Biography

Prof. Jarno Limnell
Senior Policy Analyst

Jarno Limnéll is Professor of Cybersecurity at Aalto University, Finland, and an adjunct professor in three other Finnish universities. He also works as CEO in a private company. He has been working with security issues for over 20 years, and has a profound understanding of the global threat landscape, combined with the courage to address the most complex issues. Professor Limnéll has published a comprehensive list of works on security issues. His areas of interests are Cybersecurity leadership, cyberwarfare, hybrid warfare, election security, cyber-politics, IoT security etc.

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Dr. James Shires
Policy Analyst

Dr. James Shires is a Cyber Policy Analyst at the Global Foundation for Cyber Studies and Research. He is also a research fellow with the Cyber Security Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, USA. His research examines cybersecurity in the Middle East, focusing on the interaction between threats to individuals, states and organizations, new regional dynamics, and the development of cybersecurity expertise. He holds an MSc from Birkbeck College, University of London, and a BA from the University of Cambridge, UK.

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Dr. Tan Youzhi
Senior Policy Analyst

Dr. Tan Youzhi is a Senior Cyber Policy Analyst at the Global Foundation for Cyber Studies and Research. He is also a Professor at School of International Relations at University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, People's Republic of China. In addition, he is the Director for both the Department of International Political Economy and the Department of Diplomacy. His research interests mainly include public diplomacy, cybersecurity and global governance of cyberspace. He has published two monographs and dozens of research papers in the aforementioned academic fields.

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Joshua Chambers
Technology Analyst

Joshua Chambers is a Cyber Technology Analyst at the Global Foundation for Cyber Studies and Research. He is the Founder of GovInsider, a publication that shares stories about government innovation in Asia Pacific. They run large-scale summits with the United Nations to train developing government officials, and have a scholarship named in honour of the organisation by University College London.

Chambers was also appointed Lead Consultant, Public Sector, by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia Pacific (UNESCAP) to research innovation in China, Japan, Korea and Singapore. He is a weekly radio commentator for Singapore Press Holdings Radio and an Expert Advisor to the League of Arab States on digital economy.

Biography

Dr. Vladimer Svanadze
Senior Policy Analyst

Dr. Vladimer Svanadze is a Senior Cyber Policy Analyst at the Global Foundation for Cyber Studies and Research. He is currently working as a the Head of Information Security Operations Center iSOC at MZE Ltd Georgia. At the same time, Dr. Vladimer Svanadze is founder and the acting Chairman of the Board at the “Internet Development Initiative IDI”, which is a Non-Commercial and as Non-governmental organization and was established in 2015 to engage in solution of obstacles related to the Internet Development, to pursue Cyber Security and elaboration of Information and Communication Technology as its core competency.

Dr. Svanadze is also Invited Lecturer at the University of Georgia, where he established the Center for study and Research of Internet especially for students. Also he is managing a process of creation of the MA in Cyber Security at the University of Georgia.

In 2015-2016 he was the Consultant of “LEPL Cyber Security Bureau” under the Ministry of Defense of Georgia. Dr. Svanadze was a main participant in process of develop of “LEPL Cyber Security Bureau” at the MoD of Georgia. On his initiative, was established a first library of Cybersecurity at the National Defence Academy at the MoD of Georgia.

Dr. Svanadze is one of the main author of Cyber Security Strategy and Action Plan of Georgia for 2016-2018. He was as a main adviser at the State Security and Crisis Management Council at the Prime Minister of Georgia; Recommendations in the process of preparation of the Strategy; Preparation of the final version of the Strategy.

Dr. Svanadze is a member of the Adviser Committee of the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace (GCSC), which was established by the Officials of the EU in 2016. He was as a Focal Point on the Plenary Session of Cybersecurity at the EuroDIG 2017 in Tallinn. In 2016 the first ever Internet governance forum in Georgia GeoIGF was initiated by Dr. Svanadze. One of the main idea of the event was to discuss the public policy issues related to key elements of Internet governance in order to foster the sustainability, robustness, security, stability and development of the Internet. At the same time, he is Initiator and organizer of the first annual conference in Cyber Security field in Georgia “International Festival of Cyber Security”. Dr. Svanadze was one of the first who provided special study courses and trainings for awareness in Cyber Security. With support of ICANN, he organized trainings for Law Enforcement Agencies LAE of Georgia in area of Cyber Security, and Cyber Crime. Dr. Svanadze established a special study courses for school in Cyber Security, which include Threats in Cyber Space for children, Cyber Bullying, Cyber Hygiene, Strategy, Policies, and etc.

