Biography

Prof. Greg Austin
Advisory Board Member

Dr. Austin is a Professor in the UNSW Canberra Cyber, Australia. He concurrently serves as a Professorial Fellow with the East West Institute (EWI), with offices in New York, Palo Alto, Brussels and Moscow. He is Australia’s leading research scholar on international security aspects of cyber space affairs. He:

• leads a Research Group on Cyber War and Peace at a World Top 50 university
• leads international research projects on cyber security policy
• set up Australia’s first Master’s degree in Cyber Security, Strategy and Diplomacy (which has few peers anywhere in the world); and he teaches four subjects in this degree
• is a member of the Cyber Security Advisory Council for the Australian state of New South Wales
• Published two books on cyber policy on China (2014 and 2018), one of a tiny group of scholars to do so
• published five other books on Asian security affairs (four are on China), each with a strong interdisciplinary focus, and one additional edited volume on energy security
• has research interests in cyber strategy and diplomacy, security policies of China and Russia, countering violent extremism, and national security ethics
• has held seven university appointments, all in world class universities or departments: War Studies at King’s College (Senior Visiting Fellow), Peace Studies at Bradford (Associate Professor), International Relations at ANU in Australia (Fellow)
• has held posts in Australian security policy as Ministerial adviser, parliamentary committee secretary, international intelligence liaison officer and intelligence analyst

Biography

Dr. Ali M. Al-Khouri
Advisory Board Member

Dr. Ali Mohammed Al-Khouri is the Advisor of the Arab Economic Unity Council and Chairman of the Arab Federation for Digital Economy in the Arab League. He is also a senior government official in the United Arab Emirates. With a total experience of over 27 years, he participated in the implementation of many mission-critical and strategic initiatives in the public sector.

Dr. Al-Khouri is recognized both nationally and internationally as think-tank, and for his management expertise and technical knowledge, having developed different intellectual methodologies and frameworks to support various fields of practice.

He has recently appeared as world’s 100 most influential people in digital government, and came in 23rd position, as the only Arab figure to appear in the list that was published by “Apolitical”, funded by European Commission and World Economic Forum along with other international organizations including governments. He also won “Most Influential Personality in Digital Identity World in a Decade” award in the 10th international conference for Identity in 2011 that was held in Italy and supported by the European Commission.

Dr. Al-Khouri played a key role in transformation initiatives in the UAE and in the implementation of national digital agenda, where he headed the Emirates Identity Authority, a federal entity responsible for running sophisticated infrastructure to support national e-government initiatives and digital economy. He was able to transform the authority into a world-class organization that resulted in receiving several local and international awards including the UN Award for Public Sector, and the best government Authority in the UAE Federal Government for two consecutive cycles 2012 and 2014.

He also served as an advisor to many national and international organizations and participated in the development of many international reports for United Nations, World Economic Forum, European Commission, and the Arab League. He is also a member in many advisory boards of international institutions and international task forces interested in the development of knowledge societies.

He has published over 100+ management books and scientific research articles in international peer-reviewed journals.

Dr. Al Khouri is a Professor and Fellow of the British Institute of Technology in London, UK. He attained his higher education from top UK universities, where he received his B.Sc. (Hons.) in 'Business Information Technology Management' from Manchester University, M.Sc. in 'Information Management' from Lancaster University, and an Engineering Doctorate (EngD) from Warwick University in the field of 'Strategic and Large Government Projects Management'.

Biography

Prof. John M. Nomikos
Advisory Board Member

Prof. John M. Nomikos is the Director of the Research Institute for European and American Studies, Chairman, European Intelligence Academy (EIA) and Founding Editor, Journal of European and American Intelligence Studies (JEAIS)- (former Mediterranean and Balkan Intelligence (JMBI). He is a Professor in the Webster University (Athens Campus). He is Member of the Advisory Board for the Master Security Studies and Information Analysis (MASIS) at the American University in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and a Fellow in the International Association for Counter-Terrorism and Security Professionals (IACSPSEA). He was Adjunct Professor (2005-2007) at the Department of International Relations in the University of Indianapolis (Athens Camus).He earned his Bachelor Degree in Sociology at the Northeast Louisiana University in 1987, his Masters Degree in European Integration and Cooperation at the University of Hull, 1991, and his Doctorate Diploma in International Relations and Diplomacy at the Washington International University in 2001. In 2016, he earned a Certificate in Critical Thinking and Effective Writing from Globalytica LLC, USA. He specializes on transatlantic intelligence studies, intelligence reform, national security architecture and cybersecurity strategy. He has done research and studied in various research institutions in USA, UK, Norway, Finland, Germany and Israel.

