in January 1997. He was Prime Minister until June 2000. When the Liberal Democracy of Slovenia won the parliamentary elections Dr Drnovšek formed the present coalition between the Liberal Democracy of Slovenia, United List of Social democrats of Slovenia, SLS+SKD Slovenian People's Party and the Democratic Party of Slovene Pensioners, and was on 16 November 2000 confirmed by Parliament as Prime Minister for the fourth time.
During his years of political activity, Dr Drnovšek has taken part in many international meetings, conferences and forums with participants from the highest levels - presiding over, among others, the CEFTA summit in September 1997 in PortoroI. For his achievements and personal contribution to Slovenia's successful transition to democracy and its development into a democratically and economically stable country, as well as towards its inclusion into the European and international communities, Dr Drnovšek has received a number of international awards, such as Le prix de la Méditerranée (Crans Montana Forum, Malta, October 1995), the award of the Fund for American Studies (American Institute of Political and Economic Systems, Prague, August 1998) and the Dialogo Europeo award (Madrid, November 1998).
Dr Drnovšek is a frequent guest of honour and lecturer at prestigious international establishments and universities including the Diplomatic School at the Johns Hopkins University (SAIS) in Washington, the Council of Foreign Relations in Washington, the Cercle Gaulois in Brussels, the French Institute for International Relations (IFRI) in Paris, the Institute of International Questions and Foreign Politics in Madrid, Chatham House in London, Trinity College in Dublin, the Institute of International Relations in Buenos Aires, the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs in Wellington, the Diplomatic Academy of the Mexican Foreign Ministry in Ciudad de Mexico. He is also the author of numerous articles in the fields of credit control and monetary policy, as well as on international financial relations, in which he has focused on the world loan crisis. Dr Drnovšek speaks English, French and Spanish, German and Serbocroatian. |
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| Gun Eriksson |
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 | | Born on 11th june 1948. Married, two children.
State Secretary, Ministry of Industry, Employment and Communications, since 2001. Full time representative: Sigtuna municipality, 1994-2001. Upper compulsory school teacher, Sigtuna, 1991-1994. Political Adviser, Ministry of the Environment 1990-1991. Municipal secretary, National Board of the Swedish Social Democratic Party, 1988-1990. Director of Studies, Balsta 1986-1987. Political secretary, Uppsala county council 1991-1986. Upper secondary school teacher, local authority adult education, Enkoping 1974-1980.
Education Master of Arts, Stockholm University, Subject teacher training, Stockholm lnstitute of Education, 1972. Individual courses, Stockholm and Uppsala Universities.
Other assignments: 2000-2001 Democracy project in Mongolia and Russia for Sala International Development Association. 1995-since: Member of the board of the Greater Stockholm Energy Company Ltd (STO SEB), Vice-President since 1998. Member of Stockholm county council since 1994. Member of Sigtuna municipal council since 1988, Member of Habo municipal council 1976-1987. |
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| Dušan Faktor |
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 | | Born on 13th February 1965 in Nitra. Marital status: married, two children.
Education: Electrotechnical faculty, Slovak Technical University, Bratislava (1983 - 1988).
PhD. - Electrotechnical faculty, Slovak Technical University, Bratislava (1988 - 1993).
Career: Academic Educanionist, Electrotechnical Faculty, STU, Bratislava (1988 - 1993).
Economy Director, Euro Comp, Ltd. (1993 - 1997).
Director General, Transfinance Slovakia, a.s. (1997 - 1999).
Director General, President of Board of Directors, Sofix, a.s. (1999). |
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| Michael Frendo |
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 | | Dr. Michael Frendo, Managing Partner of Gatt Frendo Tufigno, Advocates, a lawyer for 24 years, is a specialist in Telecommunications law and European law and the head of the firm's Telecommunications/IT/Media Law and European Law practices. Dr Frendo is a former minister of Transport and Communications, IT, Science and Technology and Broadcasting and a Senior Lecturer in Telecommunications law, European law, and Private International Law at the University of Malta. Heading a team of experts, Dr Frendo has carried out various international consultancies in telecommunications, particularly in Africa and the Mediterranean region, on assignments with the World Bank and together with a number of international law firms, including Thelen Reid & Priest and Clifford Chance.
Dr Frendo has advised major telecommunications players in Malta, both fixed and mobile, with regard to the impact of the European Union laws on their operations. Recently, Dr Frendo has successfully lead its specialist team in a project commissioned by the Malta Communications Authority to assess the implications of the implementing in Malta of the new EU framework for electronic communications networks and services, both from the legislative and institutional perspective. |
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| Pavel Gantar |
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 | | Born 1949. Present Position: Minister of Information Society. Member of Government of Slovenia. Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana.