Dr. Svanadze studies Cyber Security Policy, Strategy and best experience since 2011. He is an author of numerous articles and works, including the first Georgian language book in Cyber Security "Cyber Defence: Main Players of Cyberspace. Police, Strategy and new Challenges of Cybersecurity, 2016".

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Geert Mareels
Senior Policy Analyst

Geert Mareels is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Global Foundation for Cyber Studies and Research. He holds master degrees in Administrative Management and in Political Science. He was chief of staff to 3 different ministers from 1995 till 2004. From 1 October 2004 till April 2016, he led CORVE, the eGovernment service of the Flemish Region in Belgium. They built the “MAGDA” platform for sharing data across all government agencies on the Flemish and city level and with Federal data. He is now head of division and building the Digital Archives of the Flemish public sector. He is chairing the Smart cities competition for Flemish cities since 2015. He was invited as expert for the Research Executive Agency of the European Commission to evaluate possible new projects. He is also chairing the Flemish Privacy Commission. He was project coordinator of three EU projects: “Citadel on the Move” that aims to facilitate the use of Mobile apps by all municipalities, and “Open TransportNet” that focuses on making GI Data more accessible and useable for business innovators and public sector stakeholders alike. Polivisu is aiming to facilitate the use of geographical data in policy making. In his spare time, he wrote a novel and is member of the board of editors of a magazine on political and social topics.

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Hafiz Malik, Ph.D.
Senior Policy Analyst

Hafiz Malik is Associate Processor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department at University of Michigan – Dearborn. His research in the areas of automotive cybersecurity, IoT security, sensor security, multimedia forensics, steganography/steganalysis, information hiding, pattern recognition, and information fusion is funded by the National Science Foundation, National Academies, Ford Motor Company, and other agencies. He has published more than 70 papers in leading journals, conferences, and workshops. He is a founding member of the Cybersecurity Center for Research, Education, and Outreach at the UM-Dearborn. He is also serving a member of Scientific and Industrial Advisory Board (SIAB) of the National Center of Cyber Security Pakistan. He is a member, M-City (The M-City is University of Michigan research center aims to bring stakeholder to develop the foundation for an ecosystem of connected and automated vehicles) Working Group on Cybersecurity, since 2015. He is a member of Working He is a member of Working Group for IEEE Project 1912 - Standard for Privacy and Security Architecture for Consumer Wireless Devices.

He is on the Review Board Committee of IEEE Technical Committee on Multimedia Communications (MMTC). He organized Special Track on Doctoral Dissertation in Multimedia, in the 6th IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM) 2006. He is also organizing a special session on “Data Mining in Industrial Applications” within the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI) 2013. He has served as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2014 – 2018; Associate Editor for the Springer Journal on Signal Image and Video Processing, 2013 – 2017; and Guest Editor, The Scientific World Journal - Special Issue: “Security of Information and Networks," Volume 2015 (2015), Article ID 150640, Hindawi Publishing. He served as vice chair of IEEE SEM, Chapter 16: Computational Intelligence since 2011 - 2017. He gave an invited talk entitled “Audio Forensics: Trends and Challenges” in the IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Security held with IEEE International Conference on Audio, Speech, and Signal Processing 2016 on March 20, 2016 at the Shenzhen University, China. He presented a Workshop on “Authentication Using Acoustical Environment” during Audio Engineering Society (AES) Int. Conf. on Audio Forensics, Arlington, VA, June 15 – 17, 2017. He is also serving on several technical program committees including the IEEE AVSS, Fake Multimedia, ICME, ICIP, MINES, ISPA, CCNC, ICASSP, and ICC.

Further information about his research can be found at http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~hafiz/

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Dr. Sascha Dov Bachmann
Senior Policy Analyst

Dr. Sascha is a senior policy analyst at Global Foundation for Cyber Studies and Research. He led the preparation for Bournemouth University’s law submission for UoA 18 for the upcoming U.K. Research Excellence Framework (REF) exercise (ERA equivalent) and he is the Director of the Centre of Conflict, Rule of Law and Society (CROLS). In 2016, he was appointed an extraordinary Associate Professor (Docent) in War Studies at the Swedish Defence University, Stockholm in recognition of his academic contributions to Military Studies. He is a Research Fellow at the Faculty of Military Science, Stellenbosch University (RSA).

He has been working closely with international organizations and defense stakeholders alongside academia across the globe including NATO, US CENTCOM, the Japanese DoD, the Austrian Ministry of Defence, Israel, Australia, the French Republic, the European Union, the Swedish Defence University, the Royal Danish Defence College, the South African military, the Royal Dutch Army, the Korean Judge Advocate to name just some on the subjects of Hybrid Warfare, Lawfare, Cyber & InfoOps, Terrorism Finance and International Law.