John M. Nomikos directed the Greek team in a consortium of five countries (Northern Ireland-UK, Spain, Germany, Bulgaria, and Israel) and completed successfully a two year (2009-2011) European Union-FP7 research project titled: SAFE COMMS on “Counter-terrorism Crisis Communication Strategies for Recovery and Continuity.” He participated as Greek Expert on the European Union Project titled TRANSVERSAL BRIDGE (HOME 2012/ISEC/AG/4000004378) on “The Emerging Threat of Transversal Terrorist Alliances and the Radicalization of the European Union Social Climate.” The Project started on January 2014 and completed on April 2016, managed by AGENFOR organization in Italy. He is a Certified Master Antiterrorism Specialist (CMAS).

He is a Member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence (IJIC); Editorial Advisory Board for the Spanish Journal of Intelligence Studies (Inteligencia Y Seguridad: Revista De Analisis Y Prospectiva); Editorial Board of the Journal of Intelligence Studies (JIS); International Editorial Board of the Bulgarian Military History Journal (Voenen Zhurnal); the Advisory Board for the Police, Practice and Research Journal (PPR); Editorial Board of the European Journal of Intelligence Studies (EJIS); Editorial Board of the Journal for Intelligence, Propaganda and Security Studies (JIPSS); Editorial Board of the Journal of Military and Strategic Affairs; International Advisory Board for the World Security Network Foundation (WSN); Editorial Board of the International Journal of Intelligence Ethics (IJIE), Editorial Board of the Geopolitics, Geostrategy, International and European Policy in Civitas Gentium Journal. He is also a Member of the International Association for Intelligence Education (IAFIE), the International Association for Counterterrorism and Security Professionals (IACSP), International Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysts (IALEIA), International Counter-Terrorism Academic Community (ICTAC), International Counter-Terrorism and Critical Incident Network (CTCIN) and International Counterterrorism Officers Association (ICTOA).

Biography

Prof. Nazli Choucri
Advisory Board Member

Nazli Choucri is a Professor of Political Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Institute for Science and Data (IDSS) and holds a Senior Faculty position at the Center or International Studies (CIS). Her research focuses on dynamics of transformation and change in international relations, with special attention to growth and expansion– in "real" and cyber systems. Her work, including policy analysis, is largely multi-method and multi-disciplinary, as reflected in 12 books and over 120 articles. Her most recent book, International relations in the Cyber Age: The Co-Evolution Dilemma, is co-authored with David D. Clark.

Prof. Choucri holds the first patent in the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at MIT, for an interactive knowledge management and networking system devoted to the complexity of sustainability, the Global System for Sustainable Development (GSSD). A customized application to the cyber domain, Cyber System for Strategy and Decision (CSSD) is under construction. She directed MIT’s Middle East Program for several years, and served as Associate Director of Technology and Development Program over its long duration at MIT.

As Principal Investigator and Director of a multi-disciplinary MIT-Harvard research collaboration on Explorations in Cyber International Relations (ECIR), she worked with a joint team to develop theories and methods for

linking cyberspace and international relations into an integrated framework for education, research, and policy. ECIR-continued focuses on Cyber-IR building upon earlier foundations to strengthen the new directions of inquiry in international relations. Prof. Choucri is the founding Editor of the MIT Press Series on Global Accord: Strategies for Sustainability. She served on the Editorial Board of the American Political Science Review and, earlier as General Editor of the International Political Science Review.

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.

Biography

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.

Biography

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.

Biography

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".

Biography

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.

Biography

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/

Biography

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.

Biography

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.

Biography

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.

Biography

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.

Biography

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.

Biography

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.

Biography

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. .

Biography

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.

Biography

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.