basis & de key bios igf 2014

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DIGITAL ECONOMY

COMPILATION OF KEY BIOS IGF 2 14

Joseph H. Alhadeff, Chief Privacy Strategist, Vice President, Global Public Policy,

Oracle; Chair, ICC Commission on the Digital Economy

As Oracles Vice President of Global Public Policy, Mr. Alhadeff is responsible

for coordinating and managing Oracle's international and Internet-related policy

issues.

As Chief Privacy Strategist, Mr. Alhadeff oversees Oracles strategic planningand advocacy related to privacy, personal information protection andmanagement across Oracle operations and global policy fora.

In addition to his role at Oracle, Mr. Alhadeff serves a prominent role in several

influential international organizations dedicated to Internet policy, security and

privacy. Mr Alhadeff serves as the BIAC Chair to the OECD Information Communications and

Computing Policy Committee and the OECD Working Party on Information Security and Privacy and

as Chair of the International Chamber of Commerces Digital Economy Committee. In the EU, Mr.

Alhadeff also served as Chair of the Data Protection, Governance and Identity Management working

group of the EU Business Expert Group on Cloud Computing. In the US, Mr. Alhadeff chairs the

Digital Economy Committee for the US India Business Council, co-chairs The Trans-Atlantic

Business Councils ICT working group and is Vice Chair of USCIBs Information Policy Committee.

Mr. Alhadeff is also the Chair of the US ASEANs Malaysia Committee, Vice -Chair of the US-ASEAN

Business Councils Technology Committee and serves on the NCAPEC Board and board of The

Privacy Projects. Mr Alhadeff also serves on the advisory boards of the Digital Security Council of

India and Wiredkids.org.

Prior to joining Oracle, Mr. Alhadeff was General Counsel and Vice President for Electronic

Commerce for the US Council for International Business (USCIB) in New York. Mr. Alhadeff holds anM.B.A. in management and information systems from New York University, Leonard N. Stern School

of Business and a J.D. from Boston University School of Law, and a B.A. from Oberlin College.


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Virat Bhatia, President, IEA, AT&T South Asia & Chairman FICCI Communications &

Digital Economy Committee

Mr. Bhatia serves as President, IEA, for AT&T in South Asia. He has

responsibility for supporting all of AT&Ts businesses, corporate development

activities, new investments and business strategies. He has been involved

with Indias digital economy sector since 1994. During this period he hasbeen engaged with efforts to build out Indias first mobile (1995) and internet

(1999) infrastructure, which currently serves 850 million mobile subscribers,

nearly 205 million internet users, of which 100 million are active on social

media. He has been associated with the evolution of three National Telecom

Policies - 1994, 1999 and 2012as well as Indias communications

legislation - the TRAI Act 1997.

Mr. Bhatia also serves as Chairman of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry

(FICCI) Communications and Digital Economy Committee. He currently leads the combined

advocacy and policy reform efforts of nearly 150 members - representing mobile operators, domestic

and long distance providers, ISPs, internet companies, social media, infrastructure providers, mobiledevice manufacturers, consultants, legal experts and related stakeholders in Indias ICT space.

FICCI, Indias largest apex business organization, is regarded as the voice of Indian business and

industry, with international linkages with over 200 industry chambers globally.

His main area of work remains public policy, economic and regulatory reforms, with a special focus

on Access & Diversity, Emerging Issues, Multistakeholderism, Enhanced Cooperation and Cyber

Security. He currently represents the private sector, as one of the 5 members, on the UN

Commission on Science and Technology for Development (UN-CSTD), Working Group on Enhanced

Cooperation (WGEC). In 2014 he was appointed to the IGF MAG. In 2012, he represented the

private sector at the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT), hosted by ITU,

in Dubai. He also serves as a member of the India MAG, and on several joint working groups

involving the government and private sector in India, and co-authored the Guidelines for Protection of

National Critical Information Infrastructure, released by the India NSA in 2013. He has attended all

IGFs on site or as a remote contributor since 2008. He has been instrumental in hosting several

successful international Internet Governance, Cyber Security and Digital Economy conferences and

dialogues with government, think-tanks and multistakeholder groups in India.