His research (more than 80 outputs) is interdisciplinary and discusses topical issues arising from new Security Challenges of the 21st Century such as Hybrid Warfare, Information Operations, the use of Lawfare, Cyber enhanced Hybrid Warfare alongside other law topics such as International Criminal Justice, HumRts Litigation etc.

He contributes to NATO’s Legal Advisor Web with his publications being used as NATO reference documents (LAWFAS) by SHAPE and as scientific contributor.

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Mustafa Afyonluoğlu
Senior Policy Analyst

Mustafa Afyonluoğlu is a senior policy analyst at Global Foundation for Cyber Studies and Research. He (graduated from Hacettepe University Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, 1992) completed 1st Masters Degree from same department (1996), 2nd in “Cyber Law” (Bilgi University, 2012) and 3rd in “Good Governance” (Bogazici University, 2016). His academic studies continues in law (Anadolu University) and Social Policy (Yale University). His doctoral study is about National e-Government Personal Data Privacy Framework and Anonymization. He has worked in several managerial positions in the public and private sector and is project manager for more than 70 national and international projects during last 28 years.

Afyonluoglu was e-Transformation Department Manager and e-Government Consultant in TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Council of Turkey) and PM e-Government Expert and Head of e-Government Advisory Group on Prime Ministry Office between 2010 and 2015. He managed many big-scale e-Government projects with national awards such as Online Vehicle Registration, e-Tax in Municipalities, Children’s Follow-Up Center, e-Transformation of National Public Procurement Center (DMO) and Turkey Immigration General Directorate e-Creation Project (on behalf of International Organization of Migration). All those projects are selected as Turkey’s Prioritized e-Government Projects by Prime Ministry. He has taken part in e-Europe+, e-Transformation Turkey, Electronic Commerce Coordination Committee (ETKK) and Turkish ICT Institution (BTK) e-Signature working groups.

He has management board membership of many NGOs and has been voluntarily contributing to the workgroups in many areas such as National Government Data Center, e-Government Superstructure, Public Sector Cloud Computing, Vision 2023, e-Services on Public Agencies, Virtualization, Informatics Ethics, Cyber Law working group. He was a jury member of e-Turkey Awards in Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) in 2014 & 2015. He was an instructor on TOBB ETU University and THK University master program, in e-Government and e-Transformation area between 2013 and 2015. He was coordinator of Turkey's 2016-2019 National e-Government Strategy and Action Plan and was Cyber Security and e-Governance external expert in Presidency (State Audit Board) between 2016-2017. He is EU Key Expert for “EU Single Contact Points (PSC) Action Plan" (2006/123/EC) and “EU National Assistance Center (NAC) Action Plan“ (2013/55/EU) for Turkey. He is consultant of Ministry of Customs and Trade and responsible from “National Points of Single Contact for Business” & “Retail IT System”.

National Informatics Legislation, Cyber Security and e-Government libraries can be accessed from daily updated website “http://afyonluoglu.org” that contains more than 5.000 national and international reports with more that 450 million visits in 600 days.

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Dr. Ayse Kok
Policy Analyst

Dr. Ayse Kok is a policy analyst at Global Foundation for Cyber Studies and Research. She has over 8 years of experience in the field of social, mobile and digital technologies both from both a professional and a researcher perspective. She participated in various projects in partnership with international organizations such as UN, NATO and the EU. She also acted as an adjunct faculty member in her home town Turkey. She attended various international conferences as a speaker and published over 80 articles in both peer-reviewed journals and academic books. She is also the author of 3 books in the field of tech & policy. She completed her masters and doctorate degrees at both University of Oxford (UK) and University of Cambridge (UK). Currently, she lives with her family in Silicon Valley and works at Google in Mountain View.

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Candice Tran Dai
Senior Policy Analyst

Candice Tran Dai is a senior policy analyst at Global Foundation for Cyber Studies and Research. Working both for the private and the public sectors, Candice favors a cross-disciplinary and multi-level approach to Cyberspace.

She works as a Senior Consultant in cyber strategy and cyber risks management, helping the corporate sector to enhance its cyber security posture. She is also the Vice-president and the Head of the Cyberspace Program at Asia Center, a Paris-based think tank, where her academic research focuses on cyber issues in the Asia-Pacific region.

Candice holds an M.A. in International Relations and an M.A. in Chinese Language and Culture from the French National Institute of Oriental Languages and Cultures, a Certificate in Digital Security from the French National Institute for Higher Studies in Security and Justice and a Certificate in Cyber Security from the DiploFoundation.

