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Marc Rotenberg is Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in Washington, DC. He teaches information privacy law at Georgetown University Law Center and has testified before Congress on many issues, including access to information, encryption policy, computer security, and communications privacy. He has served on several national and international advisory panels, including the expert panels on Cryptography Policy and Computer Security for the OECD and the Legal Experts on Cyberspace Law for UNESCO. He is editor of The Privacy Law Sourcebook and co-editor (with Phil Agre) of Technology and Privacy: The New Landscape (MIT Press 1998). He is a graduate of Harvard College and Stanford Law School. He is the winner of the Norbert Wiener Award for Professional and Social Responsibility, the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology Distinguished Service Award, and a finalist for the World Technology Awards in Law and Policy.

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Paul Margie is Spectrum and International Legal Advisor to Commissioner Michael Copps. Mr. Margie previously served as Senior Commerce Counsel for Senator John D. Rockefeller IV (D-WV). His responsibilities included coordinating policies and staff on matters related to the Senate Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee. Mr. Margie is also an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University, where he teaches a course entitled Law in Cyberspace. He previously served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at George Washington University. Prior to joining Senator Rockefeller's staff, Mr. Margie was an attorney with the Washington D.C. law firm of Wiley, Rein & Fielding, where he was a member of the communications and technology law practice groups.

ICANN and Internet Governance

Sarah Andrews is Research Director at the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). Her work at EPIC focuses on consumer privacy issues and international developments in Internet policy making. She is a regular speaker at national and international conferences on these and other issues. She has served on advisory committees to the American Bar Association (ABA) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD. She is the editor of the Consumer Law Sourcebook 2000: Electronic Commerce and the Global Economy (EPIC 2000) and Privacy and Human Rights 2001: An International Survey of Privacy Laws and Developments (EPIC 2001). She holds a Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) and a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree from University College Cork, Ireland.

Michael Froomkin is a Professor at the University of Miami School of Law in Coral Gables, Florida, specializing in Internet Law and Administrative Law. He is a member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London and serves on the Advisory Boards of the BNA Electronic Information Policy & Law Report and on the Editorial Board of Information, Communication & Society. He served as a member of the "Panel of Experts" of the World Intellectual Property Institute's Internet Domain Name Process. He is also a director of Out2.com, an Internet startup, and a founder editor of ICANNWatch.org. Professor Froomkin writes primarily about the electronic commerce, electronic cash, privacy, Internet governance, the regulation of cryptography, and U.S. constitutional law. Before entering teaching, Prof. Froomkin practiced international arbitration law in the London office of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering. He clerked for Judge Stephen F. Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit, and Chief Judge John F. Grady of the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois. Prof. Froomkin received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he served as Articles Editor of both the Yale Law Journal and the Yale Journal of International Law.

Hans K. Klein is Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has also served on the faculty of the Institute of Public Policy at George Mason University. Klein's research interests include: the development of large scale systems, federal technology policy, the politics of innovation, Intelligent Transportation Systems, public access television, Internet governance, and on-line democracy. He received a Ph.D. in 1996 from MIT's Dept. of Political Science and Program in Technology, Management and Policy; an M.S. in 1993 from MIT's Technology and Policy Program; and a B.S.E. in 1983 from Princeton University's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He has also studied at the Technical University of Munich. Klein worked for five years in the European software industry, for such firms as Siemens (Munich), Schlumberger (Paris), and Olivetti (Milan). He has consulted for the U.S. Department of Transportation and the National Academy of Engineering. Klein is active in Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR) and in 1999 was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors. He is also a member of the Internet Society, the Society for the Social Study of Science, and the Alliance for Community Media.