Education: M.A. Degree in Political Sciences. The Title of the Theses: Urbanism and Sociology. October 1983, Faculty of Sociology, Political Sciences and Journalism, University of Ljubljana, B.A. in Sociology. Ph.D. in Sociology. The Title of the Theses: Sociological Critique of Theories of Planning, November 1990, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb, Croatia. Languages: English, German(fluently), French (passive). Fields of Professional Interest: Sociology of development, urban and housing policy, public administration and planning, urban social movements, theoretical sociology. Member of various professional boards in the field of sociology and urban planning.
Political Activity: Elected as a Minister of Information Society in December 2000, Minister of Environment and Physical Planning from March 1994 to June 2000; Member of the Liberal Democracy of Slovenia; in eighties involved in various civil movements; Member of the Committee for Protection of Human Rights; Columnist of the opposition magazine "Mladina"; President of the "ŠKUC-Forum" - at that time the leading Association for alternative culture. |
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| Austin Gatt |
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 | | Dr Austin Gatt was born on July 29, 1953 and received his education at the Lyceum and the University of Malta where he read law and graduated in 1975. He practised law as a partner with one of the oldest law firms in Malta between 1975 and 1982. In 1980 he was entrusted by the Nationalist Party with building a party organisation to eliminate the possibility of electoral fraud in the 1981 General Elections. In the 1981 elections the Nationalist Party polled 51 percent of the votes. In 1982, Dr Gatt was appointed Chairman of the Management Board of Independence Print Company Limited, the company which incorporates all the commercial activities of the Nationalist Party. He was also appointed Head of the Legal Office of the Party. In 1987 he again led the organisation of the Party to monitor electoral fraud and in the same year was appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors of Independence Company Limited and Euro Tours Company Limited. After the Nationalist Party was elected to government in 1987, Dr Gatt was elected Secretary General. As Secretary General, Dr Gatt undertook a complete reorganisation of the Party's political, administrative and commercial structures and was responsible for preparing and ensuring the implementation of all plans for the General Elections of 1992 and 1996. Dr Gatt contested the general elections for the first time in 1996 and was elected from the First District. Between 1996 and 1998 he was Party spokesman for Justice, Local Councils and Housing and was entrusted by the Nationalist Party to set up the Party's television station. Following the Nationalist Party victory at the General Elections of September 1998, Dr Austin Gatt was appointed Parliamentary Secretary in the Office of the Prime Minister, and six months after, Minister for Justice and Local Government, also responsible for the Public Service Reform and electronic policy and the introduction of e-government in Malta. Dr Gatt is married to Marisa Zammit Maempel and they have two children. |
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| Hans-Peter Gebhardt |
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 | | European Commission DG" Information Society"
German Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, Bonn, 1975-1980 and 1984-1987. Administrator for legal affairs. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 1981-1984. Director of a Saudi/German joint venture company providing public telecommunications services for the government. European Commission, Brussels, 1988-1990. Expert for telecommunications policy and regulation in particular concerning the directive on privacy protection in the telecoms sector. Deutsche Telepost company, Bonn, 1991-1992. Consulting for international satellite organisations as well as Chairman of the GSM-MOU Working Group on Data Protection in Mobile Telephony.
Principal Administrator at the European Commission since 1993 in the Directorate-General "Information Society". 1. Unit for the Implementation of the Regulatory Framework. Monitoring of the application of EU telecommunications regulation in the Member States, in particular concerning the leased lines directive. 2. Unit for International Regulatory Aspects. Advice for Central and Eastern European (up to 1999) as well as for Mediterranean countries on restructuring of the tele-communications sector and reforming the legal and regulatory framework both on a bilateral basis and within the programmes PHARE and MEDA. |
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| Ingrid Götzl |
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 | | Ms Ingrid Götzl started her professional career as a teacher for Classical Philology and Physical Education; in 1980 she completed a postgraduate training on Management and Organisation; in 2001, she received a BSc (First Class Hons) of the University of Derby/UK.
Since 1982, Ms Götzl has been working for the Vienna City Administration in the field of IT/ICT, starting as project manager, later heading the IT training department, and since 1996 working in the Vienna Chief Executive Office/ICT Strategy and Management. Ms Götzl has been holding the office of TeleCities President since January 2001; furthermore, Ms Götzl represents the City of Vienna in the Austrian Association of Cities and Towns/IT section. |
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| József Györkös |
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 | | József Györkös, Ph.D., is a State Secretary at the Ministry of Information Society in Slovenia. He is the head of Department for Application in Information Society. He was born in 1961. Until 2001 he worked as an associate professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Information Science at the University of Maribor.
His pedagogical work has always been interwoven with research. His bibliography contains more than 300 works including publications in international journals and books. He still works as a reviewer, editor and acts as a member of the program committees of international conferences. J. Györkös is a member of the Slovene Association for Information Science and of the international associations IEEE and ACM. József Györkös has been a member of the Senate of the Central Faculty and from 1996 to 2000 he was also a member of the Board of Directors of the institution. Furthermore he served also as a member of the Board of Directors of the University of Maribor.
He has participated in various university commissions, among others as a coordinator for the establishment and realisation of the Media Communication degree program, the aim of which is the training of the current configuration of multidisciplinary academics.
