Participant Biographies
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Robert Axelrod is the Walgreen Professor for the Study of Human Understanding at the University of Michigan in the Ford School of Public Policy and the Department of Political Science. He has a BA in Math from the University of Chicago (1964) and a PhD in Political Science from Yale (1969). He is best known of his work on the evolution of cooperation. His long term interests are in international security affairs and mathematical models of the social sciences. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the winner of a five year MacArthur Prize Fellowship, and a former President of the American Political Science Association. During 2014-15 he will serve as science advisor in the Department of State, possibly on political-military affairs including cyber issues.
Christopher Bronk is the Baker Institute fellow in information technology policy. He previously served as a career diplomat with the U.S. Department of State on assignments both overseas and in Washington, D.C. He covers a number of areas, including information security, policy informatics, broadband policy, and the militarization of cyberspace. He teaches on the intersection of computing and politics in Rice’s George R. Brown School of Engineering. Holding a Ph.D. from The Maxwell School of Syracuse University, Bronk also studied international relations at Oxford University and received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Gary Brown is Deputy Legal Advisor for the International Committee of the Red Cross, Regional Delegation for the United States and Canada. Prior to joining the ICRC, Gary served 24 years with the U.S. Air Force, culminating in his assignment as the first senior legal counsel for U.S. Cyber Command. He is a noted speaker on cyber operations law. His articles related to cyber warfare include “Easier Said Than Done: Legal Reviews of Cyber Weapons,” Journal of Law & National Security Policy (2014) (coauthor); “Why Iran Didn’t Admit Stuxnet Was an Attack,” Joint Forces Quarterly (2011); and “On the Spectrum of Cyberspace Operations,” Small Wars Journal (2012) (coauthor). He was the official U.S. observer during the drafting of the Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare (2013). He received his law degree at the University of Nebraska and an LL.M. in international law from Cambridge University.
Lieutenant General Edward C. Cardon was born in Texas, raised in California and was commissioned as an Engineer Officer from the United States Military Academy in 1982. LTG Cardon has commanded at every level from company through division. Prior to assuming command of the United States Army Cyber Command, he was the commander of the 2nd Infantry Division based in South Korea. His education includes a Bachelor’s of Science Degree from the United States Military Academy and two Master’s Degrees - one from the National War College and the other from the United States Naval Command and Staff College, both in National Security and Strategic Studies. Lieutenant General Cardon is married and has three children.
Professor Nazli Choucri is a Professor of Political Science, whose work focuses on international relations. she concentrates on sources and consequences of international conflict and violence. Professor Choucri is the Principal Investigator and Director of a multi-year multi-disciplinary collaborative research project of MIT and Harvard University on Explorations in Cyber International Relations. She is the architect and Director of the Global System for Sustainable Development (GSSD), a multi-lingual web-based knowledge networking system focusing on the multi-dimensionality of sustainability. Professor Choucri is the founding Editor of the MIT Press Series on Global Environmental Accord and general editor of the American Political Science Review. The author of eleven books and over 120 articles, Dr Choucri has been involved in research or advisory work for national and international agencies, and for a number or countries. She has been re-elected President of the Scientific Advisory Committee of UNESCO's Management of Social Transformation (MOST) Program.
Professor Ron Deibert is the Director of the Citizen Lab and Canada Centre for Global Security Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto. Author of Black Code: Surveillance, Privacy, and the Dark Side of the Internet (Random House: 2013). Founder of the OpenNet Initiative and Information Warfare Monitor. Co-PI and Author of the Ghostnet Cyber Espionage report.
With engineering, economics, and comparative complex organization theory/political science degrees, Professor-Dr. Chris C. Demchak is on the Executive Board of the Cyber Conflict Studies Association (CCSA) (Washington DC) and Co-Director, Center for Cyber Conflict Studies (C3S), U.S. Naval War College (Strategic Research Department). Her research addresses global cyberspace’ influences from a rising ‘Cyber Westphalia’ to the security of complex socio-technical-economic systems as globally shared, insecure substrates penetrating throughout the critical organizations of digitized democratic civil societies. Demchak focusses on systemic structural changes, comparative operational institutional learning, adversary/defensive use of systemic cybered tools, and systemic resilience against normal or adversary imposed surprise. She has taught international security studies, comparative organization theory, management information systems, and currently systemic cyber security and international/ national security structures. Recent works include Designing Resilience (2010, co-edited); Wars of Disruption and Resilience (2011, cybered conflict); and a new manuscript on Organizing for Cyber Security and Systemic Resilience.