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Abdelouahid Derhab
Policy Analyst

Dr. Abdelouahid Derhab is a policy analyst at Global Foundation for Cyber Studies and Research. He received the Engineer's, MSc, and PhD degrees in computer science from University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boummediene (USTHB), Algiers, in 2001, 2003, and 2007, respectively. He was a computer science engineer and a full-time researcher at CERIST research center in Algeria from 2002 to 2012. He was an Assistant Professor at King Saud University from 2012 to 2018. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Center of Excellence in Information Assurance (COEIA), King Saud University. He is also the information security manager and member of the Information Security Management System Steering Committee of the center. His research interests are: malware analysis, network security, intrusion detection, mobile security, Internet of things, smart grid, blockchain, and cyber security policies. He served as a lead guest editor and on the editorial board of some peer-reviewed journals. He also served as workshop chair, technical committee chair, and reviewer for many journals and international conferences. He is the author of more than 90 papers in different peer-reviewed journals and conferences. He contributed in developing "BS Cyber security Degree Program" and "Higher Diploma in Cyber security" at King Saud University. He also delivered many training courses, lectures, and awareness sessions in the field of cybersecurity such as network security, application security, information security management and auditing, and cybersecurity standards.

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Jason R.C. Nurse
Policy Analyst

Dr Jason R.C. Nurse is a policy analyst at the Global Foundation for Cyber Studies and Research. He is also an Asst. Prof. in Cyber Security at the University of Kent, UK, and a Visiting Academic in Computer Science at the University of Oxford, UK. His research focuses on the interaction between users, organisations and governments, and aspects of cyber security, online privacy and trust. This considers the full spectrum of technologies in use today as well as those that may emerge in future environments and contexts. Topics central to his research include cybercrime, identity risk, psychological aspects of cyber security, internet of things, cyber insurance and fake news. He has published over 80 articles on these topics, and presented at a range of prestigious events throughout his career. For further information about his research or to engage with him directly, please visit https://twitter.com/jasonnurse.

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Thomas J. Holt
Senior Policy Analyst

Dr. Thomas J. Holt is a senior policy analyst at the Global Foundation for Cyber Studies and Research. He is a criminologist, whose research focuses on cybercrime, cybersecurity, and policy responses to deviance on and off-line. His research focuses on the human factor in cybercrime, considering offender behavior as well as victim characteristics using data generated from surveys and online data sources. Dr. Holt's work has been published in a range of scholarly outlets, such as the British Journal of Criminology, Crime & Delinquency, Deviant Behavior, and the Journal of Criminal Justice, as well as multiple books, including Cybercrime in Progress (Routledge) and Data Thieves in Action (Palgrave). He has also presented at computer security and hacking conferences around the world. .

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Oriane Barat-Ginies
Senior Policy Analyst

Dr. Oriane Barat-Ginies a senior policy analyst at the Global Foundation for Cyber Studies and Research. She is a French lawyer with fifteen years’ experience in IT security and legal sector. She holds a Ph.D on international law and cybersecurity and a Master Degree in IT and cyber criminality. She has worked throughout the world assisting governments and private sector entities with legal reforms, legislative drafting and developing cybersecurity policies. She is currently Legal Counsel specialized in Anti-piracy issues in an International broadcasting Company. Previously she worked 4 years as legal consultant to the Minister’s Office of the Ministry of Transport and Communications (MoTC) in charge of Smart Nation Project, E-commerce and Telecom Law revision as well as Data Privacy. She has also worked on cybersecurity business development for Thales and spent many years at the French Ministry of Defense collaborating with NATO Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence in Estonia.

She is law teacher, project manager, trainer and certified institutional development professional. She is an author of two legal textbooks and numerous legal articles specialized in cybersecurity and Middle East region and also affiliated as a researcher at the Chartered Institute of National Defense.

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Piret Pernik
Policy Analyst

Piret Pernik is a policy analyst at the Global Foundation for Cyber Studies and Research. She is a Researcher of Cyber Security at the Estonian Academy of Security Sciences, Tallinn, Estonia. Between 2013-2018 she worked as a Research Fellow in Cyber Security at the International Centre for Defense and Security (ICDS), Tallinn. She has researched, published and taught on a variety of cyber security subjects, including cyber security strategies, policies, and frameworks, military aspects such as the development of cyber commands, as well as nation-state cyberoperations. She has widely published on topics such as Russia’s cyber activities, cyber security collaboration of the EU and NATO, and political influence operations in the cyberspace. Before joining the ICDS she worked for many years at the Estonian Ministry of Defense focusing on defense policy planning. Between 2009-2012 she was an adviser to the National Defense Committee of the Estonian Parliament. Her publications are available at the ICDS website http://www.icds.ee.