In the field of pedagogical and scientific work, he participated in applied research projects. Initially, after 1986, he worked primarily in the area of databases and systems software. In the 1990s his attention turned to the field of quality control in the development of information systems and other applications, which, together with his colleagues, was applied to the area of introducing quality control systems and process management systems in some larger companies and at the governmental institutions. |
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| Kryzstof Heller |
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| | Mr Kryzstof Heller has M.SC. (1983) and PH.D. (1988) in physics from the Jagiellonian university, Krakow, Polland. Currently, Mr. Heller is undersecretary of the state in the Ministry of infrastructure, responsible for telecommunications and post. He started his career in 1984 at the Institute of computer science of the Jagiellonian university, leaving in 1984 for two year systems administrator contract in the International center for theoretical physics in Trieste, Italy. Upon return, he commenced work for a system integrator as a director responsible for software development and consultancy services. At that time he was also actively involved in building internet in Polland. His career in telecommunications started in 1996, when he joined Netia Telekom s.a. as a director of information technologies. Since 1997 he worked as director of information management and service development department in ERA GSM. He run a department of over 200 people delivering full system support and new product development to the organisation. In 2001 Mr. Heller was the president and CEO of ELNET - ELEKTRIM'S fixed telephony subsidiary. |
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| Mateu Hernández |
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 | | Current post: Barcelona Activa: Assistant Director
Graduated in Law.
Master in Public Policy for the Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona and The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.
Give lessons in master "The City" of the University of Barcelona and in Master of Public Policy.
Co-ordinates the "Economic empowerment commission" in the Barcelona Strategic Plan.Keywords: Barcelona, knowledge society, Entrepreneurs, employment, economic promotion, local development. |
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| Doulgas Holmes |
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 | | Douglas Holmes is author of the book, "eGov: e-Business Strategies for Government", and writer of numerous case studies, corporate white papers, reports and articles on public sector IT issues. He is a member of the OECD's working group of e-government experts, editor of Microsoft's global newsletter for government, and columnist for the IDG publication, CIO Government's Review. From 1992-96, Holmes was editorial director of UK-based Government Group Publications, publisher of Government Computing magazine. Holmes has lived and worked in France, UK, Romania, Hong Kong and his native Canada. He currently resides in Paris, on the road and in cyberspace at: www.dougholmes.com. |
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| Gareth Hughes |
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| | Prof. Gareth Hughes holds degrees in Economics, in Econometrics & Statistics, and in Information Technology. He was the founding Director of Liverpool Business Schoo and subsequently became an Executive Director at Liverpool John Moores University with responsibility for the Division of Arts & Professional Studies and for the university's computing, network and management information systems. He became involved in regional development within the Objective 1 Merseyside region and was responsible for a number of large ICT projects. He was a founding member of the Regional IS Steering Committee of the North West of England, co-authored the region's IS strategy documen, and was author of its first IS Action Plan. He was a founding member of the IRISI Network Management Committee and became Secretary General of the Network in 1996. Since the end of 1997, he has been a freelance consultant working in the field of IS strategy development. In this capacity he has underrtaken various assignments for the European Commission (Thematic Evaluation of the Structural Funds, Guide to Transnationality in the EQUAL Community Initiative etc.), coordinated a number of inter-regional projects, acts as Chief Executive of eris@, and has provided consultancy support and advice to a number of regions. |
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| Tomaž Kalin |
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 | | Tomaž Kalin, Ph.D., a university-certified engineer, was born in 1936 and began his professional path at the Jožef Stefan Institute where, soon after graduating in technical physics in 1962, he met one of the first computer scientists in Slovenia and worked with him in the processing of experimental data. Soon thereafter he joined a group that, within the framework of the JSI, established the Republic Computer Centre with two large CDC computers, where he worked on systems analysis and the measurement of computer capacity at the centre. In the mid 1970s he began to participate in a working group that planned and constructed the first international research-oriented computer network in the world, the European Informatics Network. From 1977 to 1978 he was the assistant director of this project (COST 11) in the National Physical Laboratory in Great Britain. From 1981 to 1984 he lead the COST 11bis European project in the area of computer communication, with an office in the European Union's Joint Research Centre (JRC) in northern Italy.
In 1984 he was chosen as director of the Jožef Stefan Institute and he performed this function until 1992. He had already been lecturing in postgraduate topics in computer networks at the Faculty for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science before his departure to Italy and from 1984 to 1992 he lectured on various graduate and postgraduate topics in computer science and computer communication at the same faculty. In 1992 he accepted an offer from the European Association of Academic and Research Computer Networks and, as General Secretary, headed the secretariat and organisation, headquartered in Amsterdam, until 1996. He was a member of the board of directors of this organisation for two terms and in November 2000 he was elected one of its vice-presidents. In January 2001 he was named State Secretary for Information Infrastructure in the Ministry of Information Society, Government of Slovenia. |
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| Dušan Keber |
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 | | Dušan Keber, Minister of Health, Government of Republic of Slovenia, graduated in medicine at the Medical School in Ljubljana in 1972 and specialised in internal medicine in 1978. He completed his PhD in 1982, since 1990 he has been a full professor at the Medical School in Ljubljana, as well as a Senior Health Councillor since 1995. Between 1990 and 1995, he was the Head of Internal Medicine at the Medical School in Ljubljana. He was president of the Health Council (1988 to 1991), a member of the Health Council (1992 - 2000), a member of the Council of Science and Technology (1994 to 1998), and a member of the Council of Higher Education (from 1993 to 1998). He has participated in leading a number of professional associations at home and abroad. Between 1988 and 1991, he was also a member of the Human Rights Committee.