Sue Eckert is Senior Fellow at the Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies at Brown University where she focuses on security and governance issues. She codirects an international research consortium on UN sanctions and collaborates with the Naval War College on cybered conflict and governance issues. She previously served in the Clinton Administration regulating dual-use exports and critical infrastructure, and was on National Academy of Sciences Committee on Deterring Cyberattacks,
Lieutenant General Robert Elder (USAF, retired) joined the George Mason University faculty as a research professor with the Volgenau School of Engineering following his retirement from the Air Force. He currently conducts research in the areas of command and control, cyber enterprise resiliency, electronic warfare, and the use of modeling to support national security decision-making. He also serves as a senior advisor to the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) as well as the Cyber Innovation Center in Louisiana. General Elder was the first commander of Air Force Network Operations and led the development of the cyberspace mission for the Air Force. He also served as the Commandant of the Air War College. He holds a Doctorate of Engineering from the University of Detroit.
Ryan Ellis writes and researches on topics related to cybersecurity, infrastructure politics, homeland security, and communication law and policy. Prior to joining the Belfer Center, Ryan was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) and served as a Project Manager at the University of California's Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC). He holds a Ph.D. in communication from the University of California, San Diego.
Martha Finnemore is a University Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University in Washington, DC. Her research focuses on global governance, international organizations, international norm dynamics, and social theory. She is the author of “Cultivating International Cyber Norms” in Kristin Lord and Travis Sharp, eds. America's Cyber Future: Security and Prosperity in the Information Age, Center for a New American Security, May 2011. http://www.cnas.org/node/6405
Dr. Stephanie Forrest is a Jefferson Science Fellow, spending her sabbatical at the U.S. Dept. of State where she works on communication and information policy. Her home institution is the University of New Mexico, where she is Regents Distinguished Professor of Computer Science. She is also a member of the Santa Fe Institute External Faculty.
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Sandro Gaycken is a trained philosopher with a doctorate in technology studies. He serves as adviser to the Foreign Minister of Germany on Cyber Foreign Policy in the Policy Planning Staff of the Federal Foreign Office, and he researches the connections of IT, security and society at the Institute of Computer Science at Freie Universität Berlin with a focus on cyber security. He consults for security institutions and policy-making bodies around the world as well as companies in the fields of defense and IT. He has testified as a subject-matter expert in many hearings in the German Bundestag and other major institutions, and he serves as a regular commentator on IT- and cyber-related incidents in the press.
Kenneth Geers (PhD, CISSP) is a Senior Global Threat Analyst at FireEye. Dr. Geers spent twenty years in the U.S. Government, with lengthy tours at NSA, NCIS, and NATO. Kenneth was the first U.S. Representative to the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence in Estonia. He is the author of Strategic Cyber Security, Editor of The Virtual Battlefield: Perspectives on Cyber Warfare, Technical Expert for the Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare, and author of more than twenty articles and chapters on cyber conflict. Follow him on Twitter @KennethGeers.
Karsten Geier is head of the New Threats Division in the Directorate-General for Arms Control and Disarmament in the German Foreign Office. He has served in former Yugoslavia, Washington, Brussels, and most recently in New York, first at the European Union Delegation to the United Nations and later at Germany's UN Mission. Karsten's current work has a strong focus on confidence building measures and on international norms for responsible state behavior in cyberspace.
Dr. Phillip Hallam-Baker is an internationally recognized computer security specialist and is credited with 'significant contributions' to the design of HTTP 1.0, the core protocol of the World Wide Web. He has been a leading contributor to the design of numerous Internet security standards and participated in establishing several leading Internet standards and trade organizations. As VP and Principal Scientist of Comodo Group, Hallam-Baker is currently focused on the problem of how to make the Internet infrastructure robust against attack by adversaries with nation-state level resources.
Duncan Hollis is James E. Beasley Professor of International Law and Associate Dean at the Temple University School of Law. His scholarship focuses on treaties and international regulation of cyber threats. He is editor of the award-winning Oxford Guide to Treaties (Oxford University Press, 2012) and National Treaty Law and Practice (Martinus Nijhoff, 2005) as well as a series of articles on how international law should (and should not) regulate cyberspace. A former State Department attorney-adviser, Professor Hollis is currently a senior team member of METANORM: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Analysis and Evaluation of Norms and Models of Governance for Cyberspace, a MIT-led project that is funded by the Minerva Research Initiative.