James Love has worked for the Center for Study of Responsive Law (CSRL) since 1990. The Center was started by Ralph Nader in 1968. Since 1995 he has been the Director of the Consumer Project on Technology. I direct the Consumer Project on Technology (CPTech). CPTech is active in a number of issue areas, including intellectual property, telecommunications, privacy and electronic commerce, plus a variety of projects relating to antitrust enforcement and policy. Mr. Love is the co-chair of the Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD) special group on Intellectual Property, the former co-chair of the TACD working group on E-Commerce, a member of the MSF Working Group on Intellectual Property and the MSF Working Group on Drugs for Neglected Diseases, and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development Working Group on Access to Human Genetic Resources. He was previously Senior Economist for the Frank Russell Company, a large pension fund consulting firm, a Lecturer at Rutgers University, and a researcher on international finance at Princeton University. Mr. Love received a Masters of Public Administration from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, and a Masters in Public Affairs from the Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Lunchtime Presentation

Seán Ó Siochrú is a writer, researcher and activist in international media and communications issues. As consultant and advisor he works extensively in Europe, Africa and Asia, for the EU, IFAD, ITU, IDRC, UNDP, UNECA and others. He is active in NGOs, as a co-founder of the Platform for Communication Rights and joint coordinator of the CRIS Campaign (Communication Rights in the Information Society: www.crisinfo.org) which aims to ensure that the UN's World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS: Geneva 2003) focuses on human rights and communication needs. He also advises the Civil Society Division of the WSIS' Secretariat on civil society participation. He has published widely, his most recent book (with Bruce Girard) being Global Media Governance, A Beginner's Guide, Rowman & Littlefield, May 2002.

Surveillance and Censorship

David Banisar is a Research Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is affiliated with the Harvard Information Infrastructure Project, the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and the Center for Business and Government. He is currently researching and writing on global developments relating to access to information and privacy as a Policy Fellow for the Open Society Institute. He has worked in the field of information policy for over eleven years. He is Deputy Director of Privacy International, a UK-based human rights group and was one of the founders of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. He is also a consultant to many NGOs and other organizations on information issues including freedom of information, privacy, data protection, internet security, electronic commerce, consumer protection and free speech. He is the author of numerous studies, books, and articles on privacy, surveillance and data protection, including The Electronic Privacy Papers (John Wiley and Sons, 1997) and two major studies of international developments in information law: Privacy and Human Rights: An International Study of Privacy Laws and Practices (1998, 1999, 2000 editions) which review the privacy, data protection, surveillance and FOIA laws and practices in 55 countries and co-authored Encryption and Liberty (1999, 2000 editions), which review the encryption policies of 100 countries. He is currently a columnist for SecurityFocus.com and his columns regularly also appear at BusinessWeek.com.

Until commencing doctoral studies at the University of Toronto's Law School, Tracy Cohen was a senior lecturer at the LINK Centre, Graduate School of Public and Development Management, Wits University, Johannesburg, where she has been researching and teaching telecommunications law and policy in both the business and law schools. Prior to joining LINK Ms Cohen was an Assistant to Council at the Telecommunications Regulator in South Africa. Ms Cohen has a Masters in Law (LLM) from Wits University focusing on the regulation of content on the Internet. Immediately prior to coming to Toronto, Ms Cohen was a visiting graduate research fellow at the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI) at Columbia University in New York, where she focused on comparative policy on convergence and regulation. Using South Africa as a case study, Ms Cohen's doctoral research is concerned with trade in telecommunication services, development and regional integration in the Southern African Development Community (SADC). She is currently collaborating on the production of a Handbook of South African Telecommunications Law. Ms Cohen also advises the Internet Service Provider's Association of South Africa on regulatory issues and is an executive committee member of the Freedom of Expression Defence Fund. (FXDF).

Cédric Laurant is a Policy Fellow with the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). He concentrates on international privacy issues in general, and comparative policy and legal aspects of European and US privacy regimes. His recent work has focused on video surveillance in Washington, DC, telecommunications and privacy laws in the European Union, and the Council of Europe Cyber-crime Convention. He is a member of the editorial committee of the Journal des Tribunaux - Droit européen, and holds a licence en droit (J.D.) from the University of Louvain (Belgium); a Master of Laws from Columbia Law School; a European Master of Arts in Science, Technology and Society, and a Diploma in Print and Broadcast Journalism.