Professionally, he took part in the shaping of the protocol for dealing with arteriosclerosis, arterial and venal thrombosis and the rehabilitation of heart patients. In addition to his responsibilities relating to graduate students of medicine, he has also supervised a number of post-graduate students. He spends a lot of his time trying to enlighten the general public. With regard to research, he has contributed new findings in the area of the physiology of dissolving blood clots. He is the author or co-author of more than 400 bibliographical units, of which 35 articles were published in the most prominent foreign professional reviews, and of more than 50 popular articles, two technical manuals and numerous collections of papers. His writing has been quoted abroad more than 200 times. He is a reviewer for four important international journals in the area of thrombosis. He has also made an important contribution to the reform of graduate and post-graduate medicine study, to the introduction of professional verification of tertiary health institutions, to the verification of the professional work of doctors, to the establishment of biblio-metrical criteria for the assessment of research work, to the classification of drugs and to the classification of the health service. In recent years, he has also made an important contribution to the financing of hospitals.
He has received three awards, among them the OraĎen award for the best student at the Medical School. He has received two Prešeren student awards for his research work and with colleagues, two Boris Kidrič fund awards. In 1994 he was decorated with the Ambassador of Science title of the RS. |
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| Michał Kleiber |
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 | | Michał Kleiber - minister of science, chairman of the State Committee for Scientific Research, Polland. Born in Warsaw on 23 January 1946, he graduated from the Civil Engineering Faculty of Warsaw University of Technology and the Faculty of Mathematics, Mechanics and Informatics of Warsaw University. In 1989, he became a full professor. Long associated with the Institute of Basic Technical Problems of the Polish Academy of Sciences, he became its director in 1995. He is a chairman of the Board of Directors of the Scientific Institutions of the Polish Academy of Sciences and a member of the Central Commissions for Scholarly Degrees and Scientific Titles. In his research he has dealt i.a. with the application of modern information methods in scientific research, technology and medicine. The author of nearly 100 scientific papers and six books devoted to computer methods, he is editor-in-chief of the scientific journal 'Arcanes of Computational Methods in Engineering'. Married. Interests: skiing and tennis. |
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| Aleksandra Kornhauser |
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 | | Professor of Chemistry, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Director, International Centre for Chemical Studies
Research in chemistry of natural products and development of information methods. Published over 200 papers and twenty books. Leader of university-industry projects (EU-Tempus, US- EPA, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNDP, WB). Member of Academia Europaea, the World Academy of Science and Arts, and the Third World Academy of Science. Received prestigeous Slovenian, French, US and Australian awards for research and education, and the Honda Prize 1999 for contribution to the advancement of methods for multi-disciplinary synthesis of knowledge, supporting the development and application of eco-technologies. |
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| Erkki Liikanen |
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 | | On 16 September 1999, Mr. Erkki Liikanen was appointed as Member of the European Commission responsible for enterprise and information society. Prior to his current appointment, Mr. Liikanen served (from 1995 to 1999) as Member of the European Commission, responsible for budget issues, personnel and internal administration. From 1990 - 1994 Mr. Liikanen was the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary from Finland to the European Union. During that period Finland negotiated the Accession to the European Union. Mr. Liikanen was elected to the Finnish Parliament in 1972 at the age of 21. He served there until his appointment at Foreign Office in 1990. From 1987 to 1990 he was Minister of Finance of Finland. From 1976 to 1979 Mr. Liikanen was a Member of the Supervisory Board of Televa corporation. He then chaired the Supervisory Board of Outokumpu Corporation (1983 - 1988). Mr. Liikanen was Vice-Chairman of the Parliamentary Trustees of the Bank of Finland in 1983 - 1987 (also the decision-making body of the Finnish National Fund for Research and Development (Sitra). In addition, he was a Member of the Science and Technology Policy Council of Finland in 1987 - 1990.