Roger Hurwitz is a senior fellow at the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto. He is also a research scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; a principal founder of Explorations in Cyber International Relations, a program funded by the US Defense Department’s Minerva Research Initiative (MRI); the organizer of the Cyber Norms workshops, and lead of the MRI funded Metanorms,a multidisciplinary investigation of the development and potential effects of cyber norms. His research interests include computational modeling of international conflict and cooperation, automated content analysis and narrative modeling, analysis and development of cyber defense strategies. A Ph.D. in computational social science, he has taught at MIT and the Hebrew University.
From 1975 to 2006, Nigel Inkster served in the UK Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), retiring as Assistant Chief and Director for Operations and Intelligence. Director of Transnational Threats and Political Risk at IISS since March 2007 focusing on non-traditional security threats including transnational terrorism and organised crime, intelligence and security and cyber security with a particular focus on China's cyber capabilities. Author of numerous articles in the IISS journal Survival, he is also co-author of books on the security implications of global counter-narcotics strategies and the Colombian insurgent movement the FARC, and has contributed chapters on China in Cyberspace in Cyberspace and National Security, Georgetown University Press 2012 and The Cyber Capabilities of China's Intelligence Agencies: the Transnational Implications in China and Cybersecurity: the Political, Economic and Strategic Perspectives to be published in 2014 by Oxford University Press.
Camino Kavanagh is a PhD candidate at the Department of War Studies, King's College London.
Alexander Klimburg has been a senior adviser at the Austrian Institute for International Affairs since 2006 and has acted as an adviser to a number of governments and international organizations on issues within international cyber security, critical infrastructure protection, and internet governance. He has participated in international and intergovernmental discussions within the European Union (EU) and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, and has been a member of various national, international and EU policy and working groups, as well as track 1/1.5 diplomatic initiatives and technical research groups (including on nation-wide IDS/IPS deployments). He is the principle author of a 2011 European Parliament study, Cyberpower and Cybersecurity, the editor of the NATO-funded National Cybersecurity Framework Manual, as well as a number of other publications. He is also the rapporteur of the Sino-European Sino Dialogue.
Patrick D. Lincoln is the Director of the Computer Science Laboratory at SRI International. The Computer Science Laboratory studies the logical foundations of scalable systems that are beyond the scope of traditional testing or simulation, and builds and applies efficient high-level tools for rigorous mechanical analysis. Current systems of interest include not only traditional computer hardware and software, but also biological systems and nanoelectronics. Dr. Lincoln has published extensively and broadly in fields ranging from biological signaling and logic programming to algorithm development, software security and network protection.
Professor Catherine Lotrionte is the Director of the Institute for Law, Science and Global Security and Visiting Professor at Georgetown University. Her work focuses on the role of international and domestic law and policy in developments in cyber technology and cyber threats. In 2002 she was appointed by General Brent Scowcroft to be Counsel to the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board at the White House, a position she held until 2006. In 2002 she served as a legal counsel for the Joint Inquiry Committee of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Prior to that, Professor Lotrionte was Assistant General Counsel at the CIA, where she provided legal advice relating to information warfare, foreign intelligence and counterintelligence activities, and international terrorism. She holds a Ph.D. from Georgetown University, a J.D. from NYU and is the author of over 70 publications, including a forthcoming book, Cyber Policy as An Instrument of International Relations.
Captain Kevin E. Lunday, U.S. Coast Guard, is currently assigned to the staff of the Commandant in Washington, D.C. He will soon promote to Rear Admiral (Lower Half) and in mid-June 2014 will report as the Director of Joint Exercises and Training (J7) at United States Cyber Command. Kevin Lunday has served nearly 27 years in the Coast Guard in a variety of legal, intelligence, policy and operational assignments. A career Judge Advocate licensed to practice in Virginia and Maryland, Captain Lunday has primarily focused in national security law and policy. He is a 2008 distinguished graduate of the National War College with an M.S. in National Security Strategy and 1997 graduate of the George Washington University Law School. He has published articles in legal and professional journals, including on building international standards governing corporate responsibility in cyberspace.