Meryem Marzouki is a senior researcher in Computer Science with the French National Public Research Center (CNRS). After more than 10 years spent in the Microelectronics field, since January 2002 her research interests have been in the impact of Internet developments on public policies, especially with regards to governance and democracy. As part of her volunteering activities, she is the co-founder and president of the French NGO IRIS (Imaginons un réseau Internet solidaire), created in October 1997. IRIS' primary objectives are the promotion of a public service infrastructure for permanent connectivity to the Internet; free speech and privacy; and a non-commercial Internet. IRIS is a member of the Global Internet Liberty Campaign (GILC, www.gilc.org), a founding member of the newly launched international association European Digital Rights (EDRi, www.edri.org) and of a French NGO and Trade-Unions Network (R@S, www.ras.eu.org). Meryem Marzouki has authored several IRIS reports and articles and has given many talks at national, European and international conferences. She has been participating in many institutional hearings at national and European levels and she is a member of the European Commission Working Group on a Safer Internet. In February 1996, Meryem Marzouki also co-founded the first French Internet users association.

Alberto Escudero Pascual has been doctoral student at the Royal Institute of Technology since January 2000. He has been consultant in security and privacy world wide since 1996. He received his Diploma Degree (M.Sc.) in Telecommunication Engineering from the Polytechnical University of Madrid in the area of renewable energies in 1998. Between 1998-1999 he has been doing research at the Bioengineering and Telemedicine Group (UPM) in low cost internet access in developing countries and at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC). In June 2001 he obtained a Tek Lic. Degree in the subject of location privacy in mobile internet. During the last ten years his research interests include wireless internet access in developing countries, community networks, privacy and security in mobile internet, privacy-enhancing technologies and privacy threats in the next generation Internet. He is currently participating in different European Union Forums in the area of Cybercrime and Data Protection. In December 2001 he presented his Ph.D. Proposal titled: "Privacy in the next generation Internet: Data Protection in the context of European Union Policy".

The Future of the Public Domain

Julie Cohen is a Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center. Professor Cohen teaches and writes about intellectual property law and data privacy law, with particular focus on computer software and digital works and on the intersection of copyright, privacy, and the First Amendment in cyberspace. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. Prior to joining the Law Center Faculty in 1999, Professor Cohen was Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. She previously practiced with the San Francisco firm of McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, where she specialized in intellectual property litigation. She was law clerk to the Honorable Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Cindy Cohn is the Legal Director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. She is responsible for overseeing the EFF's overall legal strategy. EFF has been actively involved in nearly all areas where civil liberties are impacted online. EFF has focused in the past few years on the challenge to the constitutional rights presented by recent changes and broad application of intellectual property laws. In the aftermath of the attacks of September 11, 2001, EFF has returned to its roots, focusing on the issues of government surveillance and other traditional civil liberties online. In 2001, Ms. Cohn and the EFF were honored by the Editorial Board of Daily Journal as Lawyers of the Year. For 10 years prior to joining the EFF, Ms. Cohn was a civil litigator in private practice handling Internet-related cases, including domain name disputes, suits arising from unsolicited commercial e-mail (also known as SPAM), and challenges to government efforts to gather information from Internet Service Providers about their customers. Before starting private practice, she worked for a year at the United Nations Centre for Human Rights in Geneva Switzerland.

Abraham Drassinower B.A., M.A., Ph.D., LL.B. (Toronto), joined the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto in 1999 as an Assistant Professor. He held a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto (1993-1995) and lectured principally on political philosophy at York University (1993-1995) and at the University of Toronto (1995-1998). He served as a Law Clerk to Mr. Justice John C. Major of the Supreme Court of Canada (1998-1999). Professor Drassinower's interests include property, intellectual property, legal and political philosophy, critical theory, and psychoanalysis. He has published in the areas of charitable trusts and unjust enrichment.

Stuart Hamilton is a PhD student at the Royal School of Library and Information Science in Copenhagen, Denmark. His PhD, which is co-sponsored by the Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression (FAIFE) Committee of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), is examining the extent to which libraries can ensure free, unhampered and equal access to Internet-accessible information resources. He gained his Masters Degree in Library and Information Studies from University College London in 2001 where he specialised in Caribbean libraries, writing his thesis on the independent librarians of Cuba. Before moving to Denmark,Stuart worked in the United Kingdom public library service for 5 years, most notably in Brighton on the south coast, where he was involved in IT provision and Internet training for the public.

João Miguel Neves is one of the founders and vice-president of ANSOL, a Portuguese non-profit association dedicated to the promotion, development, research and study of Computing Freedom and its social, political philosophical, cultural, technical and scientific implications. In his day job he is a software developer and security specialist. His holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science.