Mr. Liikanen has a Masters degree in political science specializing in economics from the University of Helsinki, Finland. Mr. Liikanen is fluent in English, French and Swedish, Finnish being his mother tongue.Mr. Liikanen was born on 19 September 1950. He is married and has two daughters. |
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| Dan Lloyd |
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 | | Dan is currently the Senior Manger of Vodafone Group Public Policy, which coordinates global public policy issues throughout Vodafone's 28 operating companies. He is primarily tasked with the development and coordination of public policy initiatives in international institutions including the International Telecommunication Union, the World Trade Organisation and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. Dan was formerly a lawyer at leading Asia-Pacific corporate, communications and technology law firm, Gilbert + Tobin, where he acted for a wide range of communications clients in fixed, wireless and data markets before regulators and competition authorities in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Japan in major regulatory reviews, and in relation to mergers and acquisitions. Much of his work has concentrated on the digital divide and the development implications of communications technologies, including universal service schemes. He has advised clients on universal service issues in many jurisdictions and is currently coordinating the development of Vodafone's global public policy approach to these issues. Prior to joining Gilbert + Tobin, Dan worked as a researcher, adviser and speechwriter for former Australian Attorney-General, Foreign Minister and Minister for Transport and Communications, Gareth Evans. He was previously an Intern at both the International Labour Organisation in Manila (where he co-authored the ILO report "Corporate Social Responsibility and Working Conditions in the Philippines") and the Australian Law Reform Commission in Sydney. Dan holds honours degrees in Arts (History) and Law from the University of Sydney and is currently completing a Masters of Law and Management. |
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| Nick Locket |
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 | | Nick Lockett is head of the Stanbrook & Hooper European and UK Technology Practice. He originally qualified as a biologist and then trained in the finance industry where he specialised in investment through bio-tech, environmental and computer/IT issues. Later he decided to re-qualify as a barrister to specialise in the legal side of these issues and practiced in England & Wales until 1998 at which time he transferred to be a solicitor so that he could provide a more direct service to his e-commerce and e-communications clients. Member of the English and Flemish Bars.He has sat on various UK government internet advisory panels and is currently advisor to various governments internationally on e-commerce, e-communication and e-crime (including the European Community), mediation and arbitration. Involved in a number of cases involving competition and e-commerce compliance issues in front of European Commission bodies. Reviewer of legislation and government funded projects. Advisor to many e-commerce companies and venture capitalists concerning all aspects of E-Commerce, cyberinsurance, on-line intellectual Property protection and infringement, Internet electronic payment mechanisms etc. Advisor to many e-commerce companies and venture capitalists concerning all aspects of E-Commerce, cyberinsurance, on-line intellectual Property protection and infringement, Internet electronic payment mechanisms etc. He travels extensively around Europe, the Balkans and the former Soviet Union . Nick is 40 years old and lives in North London. He is single for which he entirely blames his career although he is striving to become human (you know, honest, sincere, faithful - all the things lawyers aren't supposed to be). He hopes one day to settle down to a normal life and to be able to afford a hair transplant. Being British he is useless at learning languages and has been trying to learn German and French for years without much success (for which he blames the success of American commerce and the resulting spread of English) - he has done much for world peace as he recently took up trying to learn Russian which immediately resulted in "a unique thaw in US-Russian relations". When unchained from his desk he goes to the Gym, horse-rides, motor-races, Skis (badly), swims, and parachutes (occasionally for charity although many believe his staff are behind this opportunity to push him out of a plane whenever they can). Interests: ballet, Opera, classical music, film, travel, fashion (not his!). |
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| Włodzimierz Marciński |
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| | Current post: Polish Mission to the European Union.Włodzimierz Marciński studied mathematics at the Warsaw's University, graduated from the Warsaw's Main School of Economy (Organisation of IT Projects). Long associated with the Institute of Mathematical Machines in Warsaw. In 1973-1985 he was programmer, project manager, computer system analyst, author of plenty of computer applications mainly in economy and state administration. In 1982-1985 he was IT manager in private sector company. From 1986 he is working for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1993 he was appointed as plenipotentiary of the minister, director at the Department of Computer Technology and Telecommunication. From 1998 he is a counsellor at the Polish Mission to the European Union in Brussels in charge of IT and telecommunication issues in negotiations. In 1995-1998 he was a member of the team of advisers of Prime Minister. From 2001 he is a member of Information Society Forum in Poland. He is the author of papers and articles on IT and Information Society issues. |
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| Juris Mikelsons |
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| | Graduated from the faculty of physics and mathematics at the University of Latvia (1959)
Works at the Faculty of physics and mathematics (since 1959)
PhD in physics (1968), professor (1988)
Established 2 divisions ( Electrodynamics and continuous medium mechanics (1970); Project management (1992) )
Established 2 computer centres at the University (1980; 1988)
Developed information systems for RCC (since 1970)
Among authors of National Program "Informatics" (1997)
Established and managed first IT council in ministry of Education and Science (1996)
Elected chairman of the committee of Youth, Education and Sports RCC (1997-2001)
Chairman of the ICT committee of Union of municipalities (since 1997) |
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| Dan Nica |
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| | Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Romania.
Born on July 2, 1960, married, one child.
Education: Electronics and Telecommunications Faculty, Iasi.