A frequent speaker at national and global ICT events, Mr. Bhatia is an alumnus of J F Kennedy

School, Harvard University, USA. He holds a Bachelors degree in Economics and a Masters degree

in Business Administration and has received Advanced Executive education at The Wharton

Business School, Pennsylvania, and Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Chicago.


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Ambassador David Gross, Partner, Wiley Rein LLP; Chair, ICT Committee, United

States Council for International Business (USCIB)

Ambassador David A. Gross, former U.S. Coordinator for International

Communications and Information Policy at the U.S. Department of State, is

chair of Wiley Reins International Telecommunications Practice. One of the

worlds foremost experts on international telecommunications, he has

addressed the United Nations (UN) General Assembly and led more U.S.

delegations to major international telecommunication conferences than anyone

in modern history.At Washington, DC-based Wiley Rein, Ambassador Gross

draws on his more than 25 years of experience as a global policy maker and

corporate executive to assist U.S. companies seeking to enter or expand

international businesses, as well as non-U.S. companies and organizations

seeking to invest in, monitor and understand the U.S. market. He also advises foreign companies on

non-U.S. countries and opportunities and informs clients regarding the International

Telecommunication Union (ITU), Organization for Economic Cooperation Development (OECD), Asia

Pacific Economic Cooperative (APEC) and other international bodies.

During his tenure at the State Department (2001-2009), Ambassador Gross had overall responsibility

for the formulation and advocacy of international communications policy for the United States. Prior to

this position, he served as Washington counsel to AirTouch Communications (now Vodafone), then

the worlds largest wireless telecommunications company. He was in private law practice from 1979

to 1993.

Ambassador Gross received his J.D. from Columbia Law School and his B.A. from the University of

Pennsylvania.


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Ilham A. Habibie, Chair, ICC BASIS

Mr. Ilham Habibie is the Chair of ICC BASIS since June 2014. Mr. Habibie is the

Chairman of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KADIN)

Committee for Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and the Committee for

Research and Technology. Founder of the Human Resource Development in

Science and Technology Division of the Habibie Foundation, Mr. Habibie is also

Chair of the Board of Trustees at the International University Liaison Indonesia

Foundation and at Indonesia's national information and communication

technology (ICT) Council (DeTikNas).

Mr. Habibie obtained a degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the Technische Universitt Munich,

Germany, and a MBA from the Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago Singapore

Campus.


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Zahid Jamil, Head of Chambers, Jamil & Jamil, Barristers-at-law

Zahid qualified as a Barrister from GraysInn and is currently practicing law

in Pakistan specializing in Corporate and Commercial law, Technology,

IPR, Litigation and, ADR. As the Chair of the Centre for Strategic and Policy

Analysis initiative Developing Countries Centre for Cyber Crime Law

(DC4Law) and expert consultant to the Council of Europe he provideslegislative assistance to developing countries with respect to Cybercrime

legislation and has provided analysis and commentary on cybercrime

legislation for the Maldives, Tanzania, Ghana, Dominica, Jamaica, Uganda and Kenya. He drafted

the Electronic Transactions Ordinance 2002, assisted the drafting of the Payment Systems and

Electronic Funds Transfer Act, 2007. He recently drafted Pakistans Cybercrime legislation the

Prevention of Electronic Crimes Bill and is also consulting with the Commonwealth for a global

Cybercrime Initiative. As a CEDR Accredited Mediator Teacher Trainer he is involved in Mediating

disputes and is the founding Chairman of the Domain Name Dispute Resolution Center which deals

with domain name disputes under the .pk ccTLD.