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Marilia Maciel is the researcher and coordinator of the Center for Technology and Society of the Getulio Vargas Foundation (CTS/FGV) in Rio de Janeiro. She is a Lecturer in courses offered by DiploFoundation (Geneva), such as the Internet Governance Capacity Building Program and the course on E-diplomacy. Member of ICANN's Non-commercial Users Constituency (NCUC) and representative of NCUC in NCSG Policy Committee. Former member of the Working Group on IGF improvements (2011-2012), created under the auspices of the Commission on Science and Technology for Development (UN CSTD). Member of the Advisory Board on Internet security, created under the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee. She is PhD candidate on International Relations at the Pontifical Catholic University (PUC – Rio de Janeiro) developing a thesis on Internet Governance and cyber security. She has a Master's degree in Latin American Integration from the Federal University of Santa Maria (2008) and Undergraduate in Law from the Federal University of Pernambuco (2005).
John C. Mallery is a research scientist at the MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Since 2010, he has participated in dialogues with Chinese and Russian cyber experts with a focus on escalatory dynamics of cyber conflict, cross-sector deterrence, and cyber risk reduction via functional norms. His recent research involves national cyber strategies, architectures for international cyber sharing and collaborative analysis, and technical strategies for cyber defense. During the 2008 Presidential campaign, he served on Obama's cyber policy team and helped craft his July 16, 2008 cyber platform. In 1988, he conceptualized the field of computational politics as he developed the Relatus Natural Understanding System and non-rectangular machine learning techniques for analyzing international relations using the SHERFACS Conflict and Cooperation data set. During the 1990s, he was the principal architect and developer of the White House Electronic Publications System that served the Clinton Administration from 1992-2001.
Michele Markoff is the Deputy Coordinator for Cyber Issues in the Office of the Coordinator for Cyber Affairs, US Department of State. Since 1998, Michele has been the senior State Department subject matter expert overseeing the development and implementation of foreign policy initiatives on cyberspace issues. She coordinates US policy across the spectrum of cyber-related policy issues, develops diplomatic strategies to enhance and preserve global cyber stability. Her initiative led to the successful completion of the first ever bilateral agreement on confidence-building in cyber space between the United State and the Russian Federation, announced in June, 2013. Michele also has been the US Expert on three Groups of UN Government Experts devoted to cyber issues. The last two led to landmark consensus reports regarding norms for state activity in cyberspace. She also concluded an agreement in Deember 2012 among the 57 states of the OSCE adopting 11 Cyber CBMs.
Tim Maurer is a Research Fellow at the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute focusing on cyberspace and international affairs. His current projects center on the global cyber-security norm process, information technology in the context of sanctions and export controls, and swing states in the international Internet policy debate. In October 2013, he spoke about cyber-warfare at the United Nations and his research has been published by Harvard University, Foreign Policy, CNN, and Slate among others. Prior to joining New America, he worked at the Center for Strategic and International Studies where he continues to be a non-resident adjunct fellow. He also gained experience with the United Nations in Rwanda, Geneva, and New York focusing on humanitarian assistance and the coordination of the UN system. He conducts his academic research as a non-resident research fellow at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab.
Bruce McConnell is the Senior Vice President, EastWest Institute, responsible for external relations and cyberspace cooperation. Prior roles are Deputy Under Secretary for Cybersecurity, US Department of Homeland Security. Team Leader, Obama-Biden Transition. President, McConnell International and Government Futures. Chief of Information Policy and Technology, US Office of Management and Budget. Distinguished Visiting Practitioner, University of Washington, Evans School of Public Affairs and Information School. MPA, UW. BS, Engineering, Stanford. He lives in New York.
Ms. Angela McKay is Director Cybersecurity Policy and Strategy in the Global Security Strategy and Diplomacy team at Microsoft. Ms. McKay leads Microsoft’s cybersecurity policy work in the U.S., and facilitates collaboration to improve cybersecurity globally. Ms. McKay also serves as Chair of the Information Technology (IT) Sector Coordinating Council, the public private partnership for the IT industry to work with the U.S. Government on critical infrastructure protection and cybersecurity, and Microsoft’s Point of Contact for the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC), which provides the President advice and expertise to help maintain secure and resilient communications. She previously helped increase cybersecurity capacity in developing and emerging economies. Prior to joining Microsoft, Ms. McKay worked at Booz Allen Hamilton supporting the Department of Homeland Security, and at BellSouth Telecommunications as an engineer. She holds a Bachelor’s of Industrial and Systems Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Sarah McKune is a senior researcher for the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto. Her research and analysis focus on cyber threats targeting civil society, control of surveillance technology exports and international cyber security initiatives. Sarah is a lawyer with a background in international human rights law.