Professional Activity: 1985-1996 - Engineer - the Galati District Telecommunications Board. 1991-1996 - Chairman of the Galati District Telecommunications Board. 1996 - Deputy within the Romanian Parliament and member of the Parliamentary Commission for Industry and Services. Has initiated the Law for the support of small and medium enterprises.
Academic Activity: 1993-1996 - telecommunications and data transmission associated professor to the "Dunarea de Jos' University. Co-holder of three invention patents, one of which rewarded with silver medal in Brussels. Degrees and diplomas in communications and management issued in France, Austria, Sweden and Canada.
Political Activity: Since december 2000 - Minister of Communications and Information Technology. 1996-2000 - PDSR Deputy Member of the PDSR Central Executive Office.Deputy Chairman of the Galati District PDSR Organisation.
Foreign Languages: English, French.
International Conferences: he contributed to a number of international conferences across Europe. |
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| Arvo Ott |
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 | | Head of Department of State Information Systems.
Ministry of Transport and Communications, Estonia.
Arvo Ott was born in Tallinn on 1954, January 13. He was graduating Tallinn Technical University Department of Electrical Engineering in 1977. From 1976 to 1990 he has employed by Institute of Cybernetics - Head of Department of Speech Technology. Arvo Ott has 16 scientific papers. Candidate of Technical Sciences (PhD) from 1987.
From 1993 he is Head of Department of State Information Systems of State Chancellery and from 2000 the same position in Ministry of Transport and Communications of Estonia. He is responsible on coordination of state information systems. Member of Estonian Informatics Council, Baltic Council of Ministers IT Committee, Estonian representative of International Council for IT in Government Administration (ICA) and JHLC. |
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| Umberto Paolucci |
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 | | Vice President, Microsoft Corporation Corporate and Government Strategy, EMEA.
Umberto Paolucci, born in Ravenna, Italy in 1944, graduated in 1969 in Electrical Engineering at the University of Bologna, Italy. After serving in the Italian Army as Officer of the Technical Corps, Paolucci began his technical career as a professor at High Technical School in Italy. Prior to joining Microsoft, Paolucci worked for Hewlett-Packard Co. as a systems analyst and then at General Automation (Anaheim, CA) in a variety of management positions. Paolucci joined Microsoft in 1985 as general manager in charge of establishing and running Microsoft's Italian subsidiary. He then went on to become the regional director of the Southern European region (1994), before being promoted to Vice President of the Europe, Middle East and Asia (EMEA) region for Microsoft Corp (1997/1998), with responsibility of operations in Southern Europe (Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece), Switzerland, Austria, the Nordic region (Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway and the Baltic countries), Holland, Belgium and Luxemburg, and the South African region (including sub-Saharan countries and Indian Ocean islands).
In 1998 he received a honoris causa degree in information technology and business statistics from the University of Bologna. In 2002, as Vice President of Microsoft Corporation, Paolucci took the responsibility of EMEA's strategies in the Corporate and Government markets. He is active as a Board Member in several companies. |
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| Plamen Petrov |
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 | | Minister of Transport and Communications since 24 July 2001.
Born November 10th, 1966 in Haskovo, Bulgaria.
Education: 1985 English Language School, Sofia, 1987 - 1991 University of National and World Economy, Sofia - International Economic Relations, 1991 Bachelor of Economics, Northeast Missouri State University, MD, USA, 1992 Master of Economics, University of Missouri, MO, USA, 1994 Master of International Management, Thunderbird - The American Gaduate School of International Management, Arizona, USA, 1999 Chartered Financial Analyst.
World experience: 1994 Credit analyst, Southshore Bank of Chicago, 1995 Institutional Sales - Trader, European Emerging Equity Markets, 1998 BulInvest Inc., President - an investment Bulgarian public and private equity for US clients, 1999 Cable Bulgaria - Founder, Director Investments and Control.
HOBBY: Pop and classical music. Sports: extreme skiing, mountain biking, scuba diving and windsurfing
Languages: English, Russian. Civil status: Married, one boy. |
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| Andrew Pinder |
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 | | As e-Envoy, Andrew is leading the drive to get the UK online, ensuring that the country, its citizens and businesses derive the maximum benefit from the knowledge economy. He co-ordinates the government strategy, ensuring e-access and training, galvanising UK business and driving the e-agenda through government. He reports directly to the Prime Minister and works alongside the e-Minister, Patricia Hewitt who has overall responsibility for the Government's e-agenda.
Andrew has a long and distinguished career in both the private and public sectors. After 18 years in the Inland Revenue, where he became Director of IT, Andrew moved to the private sector, becoming Director of Operations and Technology at Prudential Corporation, before joining Citibank Investment bank as head of European Operations and Technology. After performing other roles in Citibank, including spells in New York, continental Europe and Dublin, he was engaged in a number of new technology-related start-ups and as a partner in a small venture capital firm before being appointed e-Envoy in 2001. |
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| Peter Ponický |
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 | | Minister of Education, Slovak Republic since 13. april 2002.
Born 14 July 1956 in Lučenec, Marital Status: married, one children.
