Marietje Schaake

Marietje Schaake has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament for the Dutch Democratic Party with the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) political group since 2009. Marietje Schaake is the ALDE Coordinator of the International Trade committee (INTA). She additionally serves on the committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET), where she focuses on strengthening Europe as a global player. In the subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI) she speaks on human rights and coordinates the monthly human rights resolutions for ALDE. Her work has sought to include digital freedoms in EU foreign policy. Marietje has pushed for completing Europe’s digital single market and copyright reform. Marietje has pushed for completing Europe’s digital single market and copyright reform. She is strongly committed to an open Internet in discussions about Internet governance and digital (human) rights.

Noshir Contractor

Noshir Contractor is the Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences in the McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science, the School of Communication and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, USA. He is the Director of the Science of Networks in Communities (SONIC) Research Group at Northwestern University and a board member of the Web Science Trust. He is investigating factors that lead to the formation, maintenance, and dissolution of dynamically linked social and knowledge networks in a wide variety of contexts. He received the 2014 National Communication Association Distinguished Scholar Award and was elected in 2015 as a Fellow of the International Communication Association. He is also the co-founder and Chairman of Syndio, which offers organizations products and services based on network analytics.

Christian de Larrinaga

Christian de Larrinaga is Chairman of Firsthand. Christian has been a founder and leading light in several ICT, telecommunications and media businesses, industry organisations and charities. He is currently mentoring and developing IT infrastructures and applications with particular interest in efficiencies and broader societal benefits from decentralising services in IoT, ‘big’ data, and visualisation interfaces. Christian’s activities have accrued many prestigious awards and he has also acted as judge for BCS, IMIS, and served as UK expert for the UN World Summit Awards. He has acted as diplomat, negotiator and speaker on international consultations, and more formally for Internet Society, the Bond, Future Trust and others. He is a Chartered IT Professional and Fellow of the British Computer Society. He is founder of the Internet Society UK England and a past chair.

Andrea M. Matwyshyn

Dr. Andrea M. Matwyshyn is a legal academic studying technology innovation and its legal implications, particularly corporate information security regulation and consumer privacy. She is currently the Microsoft Visiting Professor at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University, a professor of law at Northeastern University (on leave), and a faculty affiliate of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School. Additionally, she serves as an member of the board of advisors to the European Union Network of Excellence in Internet Science (EINS) and NYU Poly’s CRISSP INSPIRE program. In 2014, she served as the Senior Policy Advisor and Academic in Residence at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. She has previously held appointments at the the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Northwestern University School of Law and the University of Florida Levin College of Law.

Marcelo Thompson

Marcelo Thompson is an Assistant Professor of Law and Deputy Director of the Law and Technology Centre at the Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong. Courses Marcelo teaches or has taught at HKU include “Law and Society”, “Legal Theory”, “Privacy and Data Protection” and “Regulation of Cyberspace “. Marcelo’s core research interests lie in the intersection between law, political theory and the study of technological change. He is particularly interested in what the entrenchment of new forms of normativity in the design of the information environment means for the life of law and politics in the 21st century. Marcelo has given lectures and spoken in conferences in Brazil, Canada, Chile, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Mainland China and the United Kingdom. Marcelo is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Network of Excellence in Internet Science and of the Editorial Board of Revista de Direito Administrativo.

Motohiro Tsuchiya

Motohiro Tsuchiya is professor of Graduate School of Media and Governance and deputy director of Global Security Research Institute (G-SEC) at Keio University. Prior to joining the Keio faculty, he was associate professor at Center for Global Communications, International University of Japan. In 2001 and 2002 he received Fulbright Research Grant of the Japan-U.S. Education Commission and the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, and Abe Fellowship of the Center for Global Partnership and the Social Science Research Council for research in the United States. He researched in Washington, DC, as visiting scholar at Center for International Development and Conflict Management, University of Maryland, and at Cyberspace Policy Institute, George Washington University. From March 2008 to March 2009 he was visiting scholar at MIT Center for International Studies.