FBI Special Agent Cody Monk is based in Houston, where he works closely with academic institutions on cyber and intelligence threats, specifically in the oil and gas industry. Prior to the FBI, SA Monk was an internationally recognized bilingual journalist and author. He also founded a multi-national digital media and sports marketing firm and taught Spanish at the university level. He began his writing career at The Dallas Morning News, and has written three books. SA Monk served a guest lecturer stint in the Naval Postgraduate School's software engineering program and was a faculty member at DIA’s National Intelligence University, teaching analytic technique and cyber affairs in the school's Graduate School of Intelligence for three years. He is also a member of the Houston Committee on Foreign Relations and is on the International Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s Digital Economy Task Force.
Dr. Yoko Nitta has been researching foreign policies and has a keen interest in facilitating global cyber security among EU, US, Russia and Japan at an official policy level. Currently she focuses on cyber espionage, information warfare and intelligence. She has global responsibility of shaping its agenda and broad responsibilities for developing global bridges through her mission. She has good knowledge of cyber security strategy and its policy among various foreign countries and its difference concept. She is a member of the security council and policy advisor to Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She is a senior principal researcher at Japan Society for Security and Crisis Management, a member of the Japan Forum on International Affairs, Canon Institute for Global Studies, the Japan Institute of International Affairs and official member of the diplomatic circle in Japan． She is selected as a participant of EUVP2013, as an accredited international leader by EU.
Joseph S. Nye, Jr. is University Distinguished Service Professor and former Dean of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He received his bachelor's degree summa cum laude from Princeton University, won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford, and earned a Ph.D. in political science from Harvard. He has served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, Chair of the National Intelligence Council, and a Deputy Under Secretary of State. His most recent books include Soft Power, The Powers to Lead, and The Future of Power. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the British Academy, and the American Academy of Diplomacy. In a recent survey of international relations scholars, he was ranked as the most influential scholar on American foreign policy, and in 2011, Foreign Policy named him one of the top 100 Global Thinkers.
Olivia Preston is Assistant Director at the Office of Cyber Security and Information Assurance at the Cabinet Office in the UK. Following a first career in the private sector, she joined the Foreign & Commonwealth Office where she has held posts in London, Vienna (in the UK Mission to the UN) and Paris. She was previously seconded to the Cabinet Office to work on the 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review and, since then, has been focusing on national security policy. She joined OCSIA in 2013, leading on international engagement in cyber security policy.
Gerold Reichenbach (Social Democratic Party) is a Member of the German Bundestag since 2002. He is Member of the Bundestag’s Committee on Internal Affairs and Second Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Digital Agenda, SPD rapporteur for data protection, IT-security, civil protection and disaster management. From 1995 to 2002 he was a Member of the Land Parliament of Hesse, where he worked in the Committees on Agriculture and the Environment as well as Economics and Transport. Before he was a grammar school teacher from 1981 to 1995. Gerold Reichenbach is a graduate of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt. He is married and has been working as a volunteer for the Federal Agency for Technical and Disaster Relieve (THW) since 1976.
Harvey Rishikoff is the Chair of the ABA Advisory Committee for the Standing Committee on Law and National Security, and Co-Chair (with Judy Miller) of the ABA National Task Force on Cyber and Security established in August 2012. He is a former senior policy advisor to DNI-NCIX, a former legal counsel to the deputy director of the FBI, a former AA to the Chief Justice, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations Task force on cyber.
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Dr. John E. Savage is the An Wang Professor of Computer Science at Brown University. He earned his PhD in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 1965 and joined Bell Laboratories in 1965 and the faculty of the Division of Engineering at Brown University in 1967. In 1979 he co-founded the Department of Computer Science at Brown, serving as its second chair. He has done research on coding and communication theory, theoretical computer science, scientific computing, and computational nanotechnology. After spending the 2009-2010 academic year in the Cyber Affairs Office of the US State Department as a Jefferson Science Fellow he switched his research interests to cybersecurity policy and technology. He has spent sabbaticals in the Netherlands, France, England, and the US. He was awarded a Fulbright-Hays Research Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is a Fellow of AAAS and ACM and a Life Fellow of the IEEE.
Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a "security guru" by The Economist. He is the author of 12 books -- including Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust Society Needs to Survive -- as well as hundreds of articles, essays, and academic papers. His influential newsletter "Crypto-Gram" and blog "Schneier on Security" are read by over 250,000 people. Schneier is a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, a program fellow at the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute, a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and an Advisory Board member of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. He is also the Chief Technology Officer of Co3 Systems, Inc.
Eric Sears is Program Officer in the Human Rights program at the MacArthur Foundation. He oversees several areas of grantmaking, including efforts to advance an open and secure Internet. Prior to joining MacArthur, Eric worked for Human Rights First, in New York, and for Amnesty International USA, in Washington DC.
Michael Sechrist is a Vice President for Threat and Vulnerability Management within State Street's Corporate Information Security office. He previously was manager of the Explorations in Cyber International Relations initiative at Harvard's Belfer Center.
Howard Shrobe is Associate Director and Principal Research Scientist at MIT CSAIL. From 1997 - 2000, he served as Associate Director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. From 1994 - 1997, he served at DARPA as Assistant Director and Chief Scientist of the Information Technology Office. He was responsible for the Intelligent Systems and Software Technology group in the office with direct involvement in the Evolutionary Design of Complex Software and the original suite of Information Survivability programs. From Feb 2010 - Oct 2013, he served at DARPA as a Program Manager Information Innovation Office where he sponsored two programs on cyber security: CRASH (Clean-slate design of Resilient Adaptive Secure Hosts) and MRC (Mission-oriented Resilient Clouds).
Chris Spirito is an innovative scientist and hacker with an extensive background in cybersecurity, unmanned systems, global healthcare and mathematics. Currently one of the corporate visionaries for MITRE’s international cybersecurity work program, delivering avant-garde research to our global customers in the areas of cyber strategy, law and policy, foreign language analysis and advanced cyber defense techniques.
Dr. Eneken Tikk-Ringas is Senior Fellow for Cyber Security at the International Institute for Strategic Studies based out of the Middle East office in Manama, Bahrain. Eneken also serves as special adviser to the ICT4Peace Foundation. She holds a PhD in law from the University of Tartu, Estonia. From 2006 to 2011 Eneken worked as Legal Adviser and Head of Legal and Policy Team of the NATO CCD COE and in 2012 she did a one-year post-doctoral fellowship at the CitizenLab. Eneken’s academic affiliations include the Baltic Defence College and Georgetown University Center for Law, Technology and Security. She has long teaching experience at Tallinn Technical University and Swedish National Defence College. Eneken’s current interests comprise national position formulation on strategic cyber security issues, cyber diplomacy and norms of responsible behavior in cyberspace.
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Victoria Woodbine is the Cyber Policy lead in the Foreign and Security Policy Group at the British Embassy in Washington DC, a position she assumed in September 2012. She is responsible for tracking the development of US cyber policy and its implications for transatlantic co-operation on cyber security, and supports the UK's multinational engagement and the UK Departments included in the UK's national cyber programme.
Dr. Pano Yannakogeorgos is a Research Professor of Cyber Policy and Global Affairs at the U.S. Air Force Research Institute of Air University. He recently authored "Strategies for Resolving the Cyber Attribution Challenge" and is co-editor of the recent book "Conflict and Cooperation in Cyberspace." His expertise includes the intersection of cyberpower, national security and military operations; international cyber policy; cyber arms control; global cyber norms; and Eastern Mediterranean studies. He was formerly a member of the faculty at the Rutgers University Division of Global Affairs, and was an Adviser on the UN Security Council. He holds a Ph.D. and M.S in Global Affairs from Rutgers University and an ALB in Philosophy from the Harvard University.
Colonel William E. Young, Jr is currently a PhD candidate in the Engineering Systems Division at MIT, where he is a member of the Systems Engineering Research Lab. He is also a military fellow at Lincoln Laboratories in the Cyber System Assessments Group. His specialization area is cyberspace strategy, technology and systems. His research focuses on applying system-theoretic approaches to improve systems engineering, operational design, red teaming, and campaign-level mission assurance in cyberspace. Col Young is a graduate and former instructor at the USAF Weapon School and has over 2,400 flying hours. He is also a graduate of the USAF School of Advanced Air and Space Studies and the Air War College's Grand Strategy Program. He will return to become the Cyber Chair at Air War College after finishing his PhD this Summer.
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