Language knowledge: English, Russian, Hungarian.
Education, 1976 - 1981,University of Transportation, Žilina 1983 - 1986, PhD. (Faculty of Machinery and Electrical, Engineering of the University of Transportation).
Carrer: 1982 - 1986, University of Transportation in Žilina first as an assistant at the Department of Mechanical Technology. 1987 The head of Fatigue Laboratory of the Aircraft Engine Plant of Považské strojárne. 1988 - 1997 Lectured at the Department of Control of Technological Processes and at the Department of Electronics University of Transportation, Žilina. 1997 - 2001 University of Trenčín. 2001 - 2002 Institute of Technology and Control of Production at the University of Jan Evangelista Purkyně (UJEP) in Ústí nad Labem. |
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| Mel Proudfoot |
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 | | Mel Proudfoot has worked in Government business for over 25 years. Including: military service with the Royal Air Force, in communications and intelligence roles; with a Defence Prime Contractor, Ferranti Computer Systems, involved in the production of command and control systems; with Digital Equipment, in technical, sales and marketing roles in the Defence and Law/Justice business areas.
Since 1989, he has been specialising in the International Defence business, including NATO and Partner for Peace Nations, working on projects in EU, EFTA, Central Eastern Europe and Middle East
Countries, including U.K., Netherlands, Germany, France, Scandinavia, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Ukraine, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey.
He joined Oracle eight years ago, to create the Oracle NATO global account team, and since 1997 has been a director in the Oracle Public Sector organisation, responsible for International and National Defence, Law, Justice and Public Safety business within Europe, Middle East and Africa. Since June 2001 Industry leader for EMEA public services, responsible for Government, Higher Education and Research, Defence, Law Enforcement and Public Safety, Justice and Healthcare. |
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| Tomáš Renčín |
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| | The Union of Towns and Communities of the Czech Republic
Accomplishments:
1987 Charles University in Prague - the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
1988 doctor´s degree in natural science
Professional experience: an entrepreneur in the area of software development.Since 1991: in 1991 establishes his own company TRIADA Ltd. (software development; development , distribution and servicing of software equipment for towns and municipalities). Since 1996: has been editing the periodical "Municipality and finance". Since 1998: in 1998 elected as a deputy mayor for the Town Council of the town of Měšice. Since 2000: in 2000 elected as a Chairman of the Committee for Information Systems of Towns and Communities. Since 2001: in 2001 appointed as a member of the Czech Republic`s Government Council for State Information Policy. |
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| Eike Röhling |
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 | | Studied law and economics at Heidelberg, Berlin, Münster, Paris
Assistant Professor University Münster;
Doctorate in European Economic Law Münster
1971 Federal Ministry of Economics, Bonn: German and European Competition Policy;
1978 German OECD Mission in Paris (Energy Policy, Airbus)
1983 Federal Ministry of Economics: Energy Policy; Director Oil and Gas industries;
1991 "New German States"; Member of different Supervisory Boards
Since 1997 Director General Technology- and Innovation Policy;Information Society |
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| Carillo Rovere |
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 | | C. Rovere - MSc. in Chemistry-Physics - after a 15-year career in primary telecoms and semiconductors industries - in 1987 joined the EIB, where has carried out several project appraisals, as Technical Advisor, in sectors such as electronics, R&D and telecommunications; now heading the Telecommunication & IT Division. |
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| Peter Scott |
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 | | Peter Scott is Head of the Unit responsible for development of the Regulatory Framework for electronic communications, within the European Commission's Directorate General for the Information Society. This framework includes the new EU directives for electronic communications networks and services, which will be applied from mid 2003, and associated regulatory measures. He has been with the European Commission in Brussels since 1990, prior to which he spent 18 years in the telecommunications and information technology sectors in the UK.
He is a Chartered Engineer, with a BSc and PhD in electronics. |
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| Paul Skehan |
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 | | Born in Dublin, 3 May 1961.
Education: MBA, magna cum laude, Mercer University/UBI 1998-2000. Various and many management development courses, on a wide range of issues and skills. Bachelor's Degree in Commerce, University College Dublin, 1978-1981.
Experience : February 1997 - present Deputy Secretary General, Eurochambres (Association of European Chambers of Commerce & Industry). August 1988 - February 1997, Chief Executive, CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE OF IRELAND. November 1981 - August 1988, Project Executive, IRISH INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY. Also (at various times): Chimney sweep, proof reader, house painter, grape picker, seller of In Dublin magazine, merchandiser. |
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| Paul J. Siegelbaum |
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| | Paul Siegelbaum, a US national, assumed his current position as Director of the Private and Financial Sector Development Department in 1999. His department's responsibilities include privatization, private sector development, finanical sector development and knowledge economy issues for 29 countries in the former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe. Prior to joining the Bank, Mr. Siegelbaum worked for two years with the Securities and Exchange Commission and spent eight years in the private practice of law, with Debevoise & Plimpton in New York. Mr. Siegelbaum has written a number of articles on financial sector reform, corruption and privatization and has served as an adjunct faculty member at the Georgetown University Law Center and the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, John Hopkins University. |
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| Baudilio Tomé-Muguruza |
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 | | Date of birth: León. May 12, 1962.