Currently he serves on the Advisory Board of the .pk ccTLD (PKNIC), the Board of ICCs Pakistan

National Committee and Chairperson the EBITT Commission, Chairs the Joint Legal Working Group

of AFACT, and Cybersecurity Advisory Committee of the Federal Investigation Agency. He serves on

the Multistakeholder Advisory Group to the UN Secretary General and served on ICANNs GNSO as

the Business Constituencys elected representative to the Council for two consecutive terms. As a

member of ICANNs new gTLD Implementation Recommendations Team and the Special Trademark

Issues Working Group he advocated for greater protection for brand owners and businesses in the

new gTLD Rights Protection Mechanisms. He also actively represented business at the Internet

governance principles discussion at the Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet

Governance (NETmundial) in Sao Paulo, Brazil.


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Eric H. Loeb, Vice President, International External Affairs, AT&T

Eric H. Loeb is responsible for supporting AT&Ts international external affairs

team. AT&T is a premier global communications company, providing wholesale

services and mobile roaming services to over 220 countries and territories, and

providing business enterprise services to countries representing over 99 percent

of the worlds economy.

In addition to implementing market access and compliance strategies to enable

AT&Ts global expansion, other responsibilities for Mr.Loeb include advocacy

on policy matters related to the stable growth, investment and innovation by the

digital economy sector. His work matches the diversity of the AT&T portfolio across fixed and mobile

broadband platforms, and including emerging machine-to-machine technologies.

Mr. Loeb is based in AT&Ts Washington DC office. He is an active member in several industry and

community organizations, including current service as Chair of the International Chamber of

Commerce Task Force on the Internet and Telecommunications (Paris), Board Member of the USTelecommunications Training Institute (DC), and Member of the US State Department Advisory

Committee on International Communications and Information Policy.

Prior to joining AT&T in 2002, Mr. Loeb had been the Global Regulatory Counsel for Concert

Communications, and prior to that, the US Regulatory Counsel for British Telecommunications plc.

He started his career at Hogan & Hartson L.L.P., after graduating with honors from the Georgetown

University Law Center, and with honors from Bowdoin College. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland with

his wife and two children.


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Robert Pepper, Vice President, Global Technology Policy, Cisco

Robert Pepper leads Ciscos Global Technology Policy team working with

governments across the world in areas such as broadband, IP enabled

services, wireless and spectrum policy, security, privacy, Internet governance

and ICT development.

He joined Cisco in July 2005 from the FCC where he served as Chief of theOffice of Plans and Policy and Chief of Policy Development beginning in 1989

where he led teams developing policies promoting the development of the

Internet, implementing telecommunications legislation, planning for the

transition to digital television, and designing and implementing the first U.S. spectrum auctions.

He serves on the board of the U.S. Telecommunications Training Institute (USTTI) and advisory

boards for Columbia University and Michigan State University, and is a Communications Program

Fellow at the Aspen Institute. He is a member of the U.S. Department of Commerces Spectrum

Management Advisory Committee, the UKs Ofcom Spectrum Advisory Board and the U.S.

Department of States Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy

Pepper received his BA. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.


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Jacquelynn Ruff, Vice President, International Public Policy and Regulatory Affairs,

Verizon Communications

Jacquelynn (Jackie) Ruff is Vice PresidentInternational Public Policy and

Regulatory Affairs for Verizon Communications. In addition to being a

leading communications provider in the U.S., Verizon provides voice, data,

and Internet services to customers in more than 150 countries. Ms. Ruff

leads the group that is responsible for public policy development, advocacy,

and guidance around international issues. She works with various businessunits to develop and implement public policy and regulatory strategy and is

responsible for advocacy within U.S. and international forums, such as the

International Telecommunication Union, the OECD, and APEC. She

represents Verizon as a member of federal advisory committees to the U.S.

Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy at the

Department of State and to the U.S. Trade Representative, and she is a member of the Board of the

U.S. Telecom Training Institute.

Ms. Ruff joined Verizon in March 2004 from the International Bureau of the Federal Communications

Commission (FCC), where she was Associate Chief and Chief of Staff for the Bureau. Before joining

the FCC, Ms. Ruff practiced law with the communications and the Latin America groups of an

international law firm. She also served on the staff of a United States Senate Committee. Ms. Ruff

holds a JD from the Georgetown University Law Center, a Masters degree from Harvard University

and a Bachelors degree from Radcliffe College/Harvard University.

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