Current position: Secretary of State for Telecommunications and the Information Society.
1998-2000. Director of the Budget Office, Prime Minister's Office.
1996-1998. Director of Economic Affairs, Prime Minister's Office.
Degree in Economics. Degree in Law. (U. Complutense de Madrid). Masters in Law and International Taxation. Harvard University (USA).
Finance Inspector and Senior Official Auditor.
He was assistant Lecturer of Public Finance at Universidad Complutense and assistant Lecturer at the School of Public Finance(Ministry of Finance).
Member Board of Advisors to Fundación para el Análisis de Estudios Sociales (FAES)
Member of the Editorial Board of Nueva Revista de la Política, las Ciencias y las Artes.
He speaks fluent English. |
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| Paul Verhoef |
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 | | Paul Verhoef, Head of Unit International Aspects, Directorate for Communication Services, Regulatory and Policy Framework. Nationality: Dutch
P. Verhoef has worked most of his career in the telecommunications policy and Information Society policy area. He started as associate expert for the ITU in the Pacific, and subsequently worked in EUTELSAT and ESA. He moved to the EC to initiate the EU satellite communications policy, and became responsible for mobile, satellite and frequency policy. From 1997-1999 he was Member of the Cabinet and personal advisor to Commissioner Bangemann in the area of telecoms and Information Society policies. At present he is responsible for the interntional policy matters in DG Information Society. |
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| Robert Verrue |
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 | | Robert Verrue has been since January 1996 the Director General responsible for the Information Society at the European Commission. He is in charge of the European policy for Telecoms liberalisation as well as of the EU RD programme (IST programme with a budget of 3,6 Billions EUR (over 4 years)) for Information and Communication technologies.
Born in 1947, and after studying at the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce et d'Administration des Entreprises in Lille, at the College of Europe (Bruges) and at INSEAD (Fontainebleau), he was appointed assistant at INSEAD, in the Department "Economic Environment". He started his career in the private sector in 1972-73 as a financial manager with SSIH (Switzerland). In 1973, he joined the European Commission as member of the Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs. In 1981, he was appointed Member of the Cabinet of Vice-President F.-X. Ortoli. His main responsibilities covered financial and economic affairs, borrowing and lending, restructuring policy in the steel and iron industry. In 1985, he was appointed Head of Division for "Co-ordination of monetary policies in the Community" within Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs. In July 1988, he was promoted Director responsible for International Affairs, Industrial Policy and the Co-ordination of the Internal Market Programme within Directorate General for the Internal Market and Industrial Affairs. In September 1993, he was appointed Deputy Director General responsible for relations with Central European countries and CIS Republics within the Directorate General for External Relations. In January 1996, he took up his current responsibilities as Director General for the Information Society. |
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| Oktay Vural |
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 | | Minister, Ministry of Transportation since 31 July 2001.
Member of the Parliament: Izmir district; since 18 April 1999.
Experience:
Head of Parliamentary Committee, Committee on Industry, Trade, Energy, Natural Resources, Science and Technology. Chairman of the Sub-Committee on East-West Economic Co-Operation and Convergence, NATO Parliamentary Assembly.
Member of NATO Parliamentary Assembly, Economics and Security Committee.
Adviser to the Ministry, Ministry of Industry and Trade. Chairman and General Manager, Turkish Fertilizer Industry Corporation (TÜGSAŞ). Adviser to the Ministry, Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, President's Office, Member of Supervisory Council. Chairman and General Manager, BOTAŞ Petroleum Pipeline Corporation.
Education: Ph.D. (1987) and MS (1983), Dokuz Eylül University. Doctoral Program, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School 1984-85. BS (1979), Istanbul University.
Married, 2 children. 45 years old. Born in Diyarbakir. |
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| Antanas Zabulis |
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 | | Antanas Zabulis (M.Sc.) is President and CEO of Omnitel, the leading wireless mobile communications operator in Lithuania since October 2000. He graduated from Vilnius University faculty of physics, School of Business in Lithuania and BOSSARD University in Paris. From 1991 to 1994 worked as a Consultant/Senior Consultant for BOSSARD CONSULTANTS. Before entering mobile communications, Antanas Zabulis worked in the oil industry for six years, starting as MD in Lithuania for Norwegian oil company Statoil, later as Expansion Director Statoil Baltic States and Country Manager For Statoil in Lithuania. From 1999 Antanas Zabulis has spent two years on the international assignment as Senior adviser in Statoil Head Office in Stavanger (Norway ) in Oil Trading and supply department.
Antanas Zabulis also is a member of Knowledge Council lead by President of the Republic of Lithuania, Chairman of Board of Lithuanian Development Agency, Board member of Lithuanian - American institute. |
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